Andrew Parker

Computer Science Graduate Student

 

Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
Computer Science Department
University of California, Los Angeles

 

 

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Research Interests
Adaptive sampling, polygonal random fields, bayesian regression, and sensor networks.

 

Experience
UCLA, Graduate Student Researcher, 2003—Present
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Academic Part-Time, 2009—Present
Google, Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2008
Microsoft Research, Research Intern, Summer 2005
Akamai Technologies, Software Develolper, 1998—2002
MIT, Undergraduate Reseacher, 1996—1997

 

Education
B.S., MIT, Computer Science. 2001

 

Publications and Tech Reports

PDF Sasank Reddy, Andrew Parker, Josh Hyman, et al.
"Image browsing, processing, and clustering for participatory sensing," EmNets '07: Proceedings of the 4th workshop on Embedded networked sensors, Cork, Ireland: ACM, 2007, pp. 13--17.
 
PDF Andrew Parker, Sasank Reddy, Thomas Schmid, Kevin Chang, et al.
"Network System Challenges in Selective Sharing and Verification for Personal, Social, and Urban-Scale Sensing Applications," Proceedings of the 5th Workshop Hot Topics in Networks, Irvine, CA, USA: ACM, 2006, pp. 37--42.
 
PDF Jeff Burke, Deborah Estrin, Mark Hansen, Andrew Parker, et al.
"Participatory Sensing," WSW at SenSys 2006, Boulder, CO, USA: ACM, 2006.
 
PDF Jeremy Elson and Andrew Parker.
"Tinker: a tool for designing data-centric sensor networks," IPSN '06: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Information processing in sensor networks, Nashville, Tennessee, USA: ACM, 2006, pp. 350 - 357.
 
PDF Mani Srivastava, Mark Hansen, Jeff Burke, Andrew Parker, et al.
"Wireless Urban Sensing Systems," in CENS Technical Report 65, 2006.
 
PDF Lewis Girod, Martin Lukac, Andrew Parker, et al.
"A Reliable Multicast Mechanism for Sensor Network Applications," in CENS Technical Report 48, 2005.
 
Link Estrin, Kansal, Somasundara, Srivastava, Govindan, Elson, Girod, Stathopoulos, and Parker.
"DTN for Sensor Netorks: Current Plans" in CENS Technical Report 73, 2004.
 

 

Patents

Link Patent 7096263 Issued Aug 22, 2006
"Method for predicting file download time from mirrored data centers in a global computer network,"
F. Thomson Leighton, Ravi Sundaram, Adrian Soviani, Matthew Levine, Andrew Parker, Silvina Hanono-Wachman, Arthur W. Berger.
 

 

Talks and Tutorials

PPT "Participatory Sensing"
Jeff Burke and Andrew Parker - October 2006 Talk - CENS 4th Annual Research Review
 
PPT "Emstar Tutorial"
Martin Lukac, Andrew Parker, Richard Guy - September 2005 Tutorial - IEEE SECON 2005
 
"Adopting Ideas from Interplanetary Networking for Sensor Network Applications"
November 2004 - CENS Technical Seminar.
 

 

Posters and Demos

PDF "Continuous Sensing and its Implications for Modeling Uncertain Environmental Phenomena"
Andrew Parker, Mark Hansen, Deborah Estrin - October 2008 CENS 6th Annual Research Review
 
Link "Challenges in Adaptive Path Sampling with Mobile Sensors"
Andrew Parker, Mark Hansen, Deborah Estrin - October 2007 CENS 5th Annual Research Review
 
PDF "Partisan: Towards an Architecture for Participatory Sensing"
Gong Chen, Andrew Parker, Sasank Reddy, Jeff Burk, Mark Hansen, Deborah Estrin, and Mani Srivastava - October 2006 CENS 4th Annual Research Review
 
"UrbanCENS: Sensing with the Urban Context in Mind"
S. Reddy, T. Schmid, A. Parker, J. Porway, G. Chen, A. Joki, J. Burke, M. Hansen, D. Estrin, and M. Srivastava. - September 2006 Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2006)
 
"Selective Sharing, Verification, and Data Dissemination in Urban Sensing Applications"
Andrew Parker, Deborah Estrin, Mark Hansen - May 2006 UCLA School of Engineering and Science Research Review
 
PPT "Seismic Array Software System"
Sam Irvine, Martin Lukac, Andrew Parker, Allen Husker, Igor Stubailo, Richard Guy, Paul Davis, Deborah Estrin - October 2005 CENS 3rd Annual Research Review
 
PPT "Emstar Software Environment"
Lewis Girod, Thanos Stathopoulos, Nithya Ramanathan, Martin Lukac, Andrew Parker, Richard Guy, Deborah Estrin - October 2005 CENS 3rd Annual Research Review
 
Link "Demonstration of Emstar"
Andrew Parker, Lewis Girod, Thanos Stathopoulos, Jeremy Elson, Richard Guy, Deborah Estrin. 2nd International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2004)
 
"Delay Tolerant Networking for Sensor Networks"
Andrew Parker, Athanasios Stathopolous, Jeremy Elson, Lewis Girod, Ning Xu, Alberto Cerpa, Ramesh Govindan, Deborah Estrin October 2004 CENS 2nd Annual Research Review
 

 

Teaching

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Guest Lecturer (with Tom Schoellhammer)
STATS202A, Fall 2007: Statistics Programming
  • "Programming in Python"
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Guest Lecturer (with Martin Lukac and Nithya Ramanathan)
EE206A, Spring 2005: Mobile and Wireless Networked Computing Systems
  • "Emstar"
DOC Teaching Assistant CS113, Winter 2005: Introduction to Distributed Embedded Systems
 
Guest Lecturer (with Martin Lukac) CS113, Winter 2005: Introduction to Distributed Embedded Systems
  • "Emstar I"
  • "Emstar II"
  • "Emstar interfaces and services"
  • "Emstar running, debugging, and use"
  • "Reliable Transport and DTN"
 

Misc

PDF CS231, Winter 2005: Types and Programming Languages
"The LENT Type-Qualifier" (Project Write-up)
Andrew Parker
 
PDF CS239, Spring 2004: Software Verification & Readable Systems
"Bolt: An Architecture Description Language for Sensor Networks"
Andrew Parker
 
Link CS213, Winter 2004: Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems
"Micro Diffusion: One-Phase-Pull in Emstar"
Andrew Parker
 
Link EE202A, Fall 2003: Real-time Embedded Systems
"A Guide For the Clueless: IEEE 802.15.4 Standard for Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (LR-WPAN)"
Andrew Parker
 

 

 

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*Publications
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*Computer Science Dept.

 

 

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last update: 11/05/2008