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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...
  
==Forest conservation and restoration==
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#Energy systems
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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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#Extreme weather impact and mitigation
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##Studying the impact of extreme weather on the transmission grid (with Enming Liang and Minghua Chen (both CityU HK))
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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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###Estimating forest structure parameters using UAV-based monocular vision (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)
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##Monitoring and remote sensing
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###Estimating the impact of small field size on Barlow Twin land use representations (with Madeleine Lisaius, Clement Atzberger (Mantle Labs) and Andrew Blake (Mantle Labs))
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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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##Barlow Twin project (with Frank Feng, Madeleine Lisaius, Sadiq Jaffer, Clement Atzberger, David Coomes, and Anil Madhavapeddy)
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###Improving Barlow-Twin representations derived from Sentinel 2 observations
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###Creating a system for rapid creation of the model
  
* Improving the performance of Individual-Based Models for forests (with Yu He)
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[[Completed work]]
* Linking Earth observation to carbon sequestration certificates (with Alan Marko)
 
* Estimating IUCN Red List status of birds from Earth observation (with David Wesby, David Coomes, BirdLife International, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds)
 
* Using Time-of-flight sensors on mobile phones for geometric modelling of forest inventory (with Amelia Holcomb, Bill Tong, and Yijie Wang)
 
  
==Blockchains==
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Last updated September 2024
* Implementing [https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09300 RCanopus] (with Christian Gorenflo, Ashwin Sekhari, Qingnan Duan, Linguan Wang, Lukasz Golab, Bernard Wong, and (at UMass) Stephen Lee and Prashant Shenoy)
 
* Enhancing Hyperledger Fabric with quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms (with Bhargav Das, Amelia Holcombe, Geovandro Pereira, and Michele Mosca)
 
 
 
==Energy systems==
 
 
 
* Creating a website for homeowners and businesses to determine how many solar panels and how large a storage battery to buy to achieve a certain level of grid independence (with Brad Huang and Fiodar Kazhamiaka)
 
 
 
* Estimating the solar and storage system sizing for the British Antarctic Survey base in Rothera, Antarctica (with Brad Huang, Fiodar Kazhamiaka, and Nopi Exizidou)
 
 
 
==Misc.==
 
 
 
* Designing an index to measure researcher influence and also identify potential research fraud (with Ankai Jie)
 
 
 
=Completed work and outcomes=
 
 
 
===Winter/Spring 2020===
 
* Raspberry-Pi system to read analog meters (with Ivy Liu, Yerbol Aussat, and Costin Ograda-Bratu)
 
** [https://github.com/yerbolaussat/Analog-meter-reader Github link to source code]
 
* Better teleconferencing (with David Adeboye)
 
**Master's thesis in preparation
 
* Determining when to resize home energy storage systems
 
**Bachelor's thesis
 
** J. Deller and S. Keshav, "[https://svr-sk818-web.cl.cam.ac.uk/keshav/wiki/images/b/b7/Resizing_storage-camera.pdf The Benefits of Dynamically Resizing Storage,]" ''To Appear, Energy Storage Workshop at ACM eEnergy 2020,'', June 2020.
 
* Low-cost humidity sensing for greenhouses
 
** J. Wang, L. Chang, S. Aggarwal, O. Abari, and S. Keshav, "Soil Moisture Sensing with Commodity RFID Systems," ''To Appear, Proc. ACM Mobisys'', 2020.
 
===Fall 2019===
 
* [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.11229 Conflict resolution] for hot keys in Fabric
 
** C. Gorenflo, L. Golab, S. Keshav, "XOX Fabric: A hybrid approach to blockchain transaction execution," To Appear, Proc. IEEE ICBC, 2020.
 
 
 
* Using RFID-based sensors for determining soil moisture level
 
**J. Wang, L. Chang, S. Aggarwal, O. Abari, and S. Keshav, "Soil Moisture Sensing with Commodity RFID Systems," To Appear, Proc. ACM Mobisys, 2020.
 
 
 
===Summer 2019===
 
* Improving the performance of Hyperledger Fabric
 
** Gorenflo, S. Lee, L. Golab, S. Keshav. FastFabric: Scaling Hyperledger Fabric to 20,000 Transactions per Second, Proc. IEEE ICBC, May 2019. 
 
* Using Fabric to provide an audit trail for electric vehicle charging
 
** C. Gorenflo, L. Golab, and S. Keshav, [https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3328283 Mitigating Trust Issues in Electric Vehicle Charging using a Blockchain], ''Proc. ACM eEnergy 2019'', June 2019.
 
* Using deep neural networks to compute optimal (MPC-computed) storage operation strategies
 
** F. Kazhamiaka, S. Keshav, and C. Rosenberg, [https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3331032 Adaptive Battery Control with Neural Networks], ''Proc. AMLIES Workshop at ACM eEnergy 2019'', June 2019.
 
* 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
 
** * R. Agarwal, D. Kumar , L. Golab, S. Keshav, "Consentio: Managing Consent to Data Access using Permissioned Blockchains," ''To Appear, Proc. IEEE ICBC'', 2020.
 
 
 
* 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)
 
** J. Wang, O. Abari, L. Chang, and S. Keshav, [https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3326084 Are RFID Sensing Systems Ready for the Real World?], ''Proc. Mobisys 2019'', June 2019
 
 
 
* 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 June 10, 2020
 

Latest revision as of 14:47, 15 November 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...

  1. Energy systems
    1. Policy recommendations to exploit the synergy of residential PV, bi-directional TVs, and working from home (with Anais Berkes and David Reiner)
  2. Extreme weather impact and mitigation
    1. Studying the impact of extreme weather on the transmission grid (with Enming Liang and Minghua Chen (both CityU HK))
  3. Environment and conservation
    1. Carbon estimation and credits
      1. Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits
      2. Studying the impact of forest degradation on pan-tropical carbon stock and structure (with Amelia Holcombe and David Coomes)
      3. Estimating forest structure parameters using UAV-based monocular vision (with Yihang She, David Coomes, and Andrew Blake)
      4. Studying the impact of wildfires on forest carbon stock (with Jovana Knezevic, David Coomes, and Adam Pellegrini)
      5. Quantifying carbon sequestration in regrowing forests in the Brazilian Atlantic (with Felipe Begliomini and David Coomes)
      6. Ex-ante quantification of carbon credits from avoided deforestation (with E-Ping Rau, Tom Swinfield, and Abby Williams)
    2. Monitoring and remote sensing
      1. Estimating the impact of small field size on Barlow Twin land use representations (with Madeleine Lisaius, Clement Atzberger (Mantle Labs) and Andrew Blake (Mantle Labs))
      2. Low-cost sensing of soil moisture (with Ju Wang (Northwest U., China))
      3. Developing algorithms for trunk diameter estimation in complex environments using game engine-based training (with Frank Feng and Yihang She)
    3. Barlow Twin project (with Frank Feng, Madeleine Lisaius, Sadiq Jaffer, Clement Atzberger, David Coomes, and Anil Madhavapeddy)
      1. Improving Barlow-Twin representations derived from Sentinel 2 observations
      2. Creating a system for rapid creation of the model

Completed work


Last updated September 2024