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=What I'm Working On=
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=What I'm working on=
  
This page is my attempt to keep track of all the things I'm working on...
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This page is my (not always current) attempt to keep track of all the things I'm working on...
 
 
==Blockchain Research==
 
 
 
* Implementing [https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09300 RCanopus] and further parallelizing the committer peer (with Christian Gorenflo, Ashwin Sekhari, Qingnan Duan, Linguan Wang, Lukasz Golab, Bernard Wong, and (at UMass) Stephen Lee and Prashant Shenoy)
 
 
 
* Designing a trusted smart meter to ensure that data that enters a blockchain can be relied upon. (with Dimcho Karakashev)
 
 
 
* Enhancing Fabric with quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms (with Bhargav Das, Amelia Holcombe, Geovandro Pereira, and Michele Mosca)
 
  
 
==Energy systems==
 
==Energy systems==
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* Joint optimal placement, sizing, and operation of PV, storage, and bi-directional EVs (with Anais Berkes)
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* Policy recommendations to exploit the synergy of residential PV, bi-directional TVs, and working from home (with Anais Berkes and David Reiner)
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* Studying the impact of system configuration on the energy usage of LLMs (with Grant Wilkins and Richard Mortier)
  
* Instrumenting campus buildings to measure electricity, chilled water, and steam heat consumption (with Yerbol Aussat and Costin Ograda-Bratu)
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==Extreme weather impact and mitigation==
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* Studying how urban buildings can cope with extreme weather events (with Livia Capol, ETH and Zoltan Nagy, UT Austin)
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* Studying the impact of extreme weather on the transmission grid (with Enming Liang and Minghua Chen (both CityU HK))
  
* Creating a website for homeowners and businesses to determine how many solar panels and how big a storage battery to buy to achieve a certain level of grid independence (with Fiodar Kazhamiaka)
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==Environment and conservation==
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===Carbon estimation and credits===
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* [https://4c.cst.cam.ac.uk Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits]
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* Studying the impact of forest degradation on pan-tropical carbon stock and structure (with Amelia Holcombe and David Coomes)
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* 3D forest structure reconstruction using monocular vision and DNNs (with Yihang She, David Coomes, and Andrew Blake)
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* Studying the impact of wildfires on forest carbon stock (with Jovana Knezevic, David Coomes, and Adam Pellegrini)
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* Quantifying carbon sequestration in regrowing forests in the Brazilian Atlantic (with Felipe Begliomini and David Coomes)
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* Ex-ante quantification of carbon credits from avoided deforestation (with E-Ping Rau, Tom Swinfield, and Abby Williams)
  
* Determining when to resize home energy storage systems (with Jan Deller)
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===Monitoring and remote sensing===
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* Identifying land use from spatial-spectral-temporal  remote sensing using self-supervised learning (with Madeline Lisaius, Clement Atzberger, and Andrew Blake)
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* Using CNNs and computer vision for low-cost and realtime insect biodiversity measurement (with Sachin Matthew, Matteo Redana, and Lynn Dicks)
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* Low-cost sensing of soil moisture (with Ju Wang (Northwest U., China)
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* Developing algorithms for trunk diameter estimation in complex environments using game engine-based training (with Frank Feng and Yihang She)
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* Monitoring wild boar and lynx population in the Carpathians (with Tom Ratsakatika and Ruben Iosif (carpathian.org))
  
 
==Misc.==
 
==Misc.==
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* Designing an index to measure researcher influence and also identify potential research fraud (with Ankai Jie)
 
* Designing an index to measure researcher influence and also identify potential research fraud (with Ankai Jie)
  
* Better teleconferncing (with David Adeboye and Anil Madhavpeddy)
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[[Completed work]]
 
 
=Completed=
 
 
 
===Fall 2019===
 
* [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.11229 Conflict resolution] for hot keys in Fabric (with Christian Gorenflo and Lukasz Golab)
 
* Using RFID-based sensors for determining soil moisture level (with Ju Wang and Omid Abari)
 
 
 
===Summer 2019===
 
* Improving the performance of Hyperledger Fabric. We've already got it to [20,000 tps (see [https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00910 FastFabric]), and our goal is to get to 100,000 tps by and further parallelizing the committer peer (with Christian Gorenflo and Lukasz Golab)
 
 
 
* Using Fabric to provide an audit trail for electric vehicle charging (with Christian Gorenflo, Lukasz Golab, and SWTCH EV Inc.)
 
 
 
* Using deep neural networks to compute optimal (MPC-computed) storage operation strategies (with Fiodar Kazhamiaka and Catherine Rosenberg)
 
* Using cloud cover and solar panel images to detect panel soiling and shadowing (with Yingjie Chen)
 
 
 
===Spring 2019===
 
 
 
* Using IoT to reduce energy costs of lighting (with Yerbol Aussat)
 
 
 
* Managing data consent on Fabric (with Rishav Agarwal, Dhruv Kumar, Pedro Velmovitsky, Plinio Morita, and Lukasz Golab)
 
 
 
* Reducing the cost of personal thermal comfort systems (with Costin Ograda-Bratu)
 
 
 
===Winter 2019===
 
 
 
* Using computer vision algorithms to estimate the degree of snow cover on solar panels (with Jia Ying Lin)
 
 
 
* Improving the accuracy of RFID-based sensors (with Ju Wang and Omid Abari)
 
 
 
* Designing and building an off-grid system to capture e-scooter activity and accidents (with Tingyun Liu and Lime Inc.)
 
 
 
* Improving the description of research outcomes from my energy systems research (with Shela Qiu)
 
  
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Last updated Jan 9, 2020
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Last updated March 2024

Latest revision as of 17:22, 1 June 2024

What I'm working on

This page is my (not always current) attempt to keep track of all the things I'm working on...

Energy systems

  • Joint optimal placement, sizing, and operation of PV, storage, and bi-directional EVs (with Anais Berkes)
  • Policy recommendations to exploit the synergy of residential PV, bi-directional TVs, and working from home (with Anais Berkes and David Reiner)
  • Studying the impact of system configuration on the energy usage of LLMs (with Grant Wilkins and Richard Mortier)

Extreme weather impact and mitigation

  • Studying how urban buildings can cope with extreme weather events (with Livia Capol, ETH and Zoltan Nagy, UT Austin)
  • Studying the impact of extreme weather on the transmission grid (with Enming Liang and Minghua Chen (both CityU HK))

Environment and conservation

Carbon estimation and credits

  • Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits
  • Studying the impact of forest degradation on pan-tropical carbon stock and structure (with Amelia Holcombe and David Coomes)
  • 3D forest structure reconstruction using monocular vision and DNNs (with Yihang She, David Coomes, and Andrew Blake)
  • Studying the impact of wildfires on forest carbon stock (with Jovana Knezevic, David Coomes, and Adam Pellegrini)
  • Quantifying carbon sequestration in regrowing forests in the Brazilian Atlantic (with Felipe Begliomini and David Coomes)
  • Ex-ante quantification of carbon credits from avoided deforestation (with E-Ping Rau, Tom Swinfield, and Abby Williams)

Monitoring and remote sensing

  • Identifying land use from spatial-spectral-temporal remote sensing using self-supervised learning (with Madeline Lisaius, Clement Atzberger, and Andrew Blake)
  • Using CNNs and computer vision for low-cost and realtime insect biodiversity measurement (with Sachin Matthew, Matteo Redana, and Lynn Dicks)
  • Low-cost sensing of soil moisture (with Ju Wang (Northwest U., China)
  • Developing algorithms for trunk diameter estimation in complex environments using game engine-based training (with Frank Feng and Yihang She)
  • Monitoring wild boar and lynx population in the Carpathians (with Tom Ratsakatika and Ruben Iosif (carpathian.org))

Misc.

  • Designing an index to measure researcher influence and also identify potential research fraud (with Ankai Jie)

Completed work


Last updated March 2024