Deepak Ganesan is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UMASS Amherst. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 2004 and his bachelors in Computer Science from IIT, Madras in 1998. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2006 and the IBM Faculty Award in 2008. He was selected as a UMass Junior Faculty Fellow in 2008, and a UMass Lilly Teaching Fellow in 2009. He was a Program co-chair for ACM SenSys 2010, and is currently chairing IEEE SECON 2013.

My research interests include systems, networking and data management issues in wireless, sensor and mobile networks. I lead the Sensor Networks Research Group.

Current research projects include:

• Backscatter network stack: Our work tackles key technical challenges to make backscatter a viable communication technology for single-hop sensor deployments.
• Understanding addictive behavior: Our NIH grant with Yale Psychiatry tries to detect drug use using on-body sensors and understand what real-world activities and interactions relate to drug use. We also have a UMass President's S&T Grant
  
• Computational Eyeglasses: We are designing an ultra-low-power architecture for affordable real-time computational eye glasses for visual context sensing.
  
• Mobile Crowdsourcing: We are analyzing labor dynamics in mobile task markets, and designing novel mobile applications that can take advantage of crowdsourcing. Also, check out mCrowd - a micro-task market for mobile crowdsourcing. 
• Fieldstream: We are part of a multi-university team working on continuous physiological monitoring using on-body sensors.
  

• Detecting Cocaine Use with Wearable Electrocardiogram Sensors, Ubicomp 2013
  
• Practical prediction and prefetch for mobile phones, Ubicomp 2013
• QuarkOS: Pushing the operating limits of micro-powered sensors, HotOS 2013
  
• Labor Dynamics in a Mobile Micro-Task Market, CHI 2013. Best Paper Award
  
• EnGuard: Protection of NFC Interactions on a Mobile Phone, MobiSys 2013
  
• Leveraging graphical models in mobile sensing, MobiSys 2013
  
• Fast App Launching for Mobile Devices using Predictive User Context, MobiSys 2012.
• Flit: A Bulk Transmission Protocol for RFID-Scale Sensors, MobiSys 2012.
• BLINK: A high throughput link layer for backscatter communication, MobiSys 2012.

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