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Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam
Email: lenin [at] microsoft [dot] com

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I have joined Microsoft Research Redmond as a Researcher.

I graduated with a PhD from MIT in 2014. I worked with Hari Balakrishnan.
I received Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship in 2011.

My research interests include all aspects of mobile computing and networked systems. I have designed and built several systems in the last few years. Here is a list of my projects.

PC: MobiSys 2016, InfoCom 2016, MobiSys 2015 (light), WWW 2015
Co-Chair: ACM S3 at MobiCom 2013
External Reviewer: UbiComp 2015, SigComm 2015, TMC, SOSP 2013, NSDI 2011, MC2R, TOSN, TON, CCR, INFOCOM 2008

Selected Papers (Full list) (Projects page)

• WebPerf: Evaluating �What-If� Scenarios for Cloud-hosted Web Applications
  Yurong Jiang, Lenin Ravindranath, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan
  SIGCOMM 2016
• Glimpse: Continuous, Real-Time Object Recognition on Mobile Devices
  Tiffany Chen, Lenin Ravindranath, Shuo Deng, Victor Bahl, Hari Balakrishnan
  SenSys 2015
• Domino: Understanding Wide-Area, Asynchronous Event Causalities in Web Applications
  Ding Li, James Mickens, Suman Nath, Lenin Ravindranath
  SoCC 2015
• How to Smash the Next Billion Mobile App Bugs?
  Ranveer Chandra, B�rje F. Karlsson, Nicholas D. Lane, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Suman Nath, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath, and Feng Zhao
  Mobile Computing and Communications 2015
• Automatic and Scalable Fault Detection for Mobile Applications
  Lenin Ravindranath, Suman Nath, Jitu Padhye, Hari Balakrishnan
  MobiSys 2014
• Procrastinator: pacing mobile apps� usage of the network
  Lenin Ravindranath, Sharad Agarwal, Jitu Padhye, Chris Reiderer
  MobiSys 2014
• Timecard: Controlling User-Perceived Delays in Server-Based Mobile Applications
  Lenin Ravindranath, Jitu Padhye, Ratul Mahajan, Hari Balakrishnan
  SOSP 2013
• AppInsight: Mobile App Performance Monitoring in the Wild
  Lenin Ravindranath, Jitu Padhye, Sharad Agarwal, Ratul Mahajan, Ian Obermiller, Shahin Shayandeh
  OSDI 2012
• Give in to procrastination and stop prefetching
  Lenin Ravindranath, Sharad Agarwal, Jitu Padhye, Chris Reiderer
  HotNets 2013
• SmartAds: Bringing Contextual Ads to Mobile Apps
  Suman Nath, Felix Lin, Lenin Ravindranath, Jitu Padhye
  MobiSys 2013
• Code In The Air: Simplifying Sensing and Coordination Tasks on Smartphones
  Lenin Ravindranath, Arvind Thiagarajan, Hari Balakrishnan, Sam Madden
  HotMobile 2012
• Improving Wireless Network Performance Using Sensor Hints
  Lenin Ravindranath, Calvin Newport, Hari Balakrishnan, and Sam Madden
  NSDI 2011 (Nominated for Best Paper)
  Figure 7 in the paper has bugs
• Accurate, Low-Energy Trajectory Mapping For Mobile Devices
  Arvind Thiagarajan, Lenin Ravindranath*, Hari Balakrishnan, Sam Madden and Lewis Girod
  Co-primary
  NSDI 2011
• Nectar: Automatic Management of Data and Computation in Data Centers
  Pradeep Kumar Gunda, Lenin Ravindranath*, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Yuan Yu, and Li Zhuang
  Authors in alphabetical order
  OSDI 2010
• "Extra-Sensory Perception" for Wireless Networks
  Lenin Ravindranath, Calvin Newport, Hari Balakrishnan, Sam Madden
  HotNets 2010
• VTrack: Accurate, Energy-Aware Traffic Delay Estimation Using Mobile Phones
  Arvind Thiagarajan, Lenin Ravindranath*, Katrina LaCurts, Sivan Toledo, Jakob Eriksson, Sam Madden, Hari Balakrishnan
  Co-primary
  SenSys 2009 (Best Paper Award) Other Papers
• Mobile Applications Need Targeted Micro-Updates
  Alvin Cheung, Lenin Ravindranath*, Eugene Wu, Samuel Madden, Hari Balakrishnan
  Student authors in alphabetical order
  APSys 2013
• Code in the Air: Simplifying Tasking on Smartphones
  Lenin Ravindranath, Tiffany Chen, Anirudh Sivaraman, Hari Balakrishnan, and Sam Madden
  MobiSys 2012 (demo)
• Code in the Air: Simplifying Sensing on Smartphones
  Tim Kaler, John Patrick Lynch, Timothy Peng, Lenin Ravindranath*, Arvind Thiagarajan, Hari Balakrishnan, and Sam Madden
  Primary
  SenSys 2010 (demo) Selected Papers (pre-grad school work)
• Dircast: A Practical and Efficient Wi-Fi Multicast System
  Ranveer Chandra, Thomas Moscibroda, Vishnu Navda, Jitu Padhye, Ramachandran Ramjee, Lenin Ravindranath*
  Authors in alphabetical order
  ICNP 2009
• Change is hard: Adapting Dependency Graph Models For Unified Diagnosis in Wired/Wireless Networks
  Lenin Ravindranath, Victor Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, David A. Maltz, Jitu Padhye, Parveen Patel
  WREN 2009
• SixthSense: RFID-based Enterprise Intelligence
  Lenin Ravindranath, Piyush Agrawal, Venkat Padmanabhan
  MobiSys 2008
• Wi-Fi Neighborcast: Enabling Communication Among Nearby Clients
  Ranveer Chandra, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath*
  Authors in alphabetical order
  HotMobile 2008
• COMBINE: Leveraging the Power of Wireless Peers through Collaborative Downloading
  Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Venkat Padmanabhan, Lenin Ravindranath, Chandu Thekkath
  MobiSys 2007
• Beacon-Stuffing: Wi-Fi without Associations
  Ranveer Chandra, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath*, Alec Wolman
  Authors in alphabetical order
  HotMobile 2007
• Collaborative Downloading for Multi-homed Wireless Devices
  Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Venkat Padmanabhan, Chandu Thekkath, Lenin Ravindranath
  HotMobile 2007
• Enhancing Security of Corporate Wi-Fi Networks Using DAIR
  Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath*, Manpreet Singh, Alec Wolman, Brian Zill
  Authors in alphabetical order
  MobiSys 2006
• DAIR: A Framework for Managing Enterprise Wireless Networks Using Desktop Infrastructure
  Paramvir Bahl, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath*, Manpreet Singh, Alec Wolman, Brian Zill
  Authors in alphabetical order
  HotNets 2005