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Inventing networking & sensing technologies

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While our focus is always forward-looking, we want to acknowledge the work and people that have propelled us to this point.

  • Postdoctoral researchers

    Visiting researchers

    Other members

    PhD Fellows

    • Pan Hu, U. Massachusetts Amherst (2015-17)
    • Yibo Zhu, UC Santa Barbara (2015-17)
    • Fadel Adib, MIT (2014-16)
    • Ashish Patro, University of Wisconsin (2012-14)
    • Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam (opens in new tab), MIT (2010-2012)
    • Shravan Rayanchu (opens in new tab), University of Wisconsin (2009-11)
    • Rohan Narayana Murty (opens in new tab), Harvard (2008-10)
    • Aruna Balasubramanian, U. Massachusetts Amherst (2008-10)
    • Karthik Lakshminarayanan, UC Berkeley (2005-07)
    • Jinyang Li, MIT (2004-05)
    • Qiang Huang, Princeton (2004-05)
    • Magdelena Balazinska, MIT (2003-05)
    • Ratul Mahajan, University of Washington (2003-05)
    • Ranveer Chandra, Cornell (2002-05)
    • David Andersen, MIT (2002-04)

    Interns

      • Omid Alipourfard, Brown University
      • Kevin Boos, Rice University
      • Bo Chen, Ohio State University
      • Tiffany Chen, MIT
      • Seyed Fayazbakhsh, CMU
      • Jonas Fietz, EPFL
      • Rohan Gandhi, Purdue University
      • Petko Georgiev, U. Cambridge, U.K
      • Shubham Jain, Rutgers
      • Junchen Jiang, CMU
      • Yao Lu, University of Washington
      • Jon Mace, Brown University
      • Matthaios Olma, EPFL
      • Saman Naderiparizi, University of Washington
      • Justin Paupore, University of Michigan
      • Lalith Suresh Puthalath, TU-Berlin
      • Rahul Saladi, University of Minnesota
      • Lynn Salameh, University College London, U.K.
      • Aleksander Vitorovic, EPFL
      • Yang Wu, University of Pennsylvania
      • Chao Xie, University of Texas Austin
      • Haoyu Zhang, Princeton University
      • Yongle Zhang, University of Toronto
      • Hongze Zhao, Duke University
      • Yibo Zhu, University of California Santa Barbara
      • Danyang Zhuo, University of Washington
      • Abigail Atchison, Tahoma High School
      • Anil Shanbhag, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      • Shivani Bahl, Lakeside School (now at Cornell University)
      • Matt Calder, University of Southern California
      • Chen Chen, ETH Zurich
      • Kaifei Chen, University of California Berkeley
      • Tony Ferrese, University of California Berkeley
      • Peter Gao, University of California Berkeley
      • Robert Grandl, University of Wisconsin Madison
      • Kiryong Ha, Carnegie Mellon University
      • Pan Hu, UMASS Amherst
      • Ayush Kanodia, IIT Bombay
      • Junaid Khalid, University of Washington Madison
      • Rayman Preet Singh, University of Waterloo
      • Daniel Ohene-Kwofie, University of Witwatersrand
      • Qifan Pu, University of California Berkeley
      • Delsey Sabu, Seattle Pacific University
      • Haichen Shen, University of Washington
      • Clay Shepard, Rice University
      • Evangelia Skiani, Columbia University
      • Raajay Viswanathan, University of Wisconsin Madison
      • Tan Zhang, University of Wisconsin Madison
      • Yibo Zhu, University of California Santa Barbara
      • Chen Chen, Carnegie Mellon University
      • Yu-Han («Tiffany») Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      • Lara Deek, University of California Santa Barbara
      • Ilan Ari Fogel, University of California Los Angeles
      • Rohan Gandhi, Purdue University
      • Robert Grandl, University of Wisconsin Madison
      • Cho-Yao Hong, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
      • Xin Jin, Princeton University
      • Kyungmin («Jason») Lee, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
      • Frank Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      • Robert LiKamWa, Rice University
      • Ashish Patro, University of Wisconsin Madison
      • Chunyi Peng, University of California Los Angeles
      • Sergey Grizan, Russian Intern Program
      • Anil Atmanand Shanbhag, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
      • Clayton Shepard, Rice University
      • Lixin Shi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      • Ashish Vulimiri, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
      • Sangki Yun, University of Texas Austin
      • Mariya Zheleva, University of California Santa Barbara
      • Hongi («James») Zheng, Stanford University
      • Yibo Zhu, University of Texas Austin
      • Xuan Bao, Duke University
      • Apurv Bhartia, University of Texas Austin
      • Anuj Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University
      • Patrick Colp, University of British Columbia
      • Eduardo Cuervo Laffaye, Duke University
      • Qingxi Li, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
      • Brent Longstaff, University of California Los Angeles
      • Radhika Mittal, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
      • Ardalan Amiri Sani, Rice University
      • Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Massachusetts Institute Technology
      • Tingxin Yan, University of Massachusetts Amherst
      • Xia Zhou, University of California Santa Barbara
      • Sara Alspaugh, University of California Berkeley
      • Colin Dixon (opens in new tab), University of Washington Seattle
      • B. V. V. Sri Raj Dut, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
      • Daniel Halperin (opens in new tab), University of Wasington Seattle
      • Srinivas Krishnan, Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      • He Liu (opens in new tab), University of California San Diego
      • Justin Manweiler, Duke University
      • George P. Nychis, Carnegie Mellon University
      • Radhika Niranjan Mysore, University of California San Diego
      • Zhiyun Qian (opens in new tab), University of Michigan
      • Eric Rozner, University of Texas Austin
      • Bo Tan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
      • Ashok Anand (opens in new tab), University of Wisconsin
      • Mohammad Reza Alizadeh Attar, Stanford University
      • Aruna Balasubramanian, University of Massachusetts Amherst
      • Dae-ki Cho, Graduate Student, University of California Los Angeles
      • Hossein Falaki, University of California Los Angeles
      • Ang Li, Duke University
      • Rohan Narayana Murty (opens in new tab), Harvard University
      • Radhika Niranjan Mysore, University of California San Diego
      • Anh M. Nguyen, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign
      • George P. Nychis, Carnegie Mellon University
      • Ki-Woong Park, KAIST
      • Abhinav Pathak, Purdue University
      • Swapnil Patil, Carnegie Mellon University
      • Hariharan Rahul (opens in new tab), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      • Shravan Rayanchu (opens in new tab), University of Wisconsin
      • Joshua Reich (opens in new tab), Columbia University
      • Alan C. Shieh, Cornel University
      • Janani Sriram, Dartmouth University
      • Eeyore Wang, Carnegie Mellon University
      • Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Massachusetts Amherst
      • Mudit Jain, Indian Institute of Technology
      • Zhichun Li, , Northwestern University
      • Murtaza Motiwala, Georgia Institute of Technology
      • Patrick Verkaik (opens in new tab), University of California San Diego
      • Ying Zhang, University of Michigan
      • Zheng Zhang, Purdue University
      • Aruna Balasubramanian, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Vehicular Wi-Fi networking
      • Dhiman Barman (opens in new tab), University of California Riverside. IPTV management
      • Xu Chen, University of Michigan. Dependency graph analysis in enterprise networks
      • Brent Couvrette, Woodinville High School. Game bandwidth estimation
      • Abhinav Jain, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Internet connectivity in Microsoft’s shuttle system.
      • Vaishnav Janardhan, Columbia University. Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) implementation on Windows.
      • YongChul Kwon, University of Washington. Measuring and monitoring tools in Windows Live platform.
      • YonugKi Lee, Korea Advanced Institute for Science & Technology (KAIST). Game topological analysis
      • Lindsey Poole, Princeton University. Netdiff for ISP performance comparison
      • Ramya Raghavendra, University of California San Diego
      • Nilendu Sekhar, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Enterprise network management
      • Francisco Alvarez Cavazos, ITESM – Monterrey, Mexico.
      • Krishna Ramachandran, University of California Santa Barbara. Enabling group communications in wireless mesh networks
      • Lun Li, California Institute of Technolog. Generalizing fault detection in enterprise networked applications
      • Nikitas Liogkas, University of California Los Angeles. Self-diagnosing faults in web browsers
      • Rohan Murty (opens in new tab), Harvard University. Providing wireless access point functionality using desktop machines
      • Srikanth Kandula (opens in new tab), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Diagnosing faults in enterprise networks
      • Tulika Garg, Undergraduate, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkie. Implementing the Mesh Connectivity Layer (MCL) in QualNet
      • Vladimir Brik, University of Wisconsin. Self-diagnosing network faults in WiFi clients
      • Yuvraj Agarwal (opens in new tab), University of California San Diego.
      • Manish Anand, University of Michigan. Comparison study of 802.11 and 802.16
      • Ranveer Chandra (opens in new tab), Cornell University. Fault diagnosis in infrastructure wireless networks.
      • Pradeep Kyasanur, University of Illinois, Urbana Champion. Enhancing wireless mesh networks by using a separate control channel.
      • Ananth Rajagopala-Rao, University of California, Berkeley.
      • Sriram Ramabhadran, University of California, San Diego. Internet measurement
      • Sreedhar Veeravalli, Undergraduate, Indian Institute of Technology, India. Worked on TCPScope, a tool to analyze performance of TCP flows.
      • Can Vuran, Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia Tech. Worked on measurements of directional antennas.
      • Ashwin Baharambe (opens in new tab), Carnegie Mellon University. Internet gaming
      • Ranveer Chandra (opens in new tab), Cornell University. Native WiFi and fault diagnosis in infrastructure wireless networks
      • Dejan Kostic, Duke University. Light-weight distributed failure notifications (Fuse)
      • Ananth Rajagopala-Rao, University of California, Berkeley. Trouble-shooting wireless mesh networks
      • Amit Saha, Rice University. Developing tools for measuring corporate wireless networks
      • Maneesh Varshney, University of California, Los Angeles. Neighbor location determination and MAC with directional antennas
      • Ranveer Chandra (opens in new tab), Cornell University. MultiNet and placement of Internet TAPs in wireless mesh networks
      • Kyle Jamieson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bandwidth Sharing in Neighborhood Meshes
      • Karthik Lakshminarayanan, (opens in new tab) University of California, Berkeley. Worked on measurement of broadband networks
      • Eugene Shih, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hardware and systems aspects of the Universal Communicator.
      • Kunwadee Sripanidulchai, Carnegie Mellon University. Peer-to-peer system for sharing Web content and on-demand streaming media content
      • Anand Balachandran, University of California San Diego.
      • Li Li (opens in new tab), Cornell University. Power conserving algorithms in ad hoc sensor networks
      • Allen Miu (opens in new tab), Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mobility management within The CHOICE Network and its deployment.
      • Shoamin Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Worked on Location Determination (WISH) and StudioMIT (opens in new tab)

  • We work with academic institutions in a number of different ways. We sponsor a number of ACM and IEEE conferences; our researchers serve on steering and program committees of academic conferences and workshops; we serve on editorial boards of prestigious journals; via the Hawaii Academic outreach program, we support mobile computing courses and research at several universities; we invite colleagues from academia to visit us and we host events that provide a forum to brainstorm about new research.

    Founded / co-founded

    • SIGMOBILE (1997)
    • MC2R – Mobile Computing and Communications Review (1997)
    • MobiSys – International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (2003)
    • CoRoNet – Workshop on Cognitive Wireless Networking (2009)
    • MCS – International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services (2010)

    Brainstorming events

    For a number of years, we have organized ‘mindswap’ events between researchers from industry, academia, and government. These events enabled open discussions on important research topics and the challenges ahead. For the benefit of the community, any videos and presentation slides from these talks are available on the event’s web site. Events included:

    • New Results in Networking Research, Redmond, WA (Dec. 5, 2013)
    • New Directions in Wireless Systems Design, Redmond, WA (May 30, 2013)
    • New Directions in Networked Systems Design. Redmond, WA (October 31, 2012)
    • Data Analytics and the Networks that Enable Them, Woodinville, WA (June 18-19, 2012)
    • Mobile + Cloud, Westin Hotel, Bellevue, WA (June 2-3, 2010)
    • Cognitive Wireless Networking, Salish Lodge, Snoqualmie, WA (June 5-6, 2008)
    • High Speed TCP , Redmond, WA (February 5-6, 2007)
    • Research and Practice in Corporate/Campus Networks Snoqualmie, WA (June 1-2, 2006)
    • Wireless Networking: Goa, India (April 7-8, 2006)
    • Self Managing Networks, Kirkland, WA (Jun 1-2, 2005)
    • Mesh Networking: Snoqualmie, WA (Press Report) (June 23-24, 2004)

    Conference support and service

    We have consistently supported conferences on mobile systems, including MobiCom, HotMobile, S3, MobiSys, HotNets, SIGCOMM, DySPAN, NSDI, etc. For example, we’ve served as program chairs, on editorial boards, as information directors, and on steering committees for many of these conferences since 2011.

    Project Hawaii academic partners (2010-11)

    Fall 2011: Cambridge University, University of North Carolina, Purdue University, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Singapore Management University School of Information Systems, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Virginia Tech University, University of South Carolina, Old Dominion University, Clemson University, Temple University, University of Utah, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Arkansas, University of Oregon

    Spring 2011: University College London, Stanford University, Duke University, University of Arkansas, University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, New York University, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Stony Brook University, University of Houston, University of California Santa Barbara, Ohio State University, Temple University, Purdue University, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Leipzig, Germany, Indiana University, Purdue University, Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Brasil, University of Goettingen, University of Washington

    Fall 2010: Singapore Management University School of Information Systems, University of Michigan, University of Maryland, University of Arkansas, University of California at Santa Barbara, Michigan State University.

    Spring 2010: University of Southern California, University of Wisconsin Madison, Duke University

    Research center memberships

    Research support

    In addition to Project Hawaii support, and an extensive University Relations Program dedicated to funding research at universities, we also occasionally support faculty research in areas of our interests. Examples of institutes MCRC Researchers have supported in the past include:

    • University College London (Prof. Brad Karp, 2010)
    • Duke University (Prof. Romit Roy, 2009)
    • USC (Prof. Ramesh Govindan, 2009)
    • Harvard University (Prof. Matt Welsh, 2008)
    • University of Toronto (Prof. Yashar Ganjali, 2010; Prof. Stefan Saroiu, 2007)
    • Princeton University (Prof. vivek Pai, 2007)
    • UCLA (Prof. Todd Millstein, 2008)
    • MIT (Prof. Dina Katabi)
    • International Computer Science Institute Berkeley (Prof. Scott Shenker)
    • UCSD (Prof. Geoff Voelker)
    • CMU (Prof. Peter Steenkiste, 2010; Prof. Srini Seshan)
    • Columbia (Prof. Dan Rubensteini & Prof. Vishal Misra)
    • Texas A&M University (Prof. Nitin Vaidya)
    • University of California Berkeley
    • University of Maryland, College Park (Prof. William Arbaugh)
    • UT Austin (Prof. Lili Qiu)
    • University of Wisconsin-Madison (Prof. Suman Banerjee)
    • Rice (Prof. Ed. Knightly, 2010; Prof. T. S. Eugene Ng, 2007)

    Distinguished guests

    Our annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond offered us a unique opportunity to mingle with researchers in academia. Over the years, we have had the pleasure of hosting several distinguished researchers. Here is a partial list of some who have visited us:

    • Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University
    • Lin Zhong, Rice University
    • Rajesh Balan, Singapore Management University
    • Romit Roy, Duke University
    • Ramesh Govindan, University of Southern California
    • Suman Banerjee, Wisconsin University Madison