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Archived News
12/2021
Honored to serve on the ACM MobiSys 2022 TPC! Submit your best work by Dec 20th, 2022!
12/2021
Overview paper on our journey of designing a security and privacy "nutrition label" for IoT devices is accepted to IEEE S&P Magazine ! Congrats Pardis and Janarth.
11/2021
Paper on understanding the challenges developers face when creating accurate privacy nutrition lables is accepted to ACM CHI 2022! Congratulations Tianshi and Kayla!
9/2021
Paper on Marble, on Collaborative Scheduling of Batteryless Sensors with Meta Reinforcement Learning, is accepted to ACM BuildSys 2021 ! Congratulations Francesco, Bharath and Dezhi!
9/2021
Bharathan Balaji (Now at Amazon) wrote a nice article on some of our early work on sensing, control and ML in smart Buildings. Keep up the good work Bharath! [Amazon Science Blog
Post].
8/2021
Tianshi Li wins one of the CyLab
Presidential Fellowships! Congratulations Tianshi!
7/2021
Our paper on creating a tool `Honeysuckle' for Annotation-Guided Code Generation of In-App Privacy Notices is accepted
Ubicomp (IMWUT) 2021.
Congratulations Tianshi!
6/2021
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) drafted a
White Paper exploring mechanisms to establish confidence in IoT device security and proposed IoT labels as a
potential method. Our
response to their RFC and our
IoT Label Design .
6/2021
Our paper stuying the factors that make people install a COVID-19 contact tracing app has been accepted to
Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) 2021.
Congratulations Tianshi, Camille, Sagar, Jackie!
5/2021
Our paper on Capture: Centralized Library Management for Heterogeneous IoT Devices has been accepted to
USENIX Security 2021. Congratulations Han and Abhijith!
4/2021
Our paper on Smart Traffic Lights Optimization was accepted to the
2021 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things.
Congratulations Prasoon!
3/2021
Now that the Brick Schema consortium has been formed, the momentum continues. Erik Paulson (JCI) has written a great post
on Medium
comparing BRICK with Haystack.. Similarly, BRICK is covered on another blog: Stacey on IoT . Check it
out!
2/2021
Our paper studying the attributes on a IoT Security privacy label that affect consumers risk perception and their
willingness to purchase has been accepted to Oakland
(S&P) 2021. Congratulations Pardis and Janarth!
1/2021
MLIoT, our ML System for closely coupled training and serving tasks for IoT Settings is accepted to
IoTDI 2021. Congratulations Sudershan, Anurag and Prahal!
1/2021
Congratulations Aqsa Kashaf on winning the IETF Applied Networking Research Prize for
2021 for our IMC 2020 work on charactering the 3rd party dependencies on the Web!
12/2020
ClassGaze paper accepted to ACM CHI 2021 ! ClassGaze cpntinues to build on
our EduSense classroom sensing infrastructure, providing a preview of the classroom
digital-twin idea our team is working on. Congrats Karan, Deval and the whole team.
12/2020
The Wall Street Journal covers our IoT Privacy and Security Label work!
[Wall Street Journal] .
[Local Copy] .
[CMU-Version].
11/2020
Our IMC paper on analyzing 3rd party depencies in the Web is getting some press!
[ZDNET] .
[Times Hub] .
[HelpNet Security .
[TechXplore] .
11/2020
Demo abstract paper for Vista is accepted to ACM BuildSys 2020 . Vista is
a tool to author dynamic, spatial, floorplans for overlaying real time sensor data in Buildings. Congrats Tillie (an
REU student from Swarthmore!) and Sudershan!
11/2020
Our VMCAI paper on creating probabilistic stateful models for networks is accepted! Congratulations Han,Arthur and Chi!
08/2020
Our journal extension of our BRICK+ paper is accepted to the Frontiers of the Built Environment! Congratulations Gabe, Jason, Shreyas and Charlene!
08/2020
Our IMC paper on analyzing the dependecy of the most popular websites on 3rd party DNS, CDN, and OCSP services is accepted! Congratulations Aqsa!
06/2020
WIRED magazine covers our IoT security and Privacy Label work!
[WIRED] .
[Local Archived Copy] .
05/2020
Congratulations Dr. Pardis Emami-Naeni on defending your PhD!
Awesome job! Pardis joins UW as a Post Doc.
05/2020
Our paper on ACES, a Reinforcement Learning based approach towards energy harvesting based sensors is accepted to
TOSN'20! Congratulations Francesco and Bharath!
05/2020
Our IoT Security/Privacy Labels website includes a Label Generator - check it out. Well done Shreyas and Pardis!
03/2020
Dr. Jason Koh Graduates with a PhD! Congratulations Jason! Jason joins a Building Metadata related startup.
01/2020
Our paper on Experts weighing in on the content of IoT Security/Privacy labels is accepted to Oakland S&P 2020. Congratulations Pardis! Our project website is
now online at: IoT Security Privacy
09/2019
Dohyun presented EduSense at Ubicomp 2019 in London. EduSense.io website is live and Code is on EduSense @ GitHub.
08/2019
Two papers accepted to ACM BuildSys 2019 . BRICK+, and a systematic study
of security and access control in Smart Building Apps. Congratulations Jason, Gabe, Shreyas, Sudershan!
7/2019
Our Paper on Bulding the Classroom sensing fabric of the future to smart clasrooms -- EduSense -- is accepted to IMWUT/Ubicomp'19. Congratulations Dohyun, Karan,
Franceska, and the entire ClassInsight team!
3/2019
Paper on Encouraging Energy Feedback at Work is accepted to Energy Policy 2019. Congratulations Gabrielle and Josh!
01/2019
I was interviewed by PCMag for their
Futures Article, on technology in 2039. A number of interesting perspectives. Check it out!
12/2018
Paper on the Implications of Privacy and Security on IoT Device Purchases accepted to ACM CHI '19. Congratulations Pardis!
11/2018
Paper on Extracting Knowledge from Smartphone Push Notifications accepted to IEEE BigData '18). Congratulations Yuanchun!
10/2018
Two papers accepted to ACM IMWUT'18 (Ubicomp'19): Autopurpose and Coconut!
Congratulations Haojian and Tianshi!
09/2018
Project on Building End-to-End support for Privacy in the Internet-of-Things is Awarded! Thank you NSF!
(Award: #1801472).
08/2018
Project on Sensei - Building a Smart Classroom using sensing, computer vision, machine learning is Awarded!Thank you NSF!
(Award: #1822813).
07/2018
Three papers accepted to ACM BuildSys 2018 . Scrabble, Plaster and Pible!
Congratulations Jason, Bharath, Francesco!
03/2018
Our Applied Energy 2018 Collaborative journal paper on BRICK, the metadata
schema for Smart Buildings is now online!
09/2017
Our ASE 2017 paper on Transfer Learning for Performance Modeling of Configurable Systems is now online!
08/2017
Our Ubicomp 2017 paper on Library Based Privacy Protection using ProtectMyPrivacy is now online!
08/2017
Our Ubicomp 2017 paper on PrivacyStreams: a new way of developing privacy aware Mobile Apps is now online!
07/2017
Our ACM TOIS 2017 paper on Understanding the Purpose of Permissions use in Apps is now online!
08/2016
Our BuildSys 2016 paper on BRICK: a unified metadata schema for
Buildings is now online!
07/2016
Our Ubicomp 2016 paper on GENIE: a 2 year study on Hardware/Software
Thermostat usage in Buildings is now online!
06/2016
Project on Handling Trillions of Flaws on Billions of Internet-of-Things Awarded! Thank you NSF!
(Award: #1564009).
06/2016
Our USENIX SOUPS'16 paper just won the IAPP SOUPS Privacy
Award! [PHOTO] Congratulations Bin, Hazim, Mads and Florian!
![[PHOTO]](docs/IAPP-7950.jpg){kind=link}
06/2016
Our USENIX SOUPS'16 paper on the various factors affecting
privacy policies and notices and their efficacy is online!
06/2016
Our USENIX SOUPS'16 paper showing how privacy assistants
help users manage privacy on SmartPhones is online!
05/2016
Two papers accepted accepted to SOUPS'16.
Congratulations Joshua, Florian, Bin, Mads, Hazim!
03/2016
Our IEEE Computer invited paper outlining our vision in the GioTTO IoT Expedition is now online.
02/2016
Received a Google Faculty Research Award for our work on Mobile Privacy! Thank you Google!
10/2015
Our IoT Security Vision paper accepted to HotNets 2015. Congratulations Tianlong Yu, Vyas Sekar and Srini Seshan.
09/2015
Zodiac paper accepted to BuildSys 2015. Congratulations Bharath, Chetan, and Murali!
09/2015
Project on Managing the Complexity of IoT/Smart Building Deployments Awarded! Thank you NSF!
(Award ID: #1526237).
09/2015
Project on Developing Personalized Privacy Assistants Awarded! Thank you NSF (Award: #1513957).
07/2015
New DARPA Project on Privacy and Security in the Mobile/IoT space has been awarded as part of the BRANDEIS Program!
07/2015
Special thanks to Google for funding our
IoT Expeditions at CMU to build out the system stack for the Internet of Things!!
02/2015
Rahul Mangharam @ UPenn and I are serving as TPC Co-chairs for BuildSys 2015. Submit your best work!
12/2014
Our CHI 2015 paper on
Privacy Nudges to improve user awareness on Smartphones is online! Congrats Hazim, Florian, Joshua!
10/2014
Serving on the Program Committee for MobiSys 2015 . Submit your best work!
09/2014
New PhD Student Joshua Gluck joines the SynergyLab @ CMU. Welcome Josh!
09/2014
Karthick Rajamani and I are serving as TPC Co-chairs for USENIX
HotPower 2014. We have an exciting program including two Keynotes -- Victor Bahl from MSR and Charlie Hu from Purdue! Don't miss out -- Register!
08/2014
WattShare and Model, Cluster and Compare (MCC)
papers accepted to ACM BuildSys 2014!. Demo Abstract
for BuildingSherlock also accepted! Congratulations Shailja, Manaswi, Amarjeet, Murali, Bharath, Rizhen and Yan!
07/2014
Serving on the TPC of IPSN 2015 in Seattle. Submit your best work!
05/2014
Co-organizing the Data Aware Energy Use Workshop
at UCSD/La Jolla in September 2014. Submit your Abstracts to attend.
04/2014
EnergyLens paper accepted to ACM E-Energy 2014! Congratulations Manaswi, Shailja, Amarjeet for a good collaboration!
01/2014
Serving as the TPC Co-chair with Lin Zhong for the ACM MCS Workshop 2014. Submit your best work!
09/2013
Two papers accepted to BuildSys 2013! Congratulations Anthony, Bharathan, Hitedoshi and Thomas!
08/2013
The SYNERGY lab moves to Carnegie Mellon University!
07/2013
"Sentinel: An Occupancy Based HVAC Actuation System using Existing WiFi Infrastructure in Commercial Buildings" is
accepted to SenSys 2013!
03/2013
"ProtectMyPrivacy: Detecting and Mitigating Privacy Leaks on iOS Devices
using Crowdsourcing" is accepted to MobiSys 2013!
01/2013
Finally completed a re-design of my homepage. Thanks Thomas Weng for all the help!
01/2013
ProtectMyPrivacy: Now protecting the privacy of 90,000+ users on iOS from Apps that access private user data. Uses crowdsourcing for privacy recommendations!
01/2013
Serving on the TPC of ACM SenSys 2013 in Rome, Italy. [CFP]
09/2012
Variability Expeditions overview Journal paper "Underdesigned and Opportunistic Computing in Presence of Hardware Variability" is accepted to TCAD!
09/2012
Paper on "BuildingDepot: An Extensible and Distributed Architecture for Building Data Storage, Access and Sharing" is accepted to ACM BuildSys 2012 in Toronto, CA.
08/2012
Paper on "Characterizing the Variability in Power Consumption for Modern x86 Processors" is accepted to HotPower 2012 in Hollywood, CA.
08/2012
Paper on "Verifying Android Apps for the Absence of WakeLock Energy Bugs" is accepted to HotPower 2012 in Hollywood, CA.
04/2012
04/2012
Paper on "From Buildings to Smart Buildings -- Sensing and Actuation to Improve Energy Efficiency" has been accepted to IEEE Design and Test!
02/2012
Paper on "Verifying GPU Kernels by Test Amplification" accepted to
PLDI 2012 in Beijing, China!
01/2012
Serving on the TPC for ICCCN
2012, Networking for Sustainability, Reliability, and Energy
Efficiency
(NSRE) track. Due date Feb 24th, 2012. Plase submit! [CFP
12/2011
Anand Raghunathan and I are Guest Editors for the
IEEE
Design and Test (D&T) Special Issue on Green Buildings to appear
July/Aug 2012. Please submit![CFP]
09/2011
Paper on "Managing Plug-Loads for Demand Response within Buildings",
is accepted to BuildSys 2011
in Seattle.
03/2011
Our paper on "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Model-Based Power
Characterization", is accepted to
USENIX ATC 2011!
03/2011
Serving on the TPC of ACM
BuildSys 2011, co-located with SenSys in Seattle [CFP]
02/2011
Serving on the TPC of
HotPower
2011, co-located with SOSP in Portugal [CFP]
01/2011
Our paper on "'Duty-Cycling Buildings Aggressively: The Next
Frontier in HVAC Control" has been accepted to
IPSN/SPOTS 2011!
01/2011
Serving on the TPC of the IEEE/SIGDA International Conference on
Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS 2011)
10/2010
Serving on the TPC of the 20th International
Conference on Computer Communication (ICCCN
2011), Energy Efficient Networking track. [CFP]
09/2010
Our paper on "Occupancy Driven HVAC managent for Smart Buildings" is accepted to BuildSys 2010, co-located with SenSys 2010.
09/2010
08/2010
Energy Dashboard and SleepServers covered in the
San Diego Business Journal.
08/2010
My first NSF proposal (with Sorin Lerner) has been awarded!
06/2010
I was awarded one of the Von-Liebig Center award to commercialize
SleepServers! [JSOE
Release] [San
Diego Mayor's office]
06/2010
Presented SleepServers at USENIX and it has been getting a lot of
press! [Release
JSOE,
Calit2][MIT
Tech Review] [NSF
News] [Comm.
of the ACM] [SDBJ]
[IBTimes]
[Gigmag]
[RDMag]
[ScienceCodex]
and lots of others!
03/2010
he Energy Dashboard that allows visualization of the entire UCSD
campus energy usage, a detailed breakdown of the CSE building,
and also monitor individual PCs energy usage that are using
Somniloquy and SleepServers is now live:
http://energy.ucsd.edu
03/2010
Our "SleepServer" paper is accepted to
USENIX 2010. I will
present it in Boston in June!!!
03/2010
Our
paper on CyberPhsyical systems focusing on Smart Buildings to appear
at DAC in June 2010!
01/2010
Serving on the Program Committee of
IEEE International Green Computing
Conference [CFP],
Papers due April 7th 2010.
01/2010
Serving as the Poster and Demo Co-Chair for
ACM
MobiHeld 2010. Please submit demo proposals and posters! [Details
Here]
12/2009
I have graduated and joined the CSE department at UC San Diego as a
Research Scientist.
09/2009
Our Energy Dashboard paper is accepted
to ACM-BuildSys '09.
09/2009
Filed all my PhD thesis paperwork. I have graduated! :-)
08/2009
07/2009
Gave my first
keynote at the UCSD LISA
'09 conference - It was an honor!
05/2009
Somniloquy mentioned as one of the "20
kick-ass network research projects" of the Year by NetworkWorld.com!
05/2009
Somniloquy"
has been getting a lot of Press!!
04/2009
NetworkWorld,
Engadget,
Gizmodo, Slashdot,
Times of India, Hindu and lots of others [click
for entire list]!
04/2009
01/2009
I
got married in India to my wonderful wife, Gunjan! Wedding photos to be posted
soon!
12/2008
06/2008
Our "SwitchR"
paper accepted to ISWC 2008!
02/2008
09/2007
Started part-time
consulting for a local San Diego based startup company --
AVAAK! I will be working on designing a new architecture for their low
power wireless sensor network.
04/2007
Got an offer from
Microsoft Research,
Cambridge, UK to spend the summer with them !! I will be working with Steve
Hodges (MSR-C), Ranveer
Chandra (Redmond) and Victor
Bahl (Redmond) ! Yea!!
04/2007
"Cell2Notify" demo proposal
accepted at
Mobisys 2007 -- Please stop by if you are attending !
03/2007
Our Wireless Wakeups
Revisited: Energy Management for VoIP over a WiFi enabled Smartphone paper got accepted to
Mobisys 2007
!!! I will be headed to Puerto Rico in June to present it ! Yea !!
01/2007
Our
proposal for a workshop (MobiEval
2007) got accepted -- the workshop is co-located with
Mobisys '07. I am co-chairing the workshop along with Trevor Pering
and Mark Corner. The CFP can be found
here.
09/2006
Back from my Internship @ Microsoft
Research, Redmond. I had a fantastic summer there and met some amazing researchers ! Seattle is an awesome
place (especially in summer) !!
06/2006
ack from trip to Europe
to present "CoolSpots" at Mobisys (Uppsala). Also
presented my research at INRIA, Rennes.
05/2006
Got an offer from
Microsoft Research to come up and
work with them in Seattle !! I will be working in the
Networking Research
Group @ MSR (Redmond) with Ranveer
Chandra and Victor Bahl !
03/2006
Successfully passed my PhD research exam!
03/2006
Our "CoolSpots" paper
got accepted at Mobisys 2006! I will get to go to Sweden in June to present it ! yea!
01/2006
Finished my stint at Intel Research in
the bay area. I was there all of Summer and Fall 2005 ! I was working with the
Intel Ubiquity
Group under the guidance of
Roy Want and
Trevor Pering.