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Rahul Balani
 
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dynamic software reconfiguration for Sensor Networks
Data dissemination protocols for wireless sensor networks
Sensor network middleware - Virtual Machines
Manipulating/Extending data storage capabilites on sensor nodes (currently working on mica2 motes). 		 
EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Technology (BTech.) in Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2004
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering - Embedded Computing Systems, University of California at Los Angeles, 2006
  (Thesis: "Multi-level Software Reconfiguration in Sensor Networks")

 
PROJECTS

• SRS : Design and Run-time Techniques for Physically Coupled Software

• DVM : Multi-level Software Reconfiguration for Sensor Networks through Dynamically Extensible Virtual Machine

• Network Storage : Network Persistent Storage for Sensor networks

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PUBLICATIONS

• David Jea, Rahul Balani, Julan Hsu, Daeki Cho, Mario Gerla, Mani B Srivastava, "Diagnostic Quality Driven Physiological Data Collection for Personal Healthcare," 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) , August 2008. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200806-01)
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• Rahul Balani, Akhilesh Singhania, Simon Han, Mani B Srivastava, "ViRe: Virtual Reconfiguration Framework for Embedded Processing in Distributed Image Sensors," Workshop on Adaptive and Reconfigurable Embedded Systems (APRES), held in conjunction with RTAS , April 2008. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200804-05)
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• Rahul Balani, Simon Han, Ramkumar Rengaswamy, Ilias Tsigkogiannis, Mani B Srivastava, "Multi-level Software Reconfiguration for Sensor Networks," ACM Conference on Embedded Systems Software (EMSOFT) , October 2006. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200608-01)
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AWARDS AND HONORS
EE Department Fellowship, UCLA : Fall 2004 - Winter 2005; UCLA Graduate Division Fellowship : Fall 2008  
INTERESTS
Travelling, hiking, exploring new places, organizing events, socializing, dancing, music (hip-hop/RnB and country, besides Indian pop/bhangra), Roller Coasters!!!!, and the latest - Racquetball. (Bungee jumping - coming soon! Sky-diving - a little later!)  
PERSONAL WEBSITE
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~rahulb/  
 
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