Here are some of the projects I have worked on during my career as a graduate student.
Energy-Efficient Classifiers for Remote Medical Monitoring
Advances in integrated circuit technologies have enabled engineers to embed computation and communication resources in small form factors. Small wireless sensors have enabled a variety of ambulatory medical detection applications where individuals are instrumented in order to detect events outside a clinical setting. To make such devices suitable for long-term use, small batteries must be used. Thus, reducing overall energy consumption is essential. In this project, I explore ways to reduce the energy consumed by the medical detection system. This means, we are not only concerned with the cost of processing, but also with the cost of communication and storage.
SMART Project
SMART: Scalable Medical Alert and Response Technology, is a system for patient tracking and monitoring that begins at the emergency site and continues through transport, triage, stabilization, and transfer between external sites and health care facilities as well as within a health care facility. The system is based on a scalable location-aware monitoring architecture, with remote transmission from medical sensors and display of information on personal digital assistants, detection logic for recognizing events requiring action, and logistic support for optimal response.
My main involvement in this project was building the EKG sensor.
MyMD
The goal of the MyMD Project is to improve healthcare by providing pervasive, personalized medical monitoring to individuals. For individuals who experience an acute medical emergency, continuous monitoring can reduce detection time and allow treatments to be applied earlier. The prototype monitoring system is designed to support a single subject.
(This project was short-lived and we mostly played with the sensors, but I hope that someone may find what we did useful.)
UCoM
The UCoM project at Microsoft Research focuses on using multiple radios to improve the overall experience of mobile, wireless, battery-powered computing devices. When I was an intern, I worked on the Wake on Wireless part of the project which explores the use of multiple radios in order to reduce energy consumption of handhelds and improve wireless quality-of-service scheduling. The UCoM project is led by Victor Bahl.
µAMPS
The µAMPS project focuses on the design of power-aware massively distributed microsensor networks. µAMPS was led by Anantha Chandrakasan.