"The network is the computer."

Kamin Whitehouse
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Department of Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Virginia
151 Engineer's Way, P.O. Box 400740
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4740

Phone: (434) 982-2211
Fax: (434) 982-2214
Email: whitehouse AT cs DOT virginia DOT edu
Office: 217 Olsson Hall, UVa

Home page of Kamin Whitehouse

Areas of Interest

Large-scale wireless sensor networks, distributed applications.

Biographical Sketch

amin Whitehouse received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of California at Berkeley, where he worked on wireless sensor networks. He was awarded a Siebel Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Fellowship, and a National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship, among other honors. He served as an intern at Microsoft Research, Xerox' Palo Alto Research Center, Intel, and AT&T Bell Labs. He has coauthored twelve refereed publications, a book chapter, and a patent.

Research

hitehouse's reseach takes a holistic view of wireless sensor networks, exploring aspects of networking, hardware, and programming abstractions as required for real-world deployments. He produced a system to localize sensor nodes in multiple different environments, a key part of which is a new technique for non-parametric modeling and characterization of the physical environments and range sensors. One of his current projects focuses on providing a traditional environment for the development and debugging of wireless, embedded systems without sacrificing bandwidth or memory at run time.

Selected Publications

Macro-calibration in Sensor/Actuator Networks, K. Whitehouse and D. Culler, Mobile Networks and Applications Journal (MONET), Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM Press, June, 2003.

A Practical Evaluation of Radio Signal Strength for Ranging-based Localization, K. Whitehouse, C. Karlof, and D. Culler, ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), Special Issue on Localization Technologies and Algorithms, 2006.

A Robustness Analysis of Multi-hop Ranging-based Localization Appproximations, K. Whitehouse and D. Culler, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '06), Nashville, TN, April 2006.

Semantic Streams: a Framework for Composable Inference over Sensor Data, K. Whitehouse, J. Liu, and F. Zhao, European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Zurich, Switzerland, February 2006.

Exploiting the Capture Effect for Collision Detection and Recovery, K. Whitehouse, A. Woo, F. Jiang, J. Polastre, and D. Culler, IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS-II), Sydney, Australia, May 2005.

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