Working on

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 work and outcomes

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)

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Last updated June 10, 2020