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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...
  
==Blockchain Research==
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==Forest conservation and restoration==
  
* 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)
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* Improving the performance of Individual-Based Models for forests (with Yu He)
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* Linking Earth observation to carbon sequestration certificates (with Alan Marko)
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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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* 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)
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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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* 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==
* Using computer science to improve forest landscape restoration (with Anil Madhavapeddy and David Coomes)
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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)
 
 
* 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 big a storage battery to buy to achieve a certain level of grid independence (with Brad Huang and Fiodar Kazhamiaka)
 
  
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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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* 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): Master's thesis in preparation
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* Better teleconferencing (with David Adeboye)
* 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.  
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**Master's thesis in preparation
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* Determining when to resize home energy storage systems
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**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: 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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* [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.11229 Conflict resolution] for hot keys in Fabric
* 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.  
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** 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
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**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: C. 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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* Improving the performance of Hyperledger Fabric
* Using Fabric to provide an audit trail for electric vehicle charging (with Christian Gorenflo, Lukasz Golab, and SWTCH EV Inc.)
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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
* Using deep neural networks to compute optimal (MPC-computed) storage operation strategies (with Fiodar Kazhamiaka and Catherine Rosenberg)
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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.
 
* 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 (with Rishav Agarwal, Dhruv Kumar, Pedro Velmovitsky, Plinio Morita, and Lukasz Golab)
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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.
  
 
* 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)
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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
  
 
* 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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Last updated Jan 9, 2020
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Last updated June 10, 2020

Revision as of 08:43, 11 June 2020

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
  • Using deep neural networks to compute optimal (MPC-computed) storage operation strategies
  • 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)
  • 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