WiSe MANet Lab - News and Announcements

• I was selected a First Tennessee Entrepreneurship and Innovation Fellow by the First Tennessee Foundation for 2010-2011.

• NIH awarded two new competitive supplements to the AutoSense project. One supplement supports the integration of a new alcohol sensor from Giner Inc. called WrisTAS onto the arm band of the AutoSense wearable sensor suite, the other supplement is supporting the validation of in the illicit drug abuse population as part of the ongoing EXACT study at NIDA Intramural Research Program in Baltimore.

• We are looking a third postdoctoral fellow to lead the efforts of students and postdocs working on both the AutoSense and FieldStream projects that together span 8 institutions. 

• Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Raij. He will be joining University of South Florida as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Jan 2011. He joined us in 2009 as a postdoctoral fellow and has since been coordinating both the AutoSense and FieldStream projects.

• I am co-chairing the Wireless Networks and Emerging Technologies Track of the 31st IEEE ICCCN Conference in 2010. 

• A demo for the first version of our AutoWitness burglar tracking system will be hosted at the SenSys 2009 conference. We also had one paper accepted at Infocom 2010 and two papers accepted in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) in 2009.

• In Sep 2009, we received a new large ($2.7 million) collaborative project from the National Science Foundation (as part of the Network Science and Engineering program) called "FieldStream" to develop a data management framework for personal sensor networks that are deployed for exposure biology studies in natural environments of human participants. The project brings together nine faculty members from six universities (CMU, Georgia Tech, UMass, UCLA, Minnesota, and Memphis (lead)) who possess expertise spanning various relevant disciplines in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Psychology.

• In Sep 2009, we received a new one year collaborative project from the National Institutes of Health (as a supplement to our existing AutoSense project) called "Personalized Stress Inferencing" to develop a new machine learning based system for personalized inferencing of perceived psychosocial stress in natural environments of human participants. The project brings together seven faculty members from five universities (CMU, Pittsburgh, Ohio State, Minnesota, and Memphis) who possess expertise spanning various relevant disciplines in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Behavioral Science, Physiology, and Psychology.

• Dr. Andrew Raij a recent graduate of the University of Florida joined WiSe MANet Lab as our second postdoctoral fellow. Our first postdoctoral fellow Dr. Kurt Plarre who joined us in Fall 2008 continues to work with us. Dr. Plarre received his Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in Eletrical and Computer Engineering.

• Dr. Kumar gave an invited talk on the AutoSense project at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (1/12/09).

• Three papers from WiSe MANet Lab will appear in INFOCOM 2009 (one in the main conference and two in the miniconference).

• Fox13 TV News Channel Featured a story on AutoWitness. Here is a link to the TV clip and link to a recent video produced by the university's marketing department. The story on AutoWitness appears here.

• Dr. Santosh Kumar has been awarded an Early Career Research Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Memphis.

• Dr. Santosh Kumar gave an invited talk at the First IEEE Workshop on the Theory of Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (ThASN'08) in Atlanta on September 29th on the derivation of reliable density estimates.

• WiSe MANet Lab sweeps University Research Forum awards in the Graduate Category. See here for details.

• Dr. Prasant Mohapatra, Professor & Chair of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis visits WiSe MANet Lab. See the announcement for his Colloquium talk.

• Dr. Samir R. Das, an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Stony Brook University visits WiSe MANet Lab. See the announcement for his Colloquium talk.

• Dr. Violet Syrotiuk, an Associate Professor in School of Computing and Informatics at the Arizona State University visits WiSe MANet Lab. See the announcement for his Colloquium talk.

• Multiple new GRA positions are available at the WiSe MANet Lab to work on exciting new wireless sensor network applications (in both theory and systems) as part of federally funded long-term projects. These positions are mostly available for ambitious Ph.D. students. Exceptional Masters students will be considered.

• Dr. Kumar visited Georgia Tech (10/17/2007) and Clemson University (11/9/2007) to give a talk titled "Coverage and Connectivity in Wireless Networks: the Journey from Percolation to Reliable Density Estimates". An abstract of the talk can be found here. The slides of the talk (at Clemson) can be found here.

• Dr. Jun (Jim) Xu, an Associate Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology visits WiSe MANet Lab. See the announcement for his Colloquium talk.

• NSF awards a collaborative grant to study coverage and connectivity issues in thin deployment regions.

• NSF awards a collaborative grant for our AutoWitness project.

• NIH awards a collaborative grant for our AutoSense project. See the press release by NIH, the press release by the University of Memphis. The local press seems to be quite interested in this project. The Memphis Business Journal ran two articles on it (announcement, full story).  Memphis Daily News also ran a story on AutoSense.

• Multiple new GRA positions are available at the WiSe MANet Labs to work on exciting new wireless sensor network applications (in both theory and systems) as part of federally funded long-term projects. These positions are mostly available for ambitious Ph.D. students. Exceptional Masters students may be considered.

• Two of our papers were accepted in the ACM MobiCom 2007 Conference. (See the publication listing for details.)

• Our AutoSense project was the feature article of Center for Community Health's Spring/Summer 2007 newsletter. (Read more)

• Undergraduate and graduate students demonstrate their wireless sensor network class projects that was carried out as part of the TAF SIST grant that was awarded to us. (See the video)

• WiSeMANets labs grad students win first prize on Annual CS Research Day held at the University of Memphis. They demonstrated a preliminary version of the AutoWitness system. (Read More)

• Wireless Sensor Network technology is being introduced in several Computer Science courses (Operating Systems, Networking and Information Assurance, and Programming Languages) as part of new TAF SIST grant that was awarded to Dr. Santosh Kumar (PI), Dr. Lan Wang, and Dr. Qishi Wu at the University of Memphis.