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EMAIL:
kansal@microsoft.com

Aman Kansal
 
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Wireless and embedded networks. Currently working on robotic and mobile sensor networks, with a special focus on controlling sensing uncertainty and communication performance. Also working on power management for energy harvesting systems.  
EDUCATION

• BS in EE, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, 2001
• MS in Communications and Signal Processing, IIT Bombay, 2002
  (Thesis: "A Handoff Protocol for Mobility in Bluetooth Public Access")
• PhD in Electrical Engineering (Communications), UCLA, 2006
  (Thesis: "Mobility for Sensing Uncertainty Reduction in Sensor Networks")

 
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Co-chair (Organization), ACM Mobisys Workshop on Applications of Mobile and Embedded Systems 2004.  
PROJECTS

Ragobot : Real Action Gaming Robots

NIMS : Networked Infomechanical Systems

Coordinated Actuation : Coordinated Actuation for Sensing Uncertainty Reduction

HelioMote : Energy Harvesting

Data Mule : Mobility for enhanced performance in sensor networks

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PUBLICATIONS

• Jason Hsu, Sadaf Zahedi, Aman Kansal, Vijay Raghunathan, Mani B Srivastava, "Adaptive Duty Cycling for Energy Harvesting Systems," ISLPED 2006 , October 2006. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200609-01)
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• Arun A Somasundara, Aman Kansal, David Jea, Deborah Estrin, Mani B Srivastava, "Controllably Mobile Infrastructure for Low Energy Embedded Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) , August 2006. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200503-06)
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• Aman Kansal, Jason Hsu, Mani B Srivastava, Vijay Raghunathan, "Harvesting Aware Power Management for Sensor Networks," 43rd Design Automation Conference (DAC) , July 2006. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200605-02)
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• Aman Kansal, Jason Hsu, Sadaf Zahedi, Mani B Srivastava, "Power Management in Energy Harvesting Sensor Networks," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (in revision) , May 2006. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200605-01)
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• Aman Kansal, Aditya Ramamoorthy, Mani B Srivastava, Gregory J Pottie, "On sensor Network Lifetime and Data Distortion," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) , September 2005. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200506-01)
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Please see this link  
PERSONAL WEBSITE
http://research.microsoft.com/~kansal/  
 
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