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310-825-7928

EMAIL:
thomas.schmid@ucla.edu

Thomas Schmid
 
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Wireless Communication, Sensor Networks, Routing Strategies, Embedded Systems  
EDUCATION

• B.Sc. in Communication System Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 2003
• M.Sc. in Communication System Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 2005
  (Thesis: "On Mac Layer and Bulk Transfers in Sensor Networks")
• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
  (Thesis: "Time in Wireless Embedded Systems")

 
PROJECTS

ARI : Angle-of-Arrival Assited Relative Interferometry

SDR : Software Defined Radio Research

SpotLight : Personal Natural Resource Consumption Profiler

FitSens : Future Individual Telehealth Systems with Embedded Networked Sensing

XCXT : Crystal Compensated Crystal Based Timer

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PUBLICATIONS

• Thomas Schmid, Prabal Dutta, Mani B Srivastava, "High-Resolution, Low-Power Time Synchronization an Oxymoron No More," IPSN , April 2010. (TR-UCLA-NESL-201001-04)
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• Younghun Kim, Thomas Schmid, Yan Wang, Mani B Srivastava, "Challenges in Resource Monitoring for Residential Spaces," BuildSys 2009 in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2009 , November 2009. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200909-03)
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• Dustin Torres, Jonathan Friedman, Thomas Schmid, Mani B Srivastava, "Software-Defined Underwater Acoustic Networking Platform," Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNET-2009) [Best Paper Award] , November 2009. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200908-01)
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• Younghun Kim, Thomas Schmid, Zainul M Charbiwala, Mani B Srivastava, "ViridiScope: Design and Implementation of a Fine Grained Power Monitoring System for Homes," 11th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing(UbiComp 2009) , September 2009. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200907-01)
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• Thomas Schmid, Zainul M Charbiwala, Roy S Shea, Mani B Srivastava, "Temperature Compensated Time Synchronization," IEEE Embedded Systems Letters , August 2009. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200905-05)
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
T. Schmid, H. Dubois-Ferrière, M. Vetterli. SensorScope: Experiences with a Wireless Building Monitoring Sensor Network, Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (REALWSN'05), Stockholm, Sweden, June 2005  
AWARDS AND HONORS
  • SNSF Prospective Researcher Fellowship 2010
  • Best Paper Award at WUWNET 2009
  • Best Paper Award at ACM SenSys 2008 for NAWMS
  • Dissertation Year Fellowship 2008/09
  • Winner of DAC/ISSCC Student Design Competition 2008
  • ISSCC 2007 Travel Grant
  • Chancellor's Prize Summer Support 2007
  • IPSN 2007 Travel Grant
  • SenSys 2006 Travel Grant
  • Chancellor's Prize Summer Support 2006
  • Chancellor's Prize Fellowship Fall 2006 - Spring 2006
 
INTERESTS
Rock Climbing, Hiking, Camping, Dancing  
PERSONAL WEBSITE
http://tschmid.webfactional.com  
 
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