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Aman Kansal

RESEARCHER, Networked Embedded Computing Group.
address: Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052
tel: 425-707-6931
email: kansal (at) microsoft com

Projects

Publications

2008

  • Aman Kansal and Feng Zhao, "Fine-Grained Energy Profiling for Power-Aware Application Design," ACM Sigmetrics First Workshop on Hot Topics in Measurement & Modeling of Computer Systems (HotMetrics08), June 6, 2008, Annapolis, MD, USA.[pdf]
  • Andreas Krause, Eric Horvitz, Aman Kansal, and Feng Zhao, "Toward Community Sensing," ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), April 22-24, 2008, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.[pdf]
  • Bodhi Priyantha, Aman Kansal, Michel Goraczko, and Feng Zhao, "Tiny Web Services for Sensor Device Interoperability, " ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Demo Abstract, April 22-24, 2008, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.[pdf]
  • Ameesh Pandya, Aman Kansal, and Greg Pottie, "Goodput And Delay In Networks With Controlled Mobility," IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 1-8, 2008, Big Sky, MT.

2007

  • Aman Kansal, Jason Hsu, Sadaf Zahedi, and Mani B Srivastava, "Power Management in Energy Harvesting Sensor Networks," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. Vol. 6, No. 4, December 2007. [pdf]
  • Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, "SenseWeb: An Infrastructure for Shared Sensing," IEEE Multimedia. Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 8-13, October-December 2007. [pdf]
  • Aman Kansal, William Kaiser, Greg Pottie, Mani B Srivastava, and Gaurav Sukhatme, "Reconfiguration Methods for Mobile Sensor Networks," ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. Vol. 3, No. 4, October 2007. [pdf]
  • Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, and Feng Zhao, "SenseWeb: Shared Macro-scopes for Scientific Exploration," Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI, October 21-23, 2007, The Rennaissance Computing Institute, Chapel Hill, NC.
  • Aman Kansal, "Low Complexity Robotic Motion for High Resolution Sensing," Robotics Science and Systems Conference 2007 Workshop on Robotic Sensor Networks: Principles and Practice, June 30, 2007, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  • Aman Kansal, "SenseWeb: A Shared Infrastructure for Internet-scale Sensing," Keynote at International Workshop on SensorWebsDatabases and Mining in Networked Sensing Systems (SWDMNSS 2007), SWDMNSS is held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2007) Braunschweig, Germany, June 6, 2007. [slides] [audio (over video conference)]
  • Aman Kansal and Feng Zhao, "Location and Mobility in a Sensor Network of Mobile Phones," ACM SIGMM 17th International workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio & Video (NOSSDAV), June 4-5, 2007, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. [pdf] [slides] [audio]
  • Tarek Abdelzaher, Yaw Anokwa, Peter Boda, Jeff Burke, Deborah Estrin, Leonidas Guibas, Aman Kansal, Sam Madden, and Jim Reich, " Mobiscopes for Human Spaces," IEEE Pervasive Computing, April-June 2007. [pdf]
  • Aman Kansal, "Wireless Sensor Networks: New Capabilities and Potentials," Invited talk, First International Workshop on Agent Technology in Sensor Networks, A workshop of the 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-07), May 14, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii. [slides] [audio]
  • Aman Kansal, Jie Liu, and Suman Nath. "SensorMap and Toolkit Tutorial," colocated with Information Processing in sensor Networks (IPSN), April 28, 2007, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • Aman Kansal, Michel Goraczko, and Feng Zhao, " Building a Sensor Network of Mobile Phones," Information Processing in sensor Networks (IPSN), April 25-27, 2007, Cambridge, MA, USA. [abstract]
  • Suman Nath and Aman Kansal, "FlashDB: Dynamic Self Tuning Database for NAND Flash," Information Processing in sensor Networks (IPSN), April 25-27, 2007, Cambridge, MA, USA. [pdf]
  • Aman Kansal, " Hands On 2: Publishing Through SensorMap API's." Microsoft Academic Days on Windows and Embedded Computing at Arizona State University, Mar 15-17, Tempe, AZ, USA.
  • Aman Kansal and Feng Zhao, "Planetary Scale Audio-Visual Sensor Network," Microsoft Location Summit, March 5, 2007, Redmond, WA, USA. [slides]

2006

  • Aman Kansal, William Kaiser, Greg Pottie, Mani Srivastava, and Gaurav Sukhatme, "Virtual High Resolution for Sensor Networks," ACM SenSys, November 1-3, 2006, Boulder, CO. [pdf]
  • Aman Kansal, Lin Xiao, and Feng Zhao, "Relevance Metrics for Coverage Extension Using Community Collected Cell-phone Camera Imagery," ACM SenSys Workshop on World-Sensor-Web: Mobile Device Centric Sensor Networks and Applications, October 31, 2006, Boulder, CO. [pdf]
  • Jason Hsu, Sadaf Zahedi, Aman Kansal, Mani B Srivastava, "Adaptive Duty Cycling for Energy Harvesting Systems," ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), October 4-6, 2006, Tegernsee, Germany. [doc]
  • Arun A Somasundara, Aman Kansal, David Jea, Deborah Estrin, Mani B Srivastava, "Controllably Mobile Infrastructure for Low Energy Embedded Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) , August 2006. [pdf]
  • Aman Kansal, Jason Hsu, Mani B Srivastava, Vijay Raghunathan, "Harvesting Aware Power Management for Sensor Networks," 43rd Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 24-28, 2006, San Fransisco, CA. [pdf]

2005 and earlier

Professional Contributions

Awards and Honors
  • Outstanding PhD Award, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles.
  • ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronic Design (ISLPED) 2005 Low Power Design Contest Award.
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor, UCLA-NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing 2003 Undergraduate Research Experience.
  • First Prize, BzzWings - Entrepreneurship Competition, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, 2002.
  • Innovation Award, at IEEE Computer Society International Design Competition 2001, Washington DC.


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