Monthly Archives: April 2013

Ph.D. Dissertation Defended

Posted on April 25, 2013 by admin

Yes, I did it! Wednesday April 24th, 4pm EST, following a presentation attended by many of my fellow WimNet group members and coauthors from other groups, and following an intense and engaged period of questioning by the committee, I was … Continue reading →

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Why are we Doing This? (1) Learning, (2) Growth.

Posted on April 10, 2013 by admin

Rob Margolies, a Ph.D. student in my research group, has recently written a great blog post about why Ph.D. students push themselves so hard. In short, it is because we really feel that we are learning and growing, in many … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Research Presentation Video

Posted on April 5, 2013 by admin

A video of a talk I recently gave at Microsoft Research Seattle is now available online. In this talk I introduced the Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags Project and talked about my contributions to the project and to the overall … Continue reading →

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