Vinayak S. Naik

Media

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:30:16 GMT

Here are articles and videos about work in which Vinayak was involved:

A demo on PEIR will appear in IITB's TechFest
An article on PEIR appeared in Fall 2008 issue of UCLA Engineer, the magazine of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science pdf Please check page number 10 for the article.
A demo on PEIR appeared in Wired magazine's NextFest
An article about PEIR in CNBC read more
A video on PEIR in YouTube view
An article about PeruNet in La Republica from Peru read more
A video about ExScal shot by the ExScal team view
A video about A Line In The Sand in Ohio News Network view
An article about A Line In The Sand in News in Engineering published by Ohio State University read more

AboutVinayak

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:49:00 GMT

He will be joining Indian Institute of Science as a visiting researcher in Computer Science and Automation department starting from Jan 2009. Prior to that he was a member of the research staff in the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). While at CENS, he was working with Prof. Deborah Estrin and Martin Lukac.

Full CV: pdf

Education:

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2006, Ohio State University
B.Eng. in Computer Science, 1999, VJTI, India

Research interests: Large scale wireless sensor networks

Honors:

CENS Local Employee Award for the academic year 2007-08 for his commitment and dedication to the Center above and beyond his normal day to day activities. The award is officially approved by the SEAS Dean’s office at UCLA.
His name will appear in the upcoming 2009 Edition of Who's Who in America, which is scheduled for publication in October 2009. Who's Who in America is recognized as the premier biographical data source pertaining to living Americans of notable achievement from every significant field of endeavor.

Talks

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:08:00 GMT

Recent:

PEIR. An invited speaker at TechFest'09 at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.
Realizing Large-Data, Long-Distance, and Large-Scale Embedded Networked Sensing Systems for Public Health, Seismic Science, and Border Defense at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay(IITB), Mumbai on Oct 15, 2008 at 2PM
Realizing Large-Data, Long-Distance, and Large-Scale Wireless Sensing Systems for Public Health, Seismic Science, and Border Defense at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore on September 9, 2008 at 4PM. read more
PEIR. An invited speaker with Eric Howard at CENS technical seminar series on July 18, 2008. read more pdf
Wireless sensing systems for acoustic and seismic monitoring: Hands on tutorial at the Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) with Dr. Lewis Girod on April 24, 2007 at MIT in Cambridge, MA. ppt

Past:

Reliable and Secure Data Transport in Large Scale Wireless Networks of Embedded Devices (Based on a true story) at the Ohio State University on June 5th, 2006 at 12:30PM in DL 263. ppt
A Combo Appetizer of WSN tools at The Ohio State University on May 10th, 2006 at 5PM in DL 280. ppt
Wireless Testbed Bonsai. NEST PI Retreat at the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH on Dec Dec 17th 2005. pdf
Sprinkler: A Reliable and Energy Efficient Data Dissemination Service for Extreme Scale Wireless Networks of Embedded Devices. An invited speaker at Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) in UCLA, Los Angeles, CA on Oct 21st 2005. ppt
Reliable and Secure Data Transport in Extreme Scale Wireless Networks of Embedded Devices. Ph.D. Candidacy talk at the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department in the Ohio State University, October 2005. This talk is the first presentation of his dissertation topic. ppt
ExScal: Elements of an Extreme Scaling Wireless Sensor Network. On behalf of Prof Anish Arora, presented an invited paper titled ExScal: Elements of an Extreme Scale Wireless Sensor Network at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), Hong Kong, August 2005. ppt
Sprinkler. An invited speaker at Microsoft Research, India on June 28, 2005. ppt
Whisper: Local Secret Maintenance in Sensor Networks. An invited speaker at INFOSEC Forum VII, presented by Central Ohio Chapters of ISSA, InfraGard, Columbus Technology Council, OHIOforEDI, and ACM at Columbus, OH on May 23rd, 2005. ppt
ExScal Backbone Network Architecture. A keynote speaker at Stargate Developer's Forum organized by Intel Research at Santa Clara, CA on May 2nd, 2005. ppt
An Introduction to EmStar (A practitioner's perspective) at The Ohio State University on April 28th, 2005 at 8PM in DL 280. ppt
M. Gouda, A. Arora, Y. Choi, and -. Routing on a Logical Grid. Presentation given in PI meeting of NEST program in DARPA, January 2004.

PaperPublications

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:58:00 GMT

Recent:

N. Yau, K. Chandler, E. Howard, D. Lam, M. Mun, V. Naik, N. Peterson, J. Ryder, K. Shilton, A. Steiner, C. Wang, J. Burke, D. Estrin, M. Hansen, and R. West. Designing a user interface to explore environmental impact and exposure. Submitted to IEEE Pervasive Computing
H. Zhang and V. Naik. Data Transport Control in Wireless Sensor Networks. To appear in the Handbook of Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Springer Publications, 2008. read more
D. Skolnik, M. Lukac, V. Naik, W. Kaiser, J. Wallace, and D. Estrin. Structural Monitoring and Performance-Based Assessment. Under submission at 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WEE 2008).
A. Husker, I. Stubailo, M. Lukac, V. Naik, R. Guy, P. Davis, and D. Estrin. WiLSoN: The Wirelessly Linked Seismological Network and its application in the Middle American Subduction Experiment (MASE). Accepted at the Seismological Research Letters (SRL) May/June 2008.
M. Lukac, V. Naik, I. Stubailo, A. Husker, and D. Estrin. In Vivo Characterization of a Wide area 802.11b Wireless Seismic Array.
- CENS Technical Report #74 , April 25 2007. read more

Past:

-, A. Arora, P. Sinha, and H. Zhang. Sprinkler: A Reliable and Energy Efficient Data Dissemination Service for Wireless Embedded Devices.
- Research Note ExScal-OSU-EN04-2005-05-11, The Ohio State University, May 2005. pdf (revised version)
- Accepted at The 26th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium for Real-Time Communication and Sensor Network Track, Miami, USA, December 2005. pdf
- Accepted at the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Volume 6, Number 7, July 2007. pdf
-. Reliable and Secure Data Transport in Large Scale Wireless Networks of Embedded Devices. Ph.D. Thesis, Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2006. pdf
- and A. Arora. Harvest: A Reliable and Energy Efficient Bulk Data Collection Service for Large Scale Wireless Sensor Networks.
- Technical Report paper OSU-CISRC-4/06-TR37, The Ohio State University, April 2006. pdf
-, E. Ertin, H. Zhang, and A. Arora. Wireless Testbed Bonsai. Accepted at The Second International Workshop On Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee 2006) held in conjunction with The 4th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2006), Boston, USA, April 2006. pdf
- Technical Report OSU-CISRC-1/06-TR08, The Ohio State University, January 2006. pdf
E. Ertin, A. Arora, R. Ramnath, M. Nesterenko, -, S. Bapat, V. Kulathumani, M. Sridharan, H. Zhang, and H. Cao. Kansei: A Testbed for Sensing at Scale.
- Technical Report OSU-CISRC-12/05-TR77, The Ohio State University, December 2005. pdf
- Accepted at The Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2006) for Sensor Platform, Tools and Design Methods for Networked Embedded Systems (SPOTS) track.
A. Arora, R. Ramnath, E. Ertin, P. Sinha, S. Bapat, -, V. Kulathumani, H. Zhang, H. Cao, M. Sridhara, S. Kumar, N. Seddon, C. Anderson, T. Herman, N. Trivedi, C. Zhang, M. Gouda, Y. Choi, M. Nesterenko, R. Shah, S. Kulkarni, M. Aramugam, L. Wang, D. Culler, P. Dutta, C. Sharp, G. Tolle, M. Grimmer, B. Ferriera, and K. Parker. ExScal: Elements of an Extreme Scale Wireless Sensor Network. Invited to The 11th International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, Hong Kong, August 2005. pdf
A. Arora, P. Dutta, S. Bapat, V. Kulathumani, H. Zhang, -, H. Cao, M. Demirbas, M. Gouda, Y. Choi, T. Herman, S. Kulkarni, U. Arumugam, M. Nesterenko, A. Vora, and M. Miyashita. A Line in the Sand: A Wireless Sensor Network for Target Detection, Classification, and Tracking. In Computer Networks Journal, Elsevier, 2004. pdf
-, A. Arora, S. Bapat, and M. Gouda. Whisper: Local Secret Maintenance in Sensor Networks.
- Technical Report OSU-CISRC-1/03-TR04, The Ohio State University, January 2003. pdf
- Best paper at PoDSy (Principles of Dependable Systems) 2003, San Francisco, USA. pdf
- Invited to IEEE Distributed Systems Online, September 2003 (Journal) read more

Projects

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:48:00 GMT

PEIR project to measure personal impact of the participants on the environmental pollution and particpants' exposure to the pollution using cell phone
Seismic studies in Peru: 50 stargates deployed over 294Kilometers
A scripting language, emulation support, and implementation of CentRoute for Tenet
Measuring magnetic field via autonomous helicopters and planes (HeliEMag)
Aftershocks monitoring to study earthquakes (GeoNet)
Structural Health Monitoring of the tall buildings in LA (SHM)
Seismic studies in Mexico (MASE): 64 stargates deployed over 250Kilometers
EmStar
MERHAB project for the rapid analysis of pseudo-nitzschia & domoic acid, locating events in near-real time: Network of tens of aquatic robots using freewave radios
NESTFE: A network of 100 sensor nodes (Trio)
Kansei: A testbed of 200 coupled motes and stargates networked using IEEE 802.11b wireless ethernet and IEEE 802.3 wired ethernet (Currently administered by Mukundan Sridharan)
ExScal: A network of 1000 sensor nodes (XSM) and 203 stargates
A Line in the Sand: A network of 90 sensor nodes (MICA 2)

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Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:15:00 GMT

AboutVinayak
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CoolIdeas

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:47:00 GMT

Signatures in Gmail: Gmail allows us to consolidate multiple email addresses in a single account. However, it doesn't allow us to mention for which email addresses do we want append the signature. As an example, I would like to append signature containing my webpage address to my office email but not to my personal emails. Currently, if I opt to have signature, Gmail will append it to all of emails regardless of whether the email if sent using office's email address or personal. 'This is has been implemented by Jerome Dane. Here is the page. Way to go, Jerome!'
Energy harvesting in the gymnasiums: In the gyms, there are many exercise machines, such as elliptical, bicycles, etc., which can be used to generate energy in the same manner as the turbines to generate energy. Such a way of generating energy will reduce the carbon footprint of the gyms.
A digital calendar-frame: We already have frames for digital photos. In the same fashion, we can have a digital calendar-frame that I can hang on the wall or put on my desk. The digital calendar-frame can download my calendar from my computer (e.g. iCal) or from the Internet (e.g. Google Calendar). The digital calendar-frame will always keep itself synchronized. An additional feature would be to create notifications or create an agenda for the day. Although the calendar on my computer or the online version is accessible to other people at home, it is cumbersome to need a computer or a phone to access it. So a digital calendar-frame would be a nice gadget.

I maintain a blog called worthsharing, where I post the articles,news,software, or anything that I feel is worth sharing with others.

ContactInformation

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:04:00 GMT

Office address:
Cubicle # R
3551 Boelter Hall, CENS-UCLA,
420 Westwood Plaza,
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596

Office mailing address:
3563 Boelter Hall, CENS-UCLA,
420 Westwood Plaza,
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596

E-mail: naik AT cens DOT ucla DOT edu

Office phone: +1-310-825-5274

Fax: +1-310-206-3053

Social networking:
Orkut Profile ID = 12631779238923683678
Facebook Profile ID = 640309449
LinkedIn Profile ID = vinayaknaik

ProfessionalActivities

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:07:00 GMT

An external reviewer for the 4th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities (TRIDENTCOM'08).
A reviewer for the ACM Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC'07).
An external reviewer for the IEEE International Conference on Communications Wireless Networking Symposium (ICC'08 WN).
Guest Lecturer for Prof Deborah Estrin's CS118 course about Computer Network Fundamentals, Fall 2007 at UCLA.
A reviewer for the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (JASP'07).
A reviewer for the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS'07).
An external reviewer for the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'07).
The coordinator for the CENS technical seminar series for the Spring'07 quarter.
A member of the program committee for the First International Workshop on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems for Global and Homeland Security (MASS-GHS07) in conjunction with The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems on October 12, 2007 at Pisa, Italy.
An organizer of the tutorial titled "Wireless sensing systems for acoustic and seismic monitoring: Hands on tutorial" at the International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'07), April 2007 at Cambridge, MA, USA.
A member of the program committee for the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '07), June 18 - 20, 2007 at Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

PosterPublications

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:18:00 GMT

Recent:

D. Skolnik, M. Lukac, V. Naik, W. Kaiser, and J. Wallace, M. Kohler, R. Govindan, P. Davis, I. Stubailo, and S. Irvine. Developments on the CENS. Structural Health Monitoring Front. At CENS Research Review, LA, Oct 2007. read more
O. Gnawali, K. Jang, J. Paek, M. Vieira, K. Chandler, -, D. Estrin, R. Govindan, E. Kohler. Tenet: An Architecture For Tiered Sensor Networks. At CENS Research Review, LA, Oct 2007. read more
I. Stubailo, A. Husker, A. Dominquez, M. Lukac, -, R. Guy, P. Davis, and D. Estrin. Latest Scientific and Technological Results from the Mexico Experiment. At CENS Research Review, LA, Oct 2007. read more
P. Davis, D. Estrin, R. Guy, I. Stubailo, A. Husker, M. Lukac, -, and S. Irving. Embedded Network Approaches to Multiscale Seismic Networks-Overview. At CENS NSF site visit, LA, May 2007. read more
D. Skolnik, M. Lukac, -, W. Kaiser, J. Wallace, M. Kohler, R. Govindan, P. Davis, I. Stubailo, and S. Irvine. Developments on the CENS Structural Health Monitoring Front. At CENS NSF site visit, LA, May 2007. ppt
-, L. Girod, M. Lukac, N. Ramanathan, B. Greenstein, E. Kohler, and D. Estrin. EmStar--2: The Next Generation of Programming Development Environment for 32-bit Class of Embedded Devices. At the 4th Annual CENS Research Review, LA, Oct 2006. pdf
M. Lukac, -, A. Husker, I. Stubailo, R. Guy, P. Davis, and Deborah Estrin. GeoNet: A Platform for Rapid : A Platform for Rapid Distributed Geophysical Sensing Distributed Geophysical Sensing. Poster under submission at 4th Annual CENS Research Review, LA, Oct 2006. pdf

Past:

A. Arora, R. Ramnath, P. Sinha, E. Ertin, S. Bapat, -, V. Kulathumani, H. Zhang, H. Cao, M. Sridhara, S. Kumar, N. Seddon, C. Anderson, T. Herman, N. Trivedi, C. Zhang, M. Gouda, Y. Choi, M. Nesterenko, R. Shah, S. Kulkarni, M. Aramugam, L. Wang, D. Culler, P. Dutta, C. Sharp, G. Tolle, M. Grimmer, B. Ferriera, and K. Parker. Project ExScal, Invited to International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), CA, USA, June 2005. pdf
A. Arora, P. Sinha, E. Ertin,-, H. Zhang, M. Sridharan, and S. Bapat. ExScal Backbone Network Architecture.
- Displayed at The Ohio state University Open House, Columbus, USA, Feb 2005
- Displayed at The Second TinyOS Technology Exchange, Berkeley, USA, Feb 2005.
- Accepted at Mobisys, Seattle, USA, June 2005. pdf
-, S. Bapat, H. Zhang, C. Anderson, G. Fox, J. Wieseman, A. Arora, E. Ertin, and R. Ramnath. Kansei: Sensor Testbed for At-Scale Experiments. Presented at The Ohio State University Open House, Columbus, USA, Feb 2005 and at The Second TinyOS Technology Exchange, Berkeley, USA, Feb 2005. pdf

Credits

Fri, 04 May 2007 21:49:00 GMT

This home page is created using TiddlyWiki. Prof Estrin brought TiddlyWiki to my notice.
The photo in the AboutVinayak tiddler is taken by Prof Hongwei Zhang.

ProgrammingHelp

Fri, 04 May 2007 21:48:00 GMT

Stargate
- Mote programming (stargate release 6.1) html
- Mote programming (stargate release 7.1 and 7.2) html
- Changing transmission power of 802.11 wireless cards html
- Reboot a mote (stargate release 7.1 and 7.2) html
- tmote programming (stargate release 7.1 and 7.2) html
Mote
- Testing PageEEPROM html
EmStar
- Installing Devfs kernel on the Stargate html
- FUSD-based IPC html
- FAQs html
Power PC (Apple)
- ARM Tool Chain for Linux on Power PC html

WorkExperience

Fri, 04 May 2007 21:46:00 GMT

A member of the research staff at CENS in UCLA, CA from Fall 2006 - Current.
Graduate Research Associate at the Ohio State University, OH from Fall 2002 — Summer 2006.
- Working in the Dependable Distributed and Networked Systems group led by Prof. Anish Arora.
Graduate Teaching Associate at the Ohio State University, OH from Fall 2000 — Summer 2006.
- Assisted Prof Arora to design and grade lab assignments and projects for Introduction to Network Security class in Spring 2004, 2005, and 2006.
- Assisted Prof Arora to design lab assignments and projects for Introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks in Spring 2005.
- Computer Assisted Problem Solving for Business (CSE 200).
- Elementary Computer Programming with Java as an example (CSE 201).
- Computer Assisted Problem Solving (CSE 100).
Summer Research Intern at Telcordia Applied Research Greenhouse (formerly known as Bellcore), NJ under the guidance of Dr. Simon Tsang in Summer 2001.
- Worked on remote management and configuration of broadband home router/gateway.
Assistant Software Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India from Fall 1999 — Summer 2000. Part of system software group to administer the on-line transaction system of National Securities of Depository Ltd (NSDL). The profile of the job included DB/2 database administrator and network administration for S/360 mainframe.

SiteTitle

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:57:00 GMT

Vinayak S. Naik

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AboutVinayak

Sankalpa

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 01:27:00 GMT

He is a member of Sankalpa, which is an organization helping micro-level projects related to social, economical, or educational development of India.

SiteSubtitle

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:01:00 GMT

Home page at CENS, UCLA.

Vinayak

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:10:00 GMT

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