Portrait of Arjmand Samuel

Arjmand Samuel

Principal Program Manager

Recent activity

    • Project Catapult: (opens in new tab) Catapult is a Microsoft project investigating the use of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to improve performance, reduce power consumption, and provide new capabilities in the datacenter. Arjmand led the design, development and execution of the academic research outreach for this project.
    • Lab of Things (opens in new tab): Lab of Things (LoT) is a flexible platform for experimental research that uses connected devices in homes and beyond. Arjmand co-led this project from its inception to deployment at scale for academic research.
    • Project Hawaii: Project Hawaii is set of services designed for cloud-enhanced mobile applications that access a set of cloud services and Windows Azure for computation and data storage. Arjmand led the design, development and execution of academic outreach of Project Hawaii.
    • TouchDevelop: TouchDevelop allows you to create apps everywhere on all your devices! For Windows Phone and the web. In the TouchDevelop programming environment you write scripts by tapping on the screen. Arjmand co-led the academic outreach for this project.
    • Software Engineering Innovation Foundation: Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) encouraged academic research in software engineering technologies, tools, practices, and teaching methods. Arjmand led and co-led SEIF for four years.

  • Chaired workshop: First Project Catapult workshop, July 10th 2015, Redmond, Washington.

    Chaired workshop: Research on an IoT Platform, May 12th 2015, Devices and Networking Summit 2015, Paris, France.

    Chaired workshop: Functional Materials and Process Enabled Device Electronics, May 12th 2015, Devices and Networking Summit 2015, Paris, France.

    Invited talk: Paris Tech Days 2015, February 10th 2015, Paris, France. “Microsoft Research Lab of Things : From IoT Research and Prototyping, to Deploying at Scale”.

    Chaired workshop: Lab of Things Workshop 2014, July 16, 2014, Redmond, Washington, United States.

    Interviewed during Research in Focus session: New Hope for People Living with Paralysis.

    Chaired session and talk: In-situ Research Using Connected Devices—Challenges and Opportunities, at Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2014, Redmond, WA, July 14-15 2014.

    Chaired session and talk: Lab of Things: An Internet of Things Research Platform at the Latin American Faculty Summit 2014, Vina del Mar, Chile, May 7-9 2014.

    Keynote talk: Software Engineering Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Internet of Things at the Software Engineering Innovation Foundation Brazil Workshop 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 25-26, 2013

    Chaired session: Towards a Research Platform for Internet of Things (IoT) at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2013.

    Co-authored book: touchdevelop — programming on the go by Nigel Horspool (opens in new tab) (University of Victoria), Judith Bishop, Arjmand Samuel, Nikolai Tillmann, Michał Moskal, Jonathan de Halleux, Manuel Fähndrich (Microsoft Research). Read book (opens in new tab)

    IEEE Computer Society Webinar – Developing Mobile Apps on the Go – TouchDevelop for all Platforms by Arjmand Samuel, Nikolai Tillmann and Peli de Halleux. February 21st 2013. View recorded Webinar (opens in new tab)

    Chaired First TouchDevelop Workshop 2013 at Mountain View, CA, USA. February 14-15 2013.

    Co-chaired SEIF 2012 Day, Redmond, WA, USA July 18th 2012.

    Keynote presentation: Putting the Cloud in your Hands – Marriage of Cloud Computing with Smart Devices, 4 (opens in new tab)th (opens in new tab) Annual Software as a Service/Cloud Computing Conference (opens in new tab), UNC Charlotte, April 25th 2012

    Invited talk: Project Hawaii – A Research Perspective at Open Data for Open Science 2012, Redmond, WA, USA, April 4-6 2012.

    Business value winner at Microsoft Garage Science Fair 2012, (opens in new tab) project featured in Seattle Times. Visit Seattle Times Website (opens in new tab)

    Invited Talk: Project Hawaii: Mobile and Cloud (opens in new tab), Seminar at Great Lake Consortium for Petascale Computing, NCSA (UIUC) on March 28th, 2011

    Invited Talk: Hawaii – Project Companion for Cloud-enabled Mobile Computing (opens in new tab), Co-located with SIGCSE 2011 (opens in new tab), Dallas, Texas, March 9th 2011.