I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, working under the aegis of Alf Weaver. My research interests are centered on the challenges associated with body area sensors and networks thereof, particularly their power restrictions and security concerns. Body area sensor networks (and their interfaces with other systems) may be considered a subset of emerging cyber-physical systems, in which computational and physical processes coordinate to effect novel applications.

I graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University (in Nashville, TN) in May 2007 with a B.E. in Computer Engineering and Mathematics and a minor in Engineering Management. I have since earned an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in May 2009.

Contact


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Postal:

Department of Computer Science
University of Virginia
151 Engineer's Way, PO Box 400740
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4740

Courier: Olsson Hall, Room 227, Seat 1
Phone: 434-982-2297
Fax: 434-982-2214

Research and Work


Publications and Articles [BibTeX]
S. C. Jocke, J. F. Bolus, S. N. Wooters, A. D. Jurik, A. C. Weaver, T.N. Blalock, and B.H. Calhoun. "A 2.6-µW sub-threshold mixed-signal ECG SoC," in Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Kyoto, Japan, June 2009. [pdf]
B. H. Calhoun, J. Bolus, S. Khanna, A. D. Jurik, A. C. Weaver, and T. N. Blalock. "Sub-threshold operation and cross-hierarchy design for ultra low power wearable sensors," in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2009. [pdf]
A. D. Jurik, J. F. Bolus, A. C. Weaver, B. H. Calhoun, and T. N. Blalock. "Mobile health monitoring through biotelemetry," in International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), Los Angeles, CA, April 2009. [pdf] [presentation pdf 4/2/09]
A. D. Jurik. "Biotelemetry and body sensors: Enabling ECG monitoring." Master's thesis, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, May 2009. [pdf] [presentation pdf 3/18/09]
C. C. Heath, R. Balachandran, O. Majdani, A. D. Jurik, T. Edwards, R. F. Labadie, and J. M. Fitzpatrick. "Disablement of a surgical drill via CT guidance to protect vital anatomy," in SPIE Medical Imaging, Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA, February 2009. [pdf]
A. D. Jurik and A. C. Weaver. "Control, analysis, and visualization of body sensor streams," in International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT), Montreal, QC, Canada, February 2009. [pdf] [presentation pdf 2/25/09]
A. D. Jurik and A. C. Weaver. "Body area networks: wireless access to physiological data," IEEE Software, vol. 26, no. 1, January 2009. [pdf]
A. D. Jurik and A. C. Weaver. "Remote medical monitoring," IEEE Computer, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 96-99, April 2008. [pdf]
Talks and Miscellany

Virginia Council of Graduate Schools (VCGS) Fourth Annual Graduate Student Research Forum - February 10, 2009. Remote Medical Monitoring with Body Sensors. [poster pdf] [group picture .png]

Theory Lunch - November 6, 2008. Claude Shannon's A Mathematical Theory of Communication. [presentation pdf] [Shannon's Paper]

University of Virginia Computer Science REU, Summer 2006. Viewing Medical Images on a PDA. [presentation pdf]

Florida State University School of Computational Science REU, Summer 2005. Laser-assisted Particle Removal. [presentation pdf]

Résumé / Curriculum Vitae [pdf] (as of March 2009)

Courses


Spring 2009
CS 851 - Cybersystems, Jack Stankovic
Fall 2008
CS 851 - Special Topics in Sensor Networks, Kamin Whitehouse
CS 615 - Programming Languages, Wes Weimer
ECE 576 - Digital Signal Processing, Scott Acton
Summer 2008
MATH 510 - Mathematical Probability, Daria Snider
Spring 2008
CS 661 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Gabriel Robins
CS 656 - Operating Systems, Marty Humphrey
CS 686 - Dependability, John Knight
CS 671 - Compilers, Kim Hazelwood
Fall 2007
CS 660 - Theory of Computation, Gabriel Robins
CS 654 - Computer Organization, Sudhanva Gurumurthi
CS 651 - Principles of Cryptography, abhi shelat
CS 696 - Computer Science Perspectives, Mary Lou Soffa