Allen Miu's MIT homepage (original) (raw)

| | Graduated June, 2006Since July 2006, I've joined Ruckus Wireless as a Wireless Systems Architect. Research Interests:Wireless Systems, Networking protocols, algorithms, and measurements, Mobile Computing, Location-aware applications and tracking technologies, Sensor networks and embedded systems_Research Advisor:_ Professor Hari Balakrishnan Current Projects: Divert Cartel Past Projects: Cricket Microsoft Choice Network Blueware Publications: Conferences Bret Hull, Vladimir Bychkovsky, Kevin Chen, Michel Goraczko, Allen Miu, Eugene Shih, Yang Zhang, Hari Balakrishnan, and Samuel Madden, CarTel: A Distributed Mobile Sensor Computing System, Proc. 4th ACM SenSys, Boulder, CO, November, 2006. Vladimir Bychkovsky, Bret Hull, Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden, A Measurement Study of Vehicular Internet Access Using In Situ Wi-Fi Networks,Proc. 12th ACM MobiCom, Los Angeles, CA, September, 2006. Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Can Emre Koksal, Improving Loss Resilience with Multi-Radio Diversity in Wireless Networks,Proc. 11th ACM MobiCom, Cologne, Germany, August, 2005. (Best Paper Candidate) Allen Miu, Godfrey Tan, Hari Balakrishnan, John G. Apostolopoulos, Divert: Fine-grained Path Selection for Wireless LANs,Proc. 2nd ACM MobiSys, Boston, MA, June, 2004, pp. 203-216. Allen Miu, John G. Apostolopoulos, Wai-tian Tan and Mitchell Trott, Low-Latency Wireless Video Over 802.11 Networks Using Path Diversity, Proc. IEEE ICME, Baltimore, MD, July, 2003, vol. 2, pp.441-444. Godfrey Tan, Allen Miu, John Guttag, and Hari Balakrishnan,An Efficient Scatternet Formation Algorithm for Dynamic Environmnets, Proc. IASTED CCN, Cambridge, MA, November, 2002. [ps,pdf] Nissanka B. Priyantha, Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Seth Teller, The Cricket Compass for Context-Aware Mobile Applications, Proc. 7th ACM MOBICOM, Rome, Italy, July 2001. Allen Miu and Paramvir (Victor) Bahl, Dynamic Host Configuration for Managing Mobility Between Public and Private Networks, Proc. 3rd USENIX USITS, San Francisco, CA, March 2001. (Also MSR-TR-2000-85 September 2000.) Workshop Kyle Jamieson, Bret Hull, Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Understanding the Real-World Performance of Carrier Sense,Proc. ACM E-WIND, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005. Journal/Articles Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Can Emre Koksal, Multi-Radio Diversity in Wireless Networks, Springer Journal on Wireless Networks (WINET). To appear. P. Bahl, A. Balachandran, A. Miu, W. Russell, G. Voelker and Y.M. Wang, PAWNs: Satisfying the Need for Ubiquitous Connectivity and Location Services, IEEE Personal Communications Magazine (PCS), Vol. 6, October 2001. Thesis Allen Miu, Improving Packet Delivery Efficiency Using Multi-Radio Diversity in Wireless LANs, PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2006. Allen Miu, Design and Implementation of an Indoor Mobile Navigation System, SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jan 2002. Winner of a Masterworks Award, May 2002. Demonstrations: Data Management in the CarTel Mobile Sensor Computing System. ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2006, Chicago, IL, 2006 A Demonstration of Tracking the Position of a Moving LEGO Traing using the Cricket Indoor Location System. 10th ACM Mobicom, Philadephia, PA, 2004. [ps] [pdf] Videos: Oxygen Demo 2005. [mpg (29 MB), wmv (23 MB)] Tracking a moving train. [mpg (405 MB)] Location-aware stream migration. [mpg (18 MB)] Indoor navigation. [mpg (27 MB)] Centipede: multi-robot chain-forming interaction. [mpg (21 MB)] Project CollaboratorsI'm fortunate to have had the chance to work closely with the following set of amazing people during my course at MIT: John Ankcorn Nokia Research John Apostolopoulos HP Labs, Palo Alto Paramvir (Victor) Bahl Microsoft Research, Redmond Anand Balachandran Microsoft, Redmond Prof. Hari Balakrishnan MIT CSAIL Vladimir Bychkavsky MIT CSAIL Jon Finegold uLocate Communications, Inc Michel Goraczko MIT CSAIL Prof. John Guttag MIT CSAIL Bret Hull MIT CSAIL Kyle Jamieson MIT CSAIL Can Emre Koksal EPFL, Switzerland Prof. Samuel Madden MIT CSAIL Nissanka (Bodhi) Priyantha Microsoft Research, Redmond Adam Smith MIT CSAIL Dan Tan HP Labs, Palo Alto Godfrey Tan MIT CSAIL (now at Intel, Santa Clara) Prof. Seth Teller MIT CSAIL Mitch Trott HP Labs, Palo Alto Courses 6.170 Laboratory in Software Engineering (served as Teaching Assistant for this course) 6.821 Programming Languages 6.823 Computer Architecture 6.836 Embodied Intelligence (Class Project) 6.892 Computer Networks (Class Project) 6.856 Randomized Algorithms (Class Project) 6.838J Computational Geometry (Convex Hull Applet)(BSP Applet)(Duality Applet) (I taught Lecture 7 [ppt][ps][pdf]) 15.401 Finance Theory I 15.402 Finance Theory II (Corporate Finance) 15.399 Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab) Personal Biography: I was born in Hong Kong, but was raised in Vancouver, Canada since I was seven. I got married this summer (2006) to my college sweetheart, Jie Zhang and have since return to the west coast. I love badminton. Activities: Committee Member and Participant, Boston Open (2002-2005) MIT Team member, MIT Invitational Team Badminton Tournament 2001 President (2004-), MIT Community Badminton Club Co-President (2001-2002), Officer-at-large (2003-) MIT Badminton Club Miscellaneous: My cousin is a rising pop singer in Hong Kong. Check out her first andsecond albums! Photos Personal Quotations Norman Lee's website. 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