Shahriar Nirjon

About

I am a sixth year PhD student of Prof. John A. Stankovic at UVA.

My primary area of interest is Sensing and Mobile Computing. I enjoy building application specific systems as well as systems and platforms for developing new applications that involve sensors and mobile devices. Research challenges that I deal with are the uncertainties in physical world sensing, human factors and contexts, mobility, and resource constraints of the embedded platform. Technologies that I have expertise in includes Smartphones, Depth-Camera Sensors, Senosor motes, and GPS.

I received an MCS (2011) from UVA, and an MSc (2008) and a BSc (2006) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). I interned at Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA, 2013), Microsoft (Redmond, WA, 2011), and Deutsche Telekom Lab (Los Altos, CA, 2010). Before grad school, I was a lecturer at the department of CSE, BUET (2007-08). I was the UVA CS department's outstanding graduate student for the year 2011-12.

I will be defending my PhD thesis in: Spring 2014.

Journal Publications

[1] Shahriar Nirjon, Angela Nicoara, Cheng-Hsin Hsu, Jatinder Singh, and John Stankovic, "MultiNets: A System for Real-Time Switching between Multiple Network Interfaces on Mobile Devices", To appear in ACM Transaction on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2013.

[2] Md. Monirul Islam, Xin Yao, Shahriar Nirjon, Muhammad Asiful Islam, and Kazuyuki Murase, "Bagging and Boosting Negatively Correlated Neural Networks", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernatics-Part B: Cybernatics, Vol. 38, No. 3, June 2008.

Conference Publications

[1] Shahriar Nirjon, Robert Dickerson, Philip Asare, Qiang Li, Dezhi Hong, John Stankovic, Pan Hu, Guobin Shen, and Xiaofan Jiang, "Auditeur: A Mobile-Cloud Service Platform for Acoustic Event Detection on Smartphones", In Proc. of International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), Taipei, Taiwan, 2013.

[2] Shahriar Nirjon, Robert Dickerson, John Stankovic, Guobin Shen, and Xiaofan Jiang, "sMFCC: Exploiting Sparseness in Speech for Fast Acoustic Feature Extraction on Mobile Devices – a Feasibility Study", In Proc. of HotMobile, Jekyll Island, GA, 2013.

[3] Shahriar Nirjon, Robert Dickerson, Qiang Li, Philip Asare, John Stankovic, Dezhi Hong, Ben Zhang, Guobin Shen, Xiaofan Jiang, and Feng Zhao, "MusicalHeart: A Hearty Way of Listening to Music", In Proc. of ACM SenSys, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2012.

[4] Shahriar Nirjon, and John Stankovic, "Kinsight: Localizing and Tracking Household Objects using Depth-Camera Sensors", In Proc. of Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Hangzhou, China, 2012.

[5] Shahriar Nirjon, Angela Nicoara, Cheng-Hsin Hsu, Jatinder Singh, and John Stankovic, "MultiNets: Policy Oriented Real-Time Switching of Wireless Interfaces on Mobile Devices", In Proc. of Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Beijing, China, 2012. (Best Paper Award)

[6] Shahriar Nirjon, John Stankovic, and Kamin Whitehouse, "IAA: Interference Aware Anticipatory Algorithm for Scheduling and Routing Periodic Real-time Streams in WSN", In Proc. of International Conference on Networked Sensing System (INSS), Kassel, Germany, 2010. (22.8%)

[7] Sirajum Munir, Shan Lin, Enamul Hoque, Shahriar Nirjon, John Stankovic, and Kamin Whitehouse, "Addressing Burstiness for Reliable Communication and Latency Bound Generation in WSN", In Proc. of Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Sweden, 2010.

[8] Shahriar Nirjon, Muhammad Asiful Islam, and Sarkar Tanzir Ahmed, "Creating Diverse Ensemble by Data Feeding Approach", In Proc. of International Conference of Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), Dhaka, 2006.

Demos and Posters

[1] Shahriar Nirjon, Jie Liu, Bodhi Priyantha, and Gerald DeJean, "Poster Abstract: High-Sensitivity Cloud-Offloaded Instant GPS for Indoor Environments", In Proc. of SenSys, Rome, Italy, 2013.

[2] Shahriar Nirjon, Chris Greenwood, Carlos Torres, Stefanie Zhou, John A. Stankovic, Hee Jung Yoon, Ho-Kyeong Ra, Can Basaran, Taejoon Park, and Sang H. Son, "Demo Abstract: Kintense: A Robust, Accurate, Real-Time and Evolving System for Detecting Aggressive Actions from Streaming 3D Skeleton Data", In Proc. of SenSys, Rome, Italy, 2013.

[3] Dezhi Hong, Shahriar Nirjon, John Stankovic, David Stone, and Guobin Shen, "Poster Abstract: Mobile-Cloud Service for Physiological Anomaly Detection on Smartphones", In Proc. of IPSN, Philadelphia, PA, 2013.

[4] Pan Hu, Guobin Shen, Xiaofan Jiang, Shao-fu Shih, Donghuan Lu, Feng Zhao, Dezhi Hong, Qiang Li, Shahriar Nirjon, Robert Dickerson, and John Stankovic, "Demo Abstract: SEPTIMU^2 – Earphones for Continuous and Non-intrusive Physiological and Environmental Monitoring", In Proc. of 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '12), Toronto, Canada.

[5] Dezhi Hong, Ben Zhang, Qiang Li, Shahriar Nirjon, Robert Dickerson, Guobin Shen, Xiaofan Jiang, and John Stankovic, "Demo Abstract: SEPTIMU – Continuous In-situ Human Wellness Monitoring and Feedback using Sensors Embedded in Earphones", In Proc. of 11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'12), Beijing, China.

[6] Shahriar Nirjon, John Stankovic, and Kamin Whitehouse, "Poster Abstract: Heuristics for Scheduling Periodic Real-Time Streams in WSN", In Proc. of 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'09), Berkeley, CA, November 2009.

Summary of Education

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (2008 - present)
PhD Candidate, Advisor: John A. Stankovic

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (2008 - 2011)
Master of Computer Science, CGPA: 4.00/4.00

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2006 - 2008)
MSc in CSE, Thesis: Computing Nice Projections of 2D and 3D Scenes, Advisor: Masud Hasan, CGPA: 3.83/4.00

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2006)
BSc in CSE, Thesis: Bagging and Boosting Negatively Correlated Neural Networks, Advisor: Md. Monirul Islam, CGPA: 3.96/4.00

Summary of Industry Experience

Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA (Summer 2013)
Research Intern, Sensing and Energy Research Group (SERG).

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA (Summer 2011)
Software Development Engineering Intern, ADO.NET.

Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab, Los Altos, CA, USA (Fall 2010)
Research Intern, Android Platform Development.

Summary of Teaching Experience

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science (Fall 2008)

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Lecturer (full-time faculty), Department of Computer Science (Nov 2006 – July 2008)

Military Institute of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Lecturer (part-time faculty), Department of Computer Science (July 2007 – July 2008)

Awards and Grants

[1] Travel Grant for Attending HotMobile'13, Jekyll Island, GA (Feb 2013)

[2] Travel Grant for Attending ACM SenSys'12, Toronto, ON, Canada (Nov 2012)

[3] Graduate Student Award for Research, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia (May, 2012)

[4] Best Paper Award, Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS ) (April 2012)

[5] Google CS Grad Forum 2010 Scholarship, Mountain View, CA, (Jan 21-23, 2010)

[6] Cyber Physical Systems Summer School Scholarship, Georgia Institute of Tech, (2009, 2010)

[7] Full Tuition Scholarship, University of Virginia, Graduate studies program (2008 - current)

[8] Best Student award (B.Sc. Engg), Nazrul Islam Hall, BUET (2006)

[9] Dean’s List Scholarship, Bangladesh University of Engr and Tech (BUET) (All 8 Semesters)

[10] ACM ICPC Regional Contests: Asia Regional (Dhaka) 2003, 2004, 2005; Mid-Atlantic Regional (Maryland, USA) 2008.

[11] $2.56 ‘Knuth-bug check’ from Prof. Dr. D. E. Knuth of Stanford University (2003)

[12] Gold medal for 1st position in H.Sc. Exam, Dhaka College, Bangladesh (2000)

[13] Champion (Hand Writing), National Educational Week, Bangladesh (2000)

[14] Excellence award for 12th position in S.Sc. Exam, Govt. Laboratory High School (1998)

[15] Runner-up (Speech on Liberation War), Bangladesh Freedom Fighter Central Council (1997)

Patents and Invention Disclosures

[1] Angela Nicoara (55%), Shahriar Nirjon (45%), and Jatinder Singh (10%), "System Support for Accessing and Switching among Multiple Wireless Interfaces on Mobile Devices", Patent Application filed on November 24, 2011, published on May 6, 2012 - Buletin 2012/23, European Patent Application No. EP 2461631 A2, in Europe.

[2] Angela Nicoara (55%), Shahriar Nirjon (45%), and Jatinder Singh (10%), "System Support for Accessing and Switching among Multiple Wireless Interfaces on Mobile Devices", Patent Application filed on December 1, 2010, published on June 7, 2012, Patent Publication No. US 2012/0140651 A1, in the United States of America.

[3] Shahriar Nirjon (45%), John Stankovic (35%), Jacky Shen (10%), Fred Xiang (10%), "Musical Heart - A Hearty Way of Listening to Music", Invention Disclosure submitted to University of Virginia, Feb 2013.

Media Coverage

[1] Musical Heart on the news: New Scientist, The Economist, CNET, Times of India, Cavalier Daily, Gizmodo, Runners World, Trend Hunter, Ubergizmo.

[2] Kinsight on the news: BBC, New Scientist, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Cloud 9, Mashable, PC World, Microsoft Channel 9.