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 is a Program co-chair for ACM SenSys 2010.

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:

• Healthcare: We are part of a multi-university team working on continuous physiological monitoring using on-body sensors (Fieldstream). We are also collaborating with Yale Psychiatry on detecting drug use using on-body sensors and understanding what contexts relate to drug use.
• Crowdsourcing: Check out mCrowd - a micro-task market for mobile crowdsourcing. Also, look at our work on real-time image search on mobile phones that utilizes the Amazon Mechanical Turk for validation.
• Micro-energy Harvesting: See our recent work on hybrid-powered RFID-scale sensors. We are currently designing a sensing and networking stack for such devices.

• Exploring Micro-Incentive Strategies for Participant Compensation, Ubicomp 2011.
• CrowdSearch: Exploiting Crowds for Real-time Image Search on Phones, MOBISYS 2010.
• On the Limits of Hybrid Micro-Energy Harvesting on Mobile CRFID Sensors, MOBISYS 2010.
• Lazy-Adaptive Tree: An Optimized Index Structure for Flash Devices, VLDB 2009
  
• Block-switched Networks: A New Paradigm for Wireless Transport, NSDI 2009.
  

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