Design of wireless networked embedded systems with an emphasis on power aware system architectures and design techniques, energy efficient wireless communication, ultra low power system-on-chip design, wireless sensor networks, and enabling technologies for ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence.

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006.
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2002.
• B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 2000.

• HelioMote : Energy Harvesting

• ORCHESTRA : Hierarchical architectures for energy-efficient wireless systems using staged, complementary components

• RFAB : Reconfigurable Fabric

• SOCRATES : System on Chip architectures and design techniques for embedded systems

• PADS : Power Aware Distributed Systems

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• 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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• 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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• Vijay Raghunathan, Aman Kansal, Jason Hsu, Jonathan Friedman, Mani B Srivastava, "Design considerations for solar energy harvesting wireless embedded systems," IEEE International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) , April 2005. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200503-10)
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• Vijay Raghunathan, Cristiano Pereira, Mani B Srivastava, Rajesh K Gupta, "Energy aware wireless systems with adaptive power-fidelity tradeoffs," IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems , February 2005. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200502-04)
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• Trevor Pering, Vijay Raghunathan, Roy Want, "Exploiting radio hierarchies for power efficient wireless device discovery and connection setup," IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design , January 2005. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200501-03)
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• Edward K. Rice Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, School of Engg. & Applied Science, UCLA, 2005.
• Design Contest Award, ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2005.
• Outstanding Masters Student Award, Department of EE, UCLA, 2002.
• Graduate Fellowship, Department of EE, UCLA, 2000.
• Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design, 2000.