Researcher

Networked Embedded Computing Group

Microsoft Research
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052 (map it)

tel: 425-706-8072
fax: 425-936-7329

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Recent Projects:

DataCAM: Collection, Archival, and Mining of massive datasets (e.g., search logs, data-center traces, sensor data)
SenseWeb: Participatory sensing on the Web
Florage: Database algorithms for flash memory
DCGenome: Using sensing to understand and optimize data-center operations

Best Paper Awards:

Best Paper, 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2008
Best Paper, 3rd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2006
Best Paper, 1st Workshop on Broadband Advanced Sensor Networks (BaseNets), 2004

Selected Publications: (See complete list here)

[SIGMOD'10a]	Differentially Private Aggregation of Distributed Time-Series with Transformation and Encryption, Vibhor Rastogi and Suman Nath, ACM SIGMOD 2010
[SIGMOD'10b]	Fast Approximate Correlation for Massive Time-series Data, Abdullah Mueen, Suman Nath, and Jie Liu , ACM SIGMOD 2010
[SIGMOD'10c]	PR-Join: A Non-Blocking Join Achieving Higher Early Result Rate with Statistical Guarantees, Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Suman Nath, ACM SIGMOD 2010
[NSDI'10]	Cheap and Large CAMs for High-performance Data-intensive Networked Systems, Ashok Anand, Chitra Muthukrishnan, Steven Kappes, Aditya Akella , and Suman Nath, USENIX NSDI 2010 [pdf]
[IPSN'10]	On-line Sensing Task Optimization for Shared Sensors, Arsalan Tavakoli, Aman Kansal, and Suman Nath, ACM/IEEE IPSN 2010 [pdf]
[EWSN'10]	Privacy-Preserving Reconstruction of Multidimensional Data Maps in Vehicular Participatory Sensing, Nam Pham Duc, Raghu Kiran Ganti, Md. Yusuf S Uddin, Suman Nath, and Tarek Abdelzaher , EWSN 2010 [pdf]
[VLDB'09]	Managing Massive Time Series Streams with MultiScale Compressed Trickles, Galen Reeves , Jie Liu , Suman Nath, and Feng Zhao, VLDB 2009 [pdf]
[SIGMOD'09a]	Secure Outsourced Aggregation via One-way Chains, Suman Nath, Haifeng Yu, and Haowen Chan, ACM SIGMOD 2009 [pdf]
[SIGMOD'09b]	GAMPS: Compressing Multi Sensor Data by Grouping and Amplitude Scaling, Sorabh Gandhi, Suman Nath, Subhash Suri, and Jie Liu , ACM SIGMOD 2009 [pdf]
[IPSN'09]	Energy Efficient Sensor Data Logging with Amnesic Flash Storage, Suman Nath, ACM/IEEE IPSN 2009 [pdf]
[VLDB'08] [VLDBJ'10]	Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples on Flash Storage, Suman Nath and Phillip B. Gibbons, VLDB 2008 [pdf], VLDB Journal 2010 (special issue of best papers from VLDB 2008)[pdf]
[GIS'08]	Sharing and Exploring Sensor Streams over Geocentric Interfaces, Liqian Luo, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, and Feng Zhao, ACM GIS 2008 [pdf]
[NSDI'08]	Energy-Aware Server Provisioning and Load Dispatching for Connection-Intensive Internet Services, Gong Chen, Wenbo He, Jie Liu , Suman Nath, Leonidas Rigas, Lin Xiao, and Feng Zhao, USENIX NSDI 2008 [pdf]
[ICDE'08]	COLR-Tree: Communication Efficient Spatio-Temporal Index for a Sensor Data Web Portal, Yanif Ahmad and Suman Nath, ICDE 2008, Awarded Best Paper! [pdf]
[TOSN'08] [SenSys'04]	Synopsis Diffusion for Robust Aggregation in Sensor Networks, Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan, and Zachary Anderson, ACM TOSN, Vol 4, No. 2, May 2008 [pdf] (Preliminary version in ACM SenSys 2004 [pdf])
[IPSN'07-a]	Communicating via Fireflies : Geographic Routing on Duty-cycled Nodes, Suman Nath and Phillip B. Gibbons, ACM/IEEE IPSN 2007 [pdf]
[IPSN'07-b]	FlashDB: Dynamic Self-tuning Database for NAND Flash, Suman Nath and Aman Kansal, ACM/IEEE IPSN 2007 [pdf]
[NSDI'06-a]	Subtlties in Tolerating Correlated Failures, Suman Nath, Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Srini Seshan, USENIX NSDI 2006 [pdf]
[NSDI'06-b]	Availability of Multi-object Operations, Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Suman Nath, USENIX NSDI 2006, Awarded Best Paper! [pdf]
[FAST'05]	Adaptive Data Placement for Wide-Area Sensing Services, Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Srinivasan Seshan, USENIX FAST 2005 [pdf]
[SIGMOD'05]	Tributaries and Deltas: Efficient and Robust Aggregation in Sensor Network Streams, Amit Manjhi, Suman Nath, and Phillip B. Gibbons, ACM SIGMOD 2005 [pdf]
[SIGMOD'03]	Cache-and-Query for Wide Area Sensor Databases, Amol Deshpande, Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan, ACM SIGMOD 2003 [pdf]