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This page is my attempt to keep track of all the things I'm working on... | This page is my attempt to keep track of all the things I'm working on... | ||
| − | == | + | ==Forest conservation and restoration== |
| − | * | + | * Improving the performance of Individual-Based Models for forests (with Yu He) |
| + | * 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) | ||
| − | * Designing a trusted smart meter to ensure that data that enters a blockchain can be relied upon. (with Dimcho Karakashev) | + | ==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) | ||
| + | * Designing a trusted smart meter to ensure that data that enters a blockchain can be relied upon. (with Dimcho Karakashev and Sergey Gorbunov) | ||
* Enhancing Fabric with quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms (with Bhargav Das, Amelia Holcombe, Geovandro Pereira, and Michele Mosca) | * Enhancing Fabric with quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms (with Bhargav Das, Amelia Holcombe, Geovandro Pereira, and Michele Mosca) | ||
==Energy systems== | ==Energy systems== | ||
| − | + | * Instrumenting campus buildings to measure electricity, chilled water, and steam heat consumption (with Ivy Liu, Yerbol Aussat, and Costin Ograda-Bratu) | |
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| − | * Instrumenting campus buildings to measure electricity, chilled water, and steam heat consumption (with Ivy Liu, Yerbol Aussat and Costin Ograda-Bratu | ||
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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) | ||
| + | * 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.== | ==Misc.== | ||
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===Winter/Spring 2020=== | ===Winter/Spring 2020=== | ||
| − | * Better teleconferencing (with David Adeboye) | + | * Better teleconferencing (with David Adeboye) |
| − | * Determining when to resize home energy storage systems | + | **Master's thesis in preparation |
| + | * Determining when to resize home energy storage systems | ||
| + | **Bachelor's thesis and "The Benefits of Dynamically Resizing Storage," Energy Storage Workshop at ACM eEnergy 2020,, June 2020. | ||
===Fall 2019=== | ===Fall 2019=== | ||
| − | * [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.11229 Conflict resolution] for hot keys in Fabric | + | * [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.11229 Conflict resolution] for hot keys in Fabric |
| − | * Using RFID-based sensors for determining soil moisture level | + | ** C. Gorenflo, L. Golab, S. Keshav, "XOX Fabric: A hybrid approach to blockchain transaction execution," To Appear, Proc. IEEE ICBC, 2020. |
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| + | * 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=== | ===Summer 2019=== | ||
| − | * Improving the performance of Hyperledger Fabric | + | * Improving the performance of Hyperledger Fabric |
| − | * Using Fabric to provide an audit trail for electric vehicle charging | + | ** 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 | |
| − | * Using deep neural networks to compute optimal (MPC-computed) storage operation strategies | + | ** 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) | * Using cloud cover and solar panel images to detect panel soiling and shadowing (with Yingjie Chen) | ||
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* Using IoT to reduce energy costs of lighting (with Yerbol Aussat) | * Using IoT to reduce energy costs of lighting (with Yerbol Aussat) | ||
| − | * Managing data consent on Fabric | + | * 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) | * Reducing the cost of personal thermal comfort systems (with Costin Ograda-Bratu) | ||
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* Improving the accuracy of RFID-based sensors (with Ju Wang and Omid Abari) | * 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.) | * Designing and building an off-grid system to capture e-scooter activity and accidents (with Tingyun Liu and Lime Inc.) | ||
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Revision as of 09:43, 11 June 2020
Contents
What I'm Working On
This page is my attempt to keep track of all the things I'm working on...
Forest conservation and restoration
- Improving the performance of Individual-Based Models for forests (with Yu He)
- 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
- Implementing RCanopus (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 and Sergey Gorbunov)
- Enhancing Fabric with quantum-safe cryptographic algorithms (with Bhargav Das, Amelia Holcombe, Geovandro Pereira, and Michele Mosca)
Energy systems
- Instrumenting campus buildings to measure electricity, chilled water, and steam heat consumption (with Ivy Liu, Yerbol Aussat, and Costin Ograda-Bratu)
- 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/Outcome
Winter/Spring 2020
- Better teleconferencing (with David Adeboye)
- Master's thesis in preparation
- Determining when to resize home energy storage systems
- Bachelor's thesis and "The Benefits of Dynamically Resizing Storage," Energy Storage Workshop at ACM eEnergy 2020,, June 2020.
Fall 2019
- 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, 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, 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, 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)
Last updated June 10, 2020