Deepak Ganesan is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UMASS Amherst. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 2004 under the supervison of Deborah Estrin and John Heidemann, M.S. from USC in 2000, 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.

My research interests include systems, networking and data management issues in sensor networks. I lead the Sensor Networks Research Group and am also part of SUMA, Systems at UMASS.

Current research projects include:

• STONES: Flash-based measurement studies, storage systems, and index structures for designing storage-centric networked embedded systems.
• SenSearch: A distributed image search engine to efficiently search across images stored on distributed camera sensors, imagers, and cellphones.
• Hop: Fast wireless transport for mesh networks and DTNs. Uses a combination of techniques to reduce overhead and collisions. Achieves order of magnitude improvement over TCP/UDP.
• MUDS: Design of a progressive data transmission scheme to optimize utility across multiple diverse users (meteorologist, researcher, emergency manager) in a high data-rate radar sensor network.
• RiverNet: A solar-powered sensor network comprising underwater cameras, hydrophones and temperature sensors for monitoring and modeling of rivers.

• Current

  • Devesh Agrawal
  • Jeremy Gummeson
  • Ming Li
  • Tingxin Yan

• Alumni

  • Purushottam Kulkarni (co-advised with Prashant Shenoy - Asst. Professor at IIT Bombay)
  • Gaurav Mathur (Google)