Sayandeep Sen Email: sdsen@cs.wisc.edu http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~sdsen Research Interests ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Interested in development (protocol/ application/ algorithm), measurement and analysis of systems. Currently focusing on mobile and wireless networking systems. Education ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PhD in Computer Sciences (ongoing) University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, U.S.A. Fall 2007 - Present, Minor - E.C.E (Communication Theory) Research Advisor: Prof. Suman Banerjee Thesis: Value-aware Networking for Wireless Data Delivery. M. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering (2006) Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India Fall 2004 - Spring 2006 Research Advisor: Prof. Bhaskaran Raman Thesis: Topology Planning for Long Distance Wireless Mesh Networks. B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering (2004) Kalyani University, West Bengal, India Fall 2000 - Spring 2004 Achievements & Scholarships -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Google Fellowship in Mobile Computing, one among 14 recipients in U. S./Canada (2011-2012). Lawrence H. Landweber NCR Fellowship in Distributed Systems by the CS Dept of UW Madison (2011). CS summer reseach assistantship by the CS Dept of UW Madison (2008). Best Paper award at INFOCOM 2008. Research-I-Foundation research assistantship by CSE Dept of IIT Kanpur (Fall'06-Spring'07). Research Experience ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summer Intern Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, with Dr. Milind Buddhikot (Summer'09, Summer'10, Fall'10) Worked on design and implementation of cognitive whitespace femtocells. Summer Intern Microsoft Research Redmond, with Dr. Sanjeev Mehrotra (Summer'08) Worked on design and implementation of a reliable transport protocol for data streaming applications. Research Assistant WiNGs Research Group, with Prof. Suman Banerjee (Aug'07 - Present) Working on wireless network protocol stack redesign for media delviery (See SIGCOMM'10 & NSDI'10 paper) Worked on performance characterization of urban wide-area wireless networks. (See IMC'08 & IMC'11 paper) Worked on design and implementation of wireless network coding algorithms. (See Sigmetrics'08 paper) Research Assistant Department of CSE, with Prof. Bhaskaran Raman (Aug'05 - May'07) Worked on design, development and measurement of low cost 802.11b based rural community networks. (See MOBICOM'06, WWW'07 and INFOCOM'08 paper) Worked on understanding the social and economic aspects of a rural telephony service using VoIP. (See ICTD'06 paper) Publications ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Journal On the Feasibility of the Link Abstraction in Wireless Mesh Networks, Bhaskaran Raman, Kameswari Chebrolu, Dattatraya Gokhale, Sayandeep Sen, Accepted for publication in IEEE TON. Conference Can they hear me now?: A case for a client-assisted approach to monitoring wide-area wireless networks, Sayandeep Sen, Jongwon Yoon, Joshua Hare, Justin Ormont, Suman Banerjee, IMC'11 (to appear). Hybrid Window and Rate Based Congestion Control for Delay Sensitive Applications, Sanjeev Mehrotra, Jin Li, Sudipta Sengupta, Manish Jain, Sayandeep Sen, GLOBECOM'10. Design and Implementation of an "Approximate" Communication System for Wireless Media Applications Sayandeep Sen, Syed Gilani, Shreesha Srinath, Steve Schmitt, Suman Banerjee, SIGCOMM'10. Scalable WiFi Media Delivery through Adaptive Broadcasts, Sayandeep Sen, Neel Kamal Madabhushi, Suman Banerjee, NSDI'10. A Measurement Study of a Commercial-grade Urban WiFi Mesh Vladimir Brik, Shravan Rayanchu, Sharad Saha, Sayandeep Sen, Vivek Shrivastava, Suman Banerjee, IMC'08. Avoiding File System Micromanagement with Range Writes, Ashok Anand, Sayandeep Sen, Andrew Krioukov, Florentina Popovici, Aditya Akella, Andrea A. Dusseau, Remzi A. Dusseau, Suman Banerjee, OSDI'08. Loss-Aware Network Coding for Unicast Wireless Sessions: Design, Implementation, and Performance Evaluation, Shravan Rayanchu, Sayandeep Sen, Jianming Wu, Sudipta Sengupta, and Suman Banerjee, SIGMETRICS'08. On the Feasibility of the Link Abstraction in (Rural) Mesh Networks, Dattatraya Gokhale, Sayandeep Sen, Kameswari Chebrolu, Bhaskaran Raman, INFOCOM'08 (BEST PAPER AWARD) Long Distance Wireless Mesh Network Planning: Problem Formulation and Solution, Sayandeep Sen, and Bhaskaran Raman, WWW'07. Long-Distance 802.11b Links: Performance Measurements and Experience, Kameswari Chebrolu, Bhaskaran Raman, and Sayandeep Sen, MOBICOM'06. Rural Telephony: A Socio-Economic Case Study, Sayandeep Sen, Sukant Kole, and Bhaskaran Raman, International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD-2006), 2006. Workshop Exploiting "Approximate Communication" for Mobile Media Applications, Sayandeep Sen, Stephen Schmitt, Mason Donahue, Suman Banerjee, The 10th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile'09). 2009 Posters & Presentation Exploiting "Approximate Communication" for Wireless Media Applications, Sayandeep Sen, Stephen Schmitt, Mason Donahue, Suman Banerjee, MOBICOM'08 SRC. Effect of Height (Fresnel Clearance) on Signal Strength and Throughput for Medium and Long Distance Wireless Links, Madhuresh Agrawal, and Sayandeep Sen. The 1st Workshop on WIreless Systems: Advanced Research and Development, COMSWARE 2007 Workshop, Jan 2007. Presentation on "Cost Effective Wireless Innovations" at Air Jaldi Summit, Dharamsala, India, October 2006 Patents ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ USPTO App. No.# 20110176590 - Wireless communication system mapping data bits to symbol bit positions according to error rates of those bit positions and data content. USPTO App. No.# 20110176596 - Wireless communication system controlling transmission parameters of data units according to data usefulness. USPTO App. No.# 20100195488 - Optimized transport protocol for delay-sensitive data. Skills ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Verilog Linux kernel programming, Click modular router, NS2 Profssional Activities ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee: MobiSys PhD Forum 2009, IEEE SECON 2012 Technical Reviewer: Conferences: ACM/USENIX NSDI 2011, ACM MobiCom 2010, IEEE Infocom (2009,2010, 2011), IEEE Globecom (2006, 2010), IEEE WiMesh 2008, IEEE COMSNETS 2009 Journals: IEEE ToN, IEEE TMC, IEEE TPDS, CACM Magazines: ACM MC2R, Wireless Networks References ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Suman Banerjee Prof. Bhaskaran Raman Dept. of Computer Sciences Dept. of Computer Science & Engg. University of Wisconsin-Madison Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Email: suman@cs.wisc.edu Email: br@cse.iitb.ac.in Dr. Milind M. Buddhikot Prof. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Dept. of Computer Sciences Wireless Network Elements Research University of Wisconsin-Madison Email: milind.buddhikot@alcatel-lucent.com Email: remzi@cs.wisc.edu