Brad Campbell - UVa

My Research

Ubiquitous computing, the Internet of Things, wearable and implantable technology, and smart homes/building/factories promise to bring billions of new embedded devices online in the next decade. My research focuses on how to design and build systems to ensure these devices are effective, unobtrusive, and scalable. I ground my projects in real applications, spanning from more efficient buildings to smarter cities to healthier individuals.

My work involves building real prototypes and demonstrating them at reasonable scale. This systems approach includes building the hardware itself, designing and deploying gateways that providing networking and services for the embedded devices, and supporting the deployments with a cloud infrastructure for processing and visualization.

I’m looking for motivated EE/CpE/CS Ph.D. students to join my lab. If you are interested in building sensors, networking devices, deploying systems, or designing better IoT systems, get in touch.

News

• July, 2024: Nabeel is now an Assistant Teaching Professor at UCSB!
• March, 2024: Fateme won 2024 Raven Society Scholarship!
• September, 2023: Nabeel was awarded a UVA Engineering Endowed Graduate Fellowship!
• September, 2023: NSF is supporting our effort to grow the TockOS ecosystem!
• May 3, 2023: Nabeel won the CS Department Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award!
• May 3, 2023: Marshall won the CS Department Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award!
• May 3, 2023: Fateme won the CS Department Outstanding Graduate Service Award!
• April 24, 2023: Nurani was selected as a 2023 CPS Rising Star!
• February 10, 2023: I was delighted to speak at the UC Merced EECS Seminar.
• November 29, 2022: Nurani won the Link Lab Seminar Award!
• November 21, 2022: Nabeel won a UVA Engineering Teaching Fellowship! We will be co-teaching a wireless IoT course Sp’23.
• November, 2022: Rabbi and Tushar were awarded UVA Engineering Endowed Graduate Fellowships!
• August, 2022: We organized a “Build an Internet” workshop at C4K in Charlottesville.
• February, 2022: NSF awarded my CAREER proposal!
• November, 2021: My student Nabeel was awarded Best Presentation at the SenSys/BuildSys 2021 PhD Forum!
• November, 2019: Our paper on unobtrusive occupancy detection was awarded best paper at DFHS’19!
• August, 2018: Our Living Link Lab project was funded!
• August, 2017: Joined the CS department at UVa!
• August 8, 2017: Attended a workshop about teaching for new CS faculty.
• April 13, 2017: Successfully defended my dissertation!

Teaching

• F24: CPS1 - Technology and Ethics, CS6501 - Smart and Healthy Buildings
• S24: CS/ECE4501 - Wireless for the Internet of Things
• F23: CPS1 - Technology and Ethics, CS6501 - Smart and Healthy Buildings
• S23: CS/ECE4501 - Wireless for the Internet of Things
• F22: CPS1 - Comm, Test-Beds & Policy, CS6501 - Smart and Healthy Buildings
• S22: CS4457/ECE4457 - Computer Networking
• F21: CPS1 - Comm, Test-Beds & Policy, CS6501 - Smart and Healthy Buildings
• F20: CS4457/ECE4457 - Computer Networking, CPS1 - Comm, Test-Beds & Policy
• S20: CS6456 - Advanced Operating Systems
• F19: CS6456 - Advanced Operating Systems, CPS1 - Comm, Test-Beds & Policy
• S19: CS4457/ECE4457 - Computer Networking
• F18: CS6501 - Embedded Operating Systems
• S18: CS4457/ECE4457 - Computer Networking
• F17: CS6501/ECE6501 - IoT Sensors and Systems

Service

• 2024 TPCs: SenSys, BuildSys
• 2023 TPCs: MobiCom, SIGCOMM, SenSys, BuildSys
• 2022 TPCs: MobiCom, SenSys
• 2021 TPCs: MobiCom, SenSys, BuildSys
• 2020 TPCs: IPSN, MobiCom, BuildSys
• 2019 TPCs: MobiCom, IoTDI, BuildSys, ENSsys
• 2018 TPCs: IPSN, MobiSys, BuildSys, ENSsys
• 2017 TPCs: IPSN, SenSys, BuildSys, ENSsys, SafeThings
• 2016 TPCs: ENSsys
• 2015 TPCs: ENSsys

Students / Post-Docs

Post-Docs

• Dong Chen (Co-advised with Arsalan Heydarian)

Graduate

• Marshall Clyburn (PhD, CS)
• Tushar Routh (PhD, CpE)
• Fateme Nikseresht (PhD, CS)
• Viswajith Govinda Rajan (PhD, CpE)

Undergraduate

Alumni

• Victor Sobral (PhD’24, CpE) (Co-advised with Jon Goodall) → Postdoc, UVA
• Jiechao Gao (PhD’24, CS)
• Nabeel Nasir (PhD’24, CS) → Assistant Teaching Professor, UCSB
• Nurani Saoda (PhD’23, CpE) → Postdoc, UIUC
• Wenpeng Wang (PhD’23, CpE) → Apple

• Rabbi Masum Billah (PhD’23, CS) → Amazon

• Ryan P. Lenfant (MS’23) → NASK Inc.
• G Michael Fitzgerald (MS’21) → NBBI
• Kai Lin (MS’21) → Ernst & Young
• Li-Pang Huang (ME’20) → UVA Dev Hub
• Samyukta Venkat (MS’20) → EY

• Alexander Sarris (MS’20) → Northrop Grumman

• Yancheng (Ethan) Zhou (BA) → Silicon Labs
• Akan Ndem
• Arjun Deopujari (BS) → Stanford (MS)
• Zach Hicks (BS)

Other

Running

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Publications

1. Experiences Teaching a Wireless for the Internet of Things Course Cooperatively at Multiple Universities
   Nabeel Nasir, Viswajith Govinda Rajan, Pat Pannuto, Branden Ghena, and Bradford Campbell
   In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2024)
   paper
2. FTM-Sense: Robust Sensor-free Occupancy Sensing Leveraging WiFi Fine Time Measurement
   Fateme Nikseresht and Bradford Campbell
   In Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys ’23)
   paper
3. A Cloud-Based Data Storage and Visualization Tool for Smart City IoT: Flood Warning as an Example Application
   Victor Ariel Leal Sobral, Jacob Nelson, Loza Asmare, Abdullah Mahmood, Glen Mitchell, Kwadwo Tenkorang, Conor Todd, Bradford Campbell, and Jonathan L. Goodall
   Smart Cities 6, 3 (2023), 1416–1434.
   paper   Impact factor: 6.4
4. PFDRL: Personalized Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning for Residential Energy Management
   Jiechao Gao, Wenpeng Wang, Fateme Nikseresht, Viswajith Govinda Rajan, and Bradford Campbell
   In Proceedings of the 52nd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP ’23)
   paper
5. Sensing Indoor Lighting Environments and Analyzing Dimension Reduction for Identification
   Tushar Routh, Nurani Saoda, Md Fazlay Rabbi Masum Billah, Nabeel Nasir, and Bradford Campbell
   In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Advances in Environmental Sensing Systems for Smart Cities (EnvSys ’23)
   paper
6. Enabling Ubiquitous Occupancy Detection in Smart Buildings: A WiFi FTM-based Approach
   Fateme Nikseresht, Wenpeng Wang, Viswajith Govinda Rajan, Jiechao Gao, and Bradford Campbell
   In 2023 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS)
   paper
7. SRDA: Mobile Sensing based Fluid Overload Detection for End Stage Kidney Disease Patients using Sensor Relation Dual Autoencoder
   Mingyu Tang, Jiechao Gao, Guimin Dong, Carl Yang, Bradford Campbell, Brendan Bowman, Jamie Marie Zoellner, Emaad Abdel-Rahman, and Mehdi Boukhechba
   In Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research)
   paper
8. NexusEdge: Leveraging IoT Gateways for a Decentralized Edge Computing Platform
   Nabeel Nasir, Victor Ariel Leal Sobral, Li-Pang Huang, and Bradford Campbell
   In 2022 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) (SEC ’22)
   paper
9. SolarWalk: Smart Home Occupant Identification using Unobtrusive Indoor Photovoltaic Harvesters
   Nurani Saoda, Md Fazlay Rabbi Masum Billah, Victor Ariel Leal Sobral, Tushar Routh, Wenpeng Wang, and Bradford Campbell
   In Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys ’22)
   paper
10. Graph Neural Networks in IoT: A Survey
    Guimin Dong, Mingyue Tang, Zhiyuan Wang, Jiechao Gao, Sikun Guo, Lihua Cai, Robert Gutierrez, Bradford Campbell, Laura E. Barnes, and Mehdi Boukhechba
    ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (October 2022).
    paper
11. RetroIoT: Retrofitting Internet of Things Deployments by Hiding Data in Battery Readings
    Victor Ariel Leal Sobral, Nurani Saoda, Ruchir Shah, Wenpeng Wang, and Bradford Campbell
    In Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom ’22)
    paper
12. Low Cost Light Source Identification in Real World Settings
    Tushar Routh, Nurani Saoda, Md Fazlay Rabbi Masum Billah, and Brad Campbell
    In 2022 19th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON)
    paper
13. Low Power but High Energy: The Looming Costs of Billions of Smart Devices
    Wenpeng Wang, Victor Ariel Leal Sobral, Md Fazlay Rabbi Masum Billah, Nurani Saoda, Nabeel Nasir, and Bradford Campbell
    In 1st Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems Design and Implementation (HotCarbon) (HotCarbon ’22)
    paper
14. An Energy Supervisor Architecture for Energy-Harvesting Applications
    Nurani Saoda, Wenpeng Wang, Md Fazlay Rabbi Masum Billah, and Bradford Campbell
    In 2022 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) (IPSN ’22)
    paper
15. UbiTrack: Enabling Scalable & Low-Cost Device Localization with Onboard Wifi
    Wenpeng Wang, Zetian Liu, Jiechao Gao, Nurani Saoda, and Bradford Campbell
    In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys ’21)
    paper
16. The Smart Building Privacy Challenge
    Tong Wu, Murtadha Aldeer, Tahiya Chowdhury, Amber Haynes, Fateme Nikseresht, Mahsa Pahlavikhah Varnosfaderani, Jiechao Gao, Arsalan Heydarian, Brad Campbell, and Jorge Ortiz
    In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys ’21)
    paper
17. Enabling Elasticity on the Edge Using Heterogeneous Gateways
    Nabeel Nasir and Bradford Campbell
    In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys ’21)
    paper
18. Designing a General Purpose Development Platform for Energy-Harvesting Applications
    Nurani Saoda, Md Fazlay Rabbi Masum Billah, and Bradford Campbell
    In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting & Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems (ENSsys ’21)
    paper
19. Thermal Energy Harvesting Profiles in Residential Settings
    Victor Ariel Leal Sobral, John Lach, Jonathan L. Goodall, and Bradford Campbell
    In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Data: Acquisition To Analysis (DATA) Workshop (DATA ’21)
    paper
20. Decentralized Federated Learning Framework for the Neighborhood: A Case Study on Residential Building Load Forecasting
    Jiechao Gao, Wenpeng Wang, Zetian Liu, Md Fazlay Rabbi Masum Billah, and Bradford Campbell
    In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Challenges in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Internet of Things (AIChallengeIoT ’21)
    paper
21. BLE Can See: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for RF-Based Indoor Occupancy Detection
    Md Fazlay Rabbi Masum Billah, Nurani Saoda, Jiechao Gao, and Bradford Campbell
    In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (Co-Located with CPS-IoT Week 2021) (IPSN ’21)
    paper
22. Is My Sensor Sleeping, Hibernating, or Broken? A Data-Driven Monitoring System for Indoor Energy Harvesting Sensors
    Alan Wang, Jianyu Su, Arsalan Heydarian, Bradford Campbell, and Peter Beling
    In Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 210–219.
    paper
23. Energy Harvesting Systems Need an Operating System Too
    Samyukta Venkat, Marshall Clyburn, and Bradford Campbell
    In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 15–21.
    paper
24. Deep Learning Based Prediction Towards Designing A Smart Building Assistant System
    In Proceedings of the IEEE 17th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS)
    paper
25. A Graduate Curriculum in Cyber Physical Systems
    J. A. Stankovic, H. Alemzadeh, B. Campbell, J. Lach, F. Lu, C. Fleming, J. Goodall, T. Odumosu, D. Quinn, Y. Tian, and K. Tobler
    IEEE Design Test (2020), 1–1.
    paper
26. The Standby Energy of Smart Devices: Problems, Progress, & Potential
    W. Wang, J. Su, Z. Hicks, and B. Campbell
    In 2020 IEEE/ACM Fifth International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI)
    paper
27. Is Rust Used Safely by Software Developers?
    Ana Nora Evans, Bradford Campbell, and Mary Lou Soffa
    In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE ’20)
    paper
28. No Batteries Needed: Providing Physical Context with Energy-Harvesting Beacons
    Nurani Saoda and Bradford Campbell
    In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting & Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems (ENSsys’19)
    paper
29. Unobtrusive Occupancy Detection with FastGRNN on Resource-Constrained BLE Devices
    Md Fazlay Rabbi Masum Billah and Bradford Campbell
    In Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Device-Free Human Sensing (DFHS’19)
    paper
30. A Modular and Adaptive Architecture for Building Applications with Connected Devices
    Patrick Pannuto, Wenpeng Wang, Prabal Dutta, and Bradford Campbell
    In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet (ICII)
    paper
31. From Energy Audits to Monitoring Megawatt Loads: A Flexible and Deployable Power Metering System
    Bradford Campbell, Ye-sheng Kuo, and Prabal Dutta
    In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI ’18)
    paper | slides
32. The Signpost Platform for City-Scale Sensing
    Joshua Adkins, Bradford Campbell, Branden Ghena, Neal Jackson, Pat Pannuto, Samuel Rohrer, and Prabal Dutta
    In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN ’18)
    paper
33. Isolation Required for Multi-tenant Energy Harvesting Platforms
    Joshua Adkins, Bradford Campbell, Branden Ghena, Neal Jackson, Pat Pannuto, and Prabal Dutta
    In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Energy Neutral Sensing Systems (ENSsys ’17)
    paper
34. Multiprogramming a 64kB Computer Safely and Efficiently
    Amit Levy, Bradford Campbell, Branden Ghena, Daniel B. Giffin, Pat Pannuto, Prabal Dutta, and Philip Levis
    In Proceedings of the 26th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP ’17)
    paper
35. The Case for Writing a Kernel in Rust
    Amit Levy, Bradford Campbell, Branden Ghena, Pat Pannuto, Prabal Dutta, and Philip Levis
    In Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys ’17)
    paper
36. SurePoint: Exploiting Ultra Wideband Flooding and Diversity to Provide Robust, Scalable, High-Fidelity Indoor Localization
    Benjamin Kempke, Pat Pannuto, Bradford Campbell, and Prabal Dutta
    In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys ’16)
    paper
37. Perpetual Sensing for the Built Environment
    Bradford Campbell, Meghan Clark, Samuel DeBruin, Branden Ghena, Neal Jackson, Ye-Sheng Kuo, and Prabal Dutta
    IEEE Pervasive Computing.
    paper
38. Cinamin: A Perpetual and Nearly Invisible BLE Beacon
    Bradford Campbell, Joshua Adkins, and Prabal Dutta
    In Next Generation Platforms for the Cyber-Physical Internet (NextMote ’16)
    paper | slides
39. Ownership is Theft: Experiences Building an Embedded OS in Rust
    Amit Levy, Michael P Andersen, Bradford Campbell, David Culler, Prabal Dutta, Branden Ghena, Philip Levis, and Pat Pannuto
    In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS ’15)
    paper
40. DEV 14 and HotMobile 15
    Nicola Dell, Trevor Perrier, Brad Campbell, Noah Klugman, and Thomas Zachariah
    IEEE Pervasive Computing 14, 2 (2015), 90–c3.
    paper
41. The Internet of Things Has a Gateway Problem
    Thomas Zachariah, Noah Klugman, Bradford Campbell, Joshua Adkins, Neal Jackson, and Prabal Dutta
    In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile ’15)
    paper
42. Interfacing the Internet of a Trillion Things
    Bradford Campbell, Pat Pannuto, and Prabal Dutta
    In Workshop on the Swarm at the Edge of the Cloud (SWEC ’15)
    paper | slides
43. Energy-harvesting Thermoelectric Sensing for Unobtrusive Water and Appliance Metering
    Bradford Campbell, Branden Ghena, and Prabal Dutta
    In Proceedings of the 2Nd International Workshop on Energy Neutral Sensing Systems (ENSsys ’14)
    paper
44. Gemini: A Non-invasive, Energy-Harvesting True Power Meter
    B. Campbell and P. Dutta
    In Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS ’14)
    paper | slides
45. An Energy-Harvesting Sensor Architecture and Toolkit for Building Monitoring and Event Detection
    Bradford Campbell and Prabal Dutta
    In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings (BuildSys ’14)
    paper | slides
46. Deltaflow: Submetering by Synthesizing Uncalibrated Pulse Sensor Streams
    Meghan Clark, Bradford Campbell, and Prabal Dutta
    In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy ’14)
    paper
47. Monjolo: An Energy-harvesting Energy Meter Architecture
    Samuel DeBruin, Bradford Campbell, and Prabal Dutta
    In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys ’13)
    paper | slides
48. Towards a Perpetual Wireless Sensor Node
    Ariton. E. Xhafa, Bradford Campbell, and Srinath Hosur
    In IEEE SENSORS 2013
    paper
49. Grafting Energy-Harvesting Leaves onto the Sensornet Tree
    Lohit Yerva, Bradford Campbell, Apoorva Bansal, Thomas Schmid, and Prabal Dutta
    In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN ’12)
    paper