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| =What I'm working on= | | =What I'm working on= |
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− | This page is my attempt to keep track of all the things I'm working on... | + | This page is my (not always current) attempt to keep track of all the things I'm working on... |
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− | ==Energy systems==
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− | * Designing tariff schemes for resilient home customers with storage systems (with Nastaran Nasteri, Yashar Ghiassi-Farrokhfal,Wolf Ketter, and John Collins)
| + | ## 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 climate change on the transmission grid (with Petr Dolezal and Emily Shuckburgh)
| + | #Extreme weather impact and mitigation |
− | * Estimating the reduction in lighting levels of commercial buildings from Earth observation (with Shivam Saraf and Abhinav Bora)
| + | ##Studying the impact of extreme weather on the transmission grid (with Enming Liang and Minghua Chen (both CityU HK)) |
− | * Computing the solar and storage system sizing for the British Antarctic Survey base in Rothera, Antarctica (with Brad Huang, Fiodar Kazhamiaka, and Nopi Exizidou)
| + | #Environment and conservation |
| + | ##Carbon estimation and credits |
| + | ###[https://4c.cst.cam.ac.uk Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits] |
| + | ###Studying the impact of forest degradation on pan-tropical carbon stock and structure (with Amelia Holcombe and David Coomes) |
| + | ###Estimating forest structure parameters using UAV-based monocular vision (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 |
| + | ###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)) |
| + | ###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) |
| + | ##Barlow Twin project (with Frank Feng, Madeleine Lisaius, Sadiq Jaffer, Clement Atzberger, David Coomes, and Anil Madhavapeddy) |
| + | ###Improving Barlow-Twin representations derived from Sentinel 2 observations |
| + | ###Creating a system for rapid creation of the model |
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− | ==Forest conservation and restoration==
| + | [[Completed work]] |
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− | * Improving the performance of Individual-Based Models for forests (with Siyi Ji)
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− | * Linking Earth observation to carbon sequestration certificates (with Tom Shan)
| + | Last updated September 2024 |
− | * Using Time-of-flight sensors on mobile phones for geometric modelling of forest inventory (with Amelia Holcomb)
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− | * Developing an app for depth-assisted segmentation of tree images (with Megan Penny and Amelia Holcomb)
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− | ==Blockchains==
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− | * 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)
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− | * Speeding up Hyperledger Fabric with pre-validation (with Rishav Agarwal, Christian Gorenflo, and Lukasz Golab)
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− | * Supporting time-based smart contracts in Hyperledger Fabric (with Aritra Mitra, Christian Gorenflo, and Lukasz Golab)
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− | ==Misc.==
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− | * Crowdsensing data (with Bihan Liu and Fiodar Kazhamiaka)
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− | * Using DNNs to extrapolate Earth observation data to cloudy regions (with Harsimrat Bhundar and Clement Atzberger)
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− | * Designing an index to measure researcher influence and also identify potential research fraud (with Ankai Jie)
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− | =Completed work and outcomes=
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− | ===Fall 2020===
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− | * O. Ardakanian, S. Huo, and S. Keshav, 2020, [https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/R4SVBF 6-second load measurement dataset],https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/R4SVBF, ''University of Waterloo Dataverse'', December 2020.
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− | * J.Y. Lin, C. Ograda-Bratu, S. Huo, and S. Keshav, 2020, [https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/ITQPHZ Detecting Snow Covered Solar Panels Dataset], https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/ITQPHZ, ''University of Waterloo Dataverse'', December 2020.
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− | * S. Doubov, C. Ograda-Bratu, S. Huo, S. Keshav, 2020, [https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/X30EPQ Camera-based Occupancy Detection Dataset], https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/X30EPQ, ''University of Waterloo Dataverse'', December 2020.
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− | * Y. Aussat, C. Ograda-Bratu, S. Huo, S. Keshav, "[https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/3BCADM Office Light Level dataset]", https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/3BCADM, ''University of Waterloo Dataverse,'' November 2020.
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− | * A. Rabbani, C. Ograda-Bratu, S. Huo, S. Keshav, "[https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/2NWMDY Personal thermal comfort and occupancy dataset]", https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/2NWMDY, ''University of Waterloo Dataverse,'' November 2020.
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− | * C. Gorenflo, I.Rio, L. Golab, C. Ograda-Bratu, S. Huo, S. Keshav, "[https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/7OAETS Webike dataset]", https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/7OAETS, ''University of Waterloo Dataverse'', November 2020.
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− | ===Summer 2020===
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− | * Designing a trusted smart meter to ensure that data that enters a blockchain can be relied upon. (with Dimcho Karakashev and Sergey Gorbunov)
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− | ** D. Karakashev, S. Gorbunov, and S. Keshav, "Making Renewable Energy Certificates Efficient, Trustworthy, and Anonymous," To Appear Proc. IEEE SmartGridComm, November 2020.
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− | * 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)
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− | * 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)
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− | * Enhancing Hyperledger Fabric with quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms (with Bhargav Das, Amelia Holcombe, Geovandro Pereira, and Michele Mosca)
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− | ===Winter/Spring 2020===
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− | * Raspberry-Pi system to read analog meters (with Ivy Liu, Yerbol Aussat, and Costin Ograda-Bratu)
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− | ** [https://github.com/yerbolaussat/Analog-meter-reader Github link to source code]
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− | * Better teleconferencing (with David Adeboye)
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− | **Master's thesis
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− | * Determining when to resize home energy storage systems
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− | **Bachelor's thesis
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− | ** 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,]" ''Proc. Energy Storage Workshop at ACM eEnergy 2020,'', June 2020.
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− | * Low-cost humidity sensing for greenhouses
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− | ** J. Wang, L. Chang, S. Aggarwal, O. Abari, and S. Keshav, "Soil Moisture Sensing with Commodity RFID Systems," ''Proc. ACM Mobisys'', 2020.
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− | ===Fall 2019===
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− | * [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.11229 Conflict resolution] for hot keys in Fabric
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− | ** C. Gorenflo, L. Golab, S. Keshav, "XOX Fabric: A hybrid approach to blockchain transaction execution," ''Proc. IEEE ICBC,'' 2020.
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− | * Using RFID-based sensors for determining soil moisture level
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− | **J. Wang, L. Chang, S. Aggarwal, O. Abari, and S. Keshav, "Soil Moisture Sensing with Commodity RFID Systems," '' Proc. ACM Mobisys,'' 2020.
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− | ===Summer 2019===
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− | * Improving the performance of Hyperledger Fabric
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− | ** Gorenflo, S. Lee, L. Golab, S. Keshav. FastFabric: Scaling Hyperledger Fabric to 20,000 Transactions per Second, Proc. IEEE ICBC, May 2019.
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− | * Using Fabric to provide an audit trail for electric vehicle charging
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− | ** 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.
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− | * Using deep neural networks to compute optimal (MPC-computed) storage operation strategies
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− | ** 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.
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− | * Using cloud cover and solar panel images to detect panel soiling and shadowing (with Yingjie Chen)
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− | ===Spring 2019===
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− | * Using IoT to reduce energy costs of lighting (with Yerbol Aussat)
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− | * Managing data consent on Fabric
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− | ** * R. Agarwal, D. Kumar , L. Golab, S. Keshav, "Consentio: Managing Consent to Data Access using Permissioned Blockchains," ''To Appear, Proc. IEEE ICBC'', 2020.
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− | * Reducing the cost of personal thermal comfort systems (with Costin Ograda-Bratu)
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− | ===Winter 2019===
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− | * Using computer vision algorithms to estimate the degree of snow cover on solar panels (with Jia Ying Lin)
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− | * Improving the accuracy of RFID-based sensors (with Ju Wang and Omid Abari)
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− | ** 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
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− | * Designing and building an off-grid system to capture e-scooter activity and accidents (with Tingyun Liu and Lime Inc.)
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− | * Improving the description of research outcomes from my energy systems research (with Shela Qiu)
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− | Last updated September 29, 2020 | |