Welcome
I am a Research Scientist in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. My research interests are at the intersection of Systems and Networking and Embedded Systems, and I am particularly excited about research problems that benefit from using hardware insights to build more scalable and efficient systems.
I am the Director of the Systems Networking and Energy Efficiency - SYNERGY Labs at UCSD, the Executive Director of the NSF Expeditions in Variability, and a member of the Microelectronic Embedded Systems Lab (MESL) and the Systems and Networking Group (SysNet) at UCSD.
What's New
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
Publications
Recent Publications:     
MobiSys'13 | TCAD'12 | BuildSys'12 | HotPower'12 | HotPower'12 | D&T'12 | PLDI'12
MobiSys'13 | TCAD'12 | BuildSys'12 | HotPower'12 | HotPower'12 | D&T'12 | PLDI'12
Selected Publications:
"ProtectMyPrivacy: Detecting and Mitigating Privacy Leaks on iOS Devices Using Crowdsourcing"
ACM MobiSys 2013 -- International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, Taipei, June 2013.
"BuildingDepot: An Extensible and Distributed Architecture for Building Data Storage, Access and Sharing"
ACM BuildSys 2012 -- Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings, Toronto, November 2012.
(Nominated for best paper)
"Duty-Cycling Buildings Aggressively: The Next Frontier in HVAC Control"
IPSN/SPOTS 2011 -- International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Chicago, April 2011.
"SleepServer: A Software-Only Approach for Reducing the Energy Consumption of PCs within Enterprise Environment"
USENIX ATC 2010 -- USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, June 2010.
"Somniloquy: Augmenting Network Interfaces to Reduce PC Energy Usage"
USENIX NSDI 2009 -- USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, April 2009.
"WirelessWakeups Revisited: Energy Management for VoIP over WiFi Smartphones"
MobiSys 2007 -- International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, Puerto Rico, June 2007.
"CoolSpots: Reducing the Power Consumption of Wireless Mobile Devices with Multiple Radio Interfaces"
MobiSys 2006 -- International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, Uppsala, June 2006.
Complete list of Publications....
"ProtectMyPrivacy: Detecting and Mitigating Privacy Leaks on iOS Devices Using Crowdsourcing"
ACM MobiSys 2013 -- International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, Taipei, June 2013.
"BuildingDepot: An Extensible and Distributed Architecture for Building Data Storage, Access and Sharing"
ACM BuildSys 2012 -- Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings, Toronto, November 2012.
(Nominated for best paper)
"Duty-Cycling Buildings Aggressively: The Next Frontier in HVAC Control"
IPSN/SPOTS 2011 -- International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Chicago, April 2011.
"SleepServer: A Software-Only Approach for Reducing the Energy Consumption of PCs within Enterprise Environment"
USENIX ATC 2010 -- USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, June 2010.
"Somniloquy: Augmenting Network Interfaces to Reduce PC Energy Usage"
USENIX NSDI 2009 -- USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, April 2009.
"WirelessWakeups Revisited: Energy Management for VoIP over WiFi Smartphones"
MobiSys 2007 -- International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, Puerto Rico, June 2007.
"CoolSpots: Reducing the Power Consumption of Wireless Mobile Devices with Multiple Radio Interfaces"
MobiSys 2006 -- International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, Uppsala, June 2006.
Complete list of Publications....