Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam
Email: lenin [at] csail [dot] mit [dot] edu

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I am a PhD student at CSAIL. I work with Hari Balakrishnan.
I received Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship in 2011.

I am currently spending some time at MSR continuing my internship work.

Research
My interests are in mobile and distributed systems and wireless networks.

Papers

• 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
• Accurate, Low-Energy Trajectory Mapping For Mobile Devices
  Arvind Thiagarajan, Lenin Ravindranath, Hari Balakrishnan, Sam Madden and Lewis Girod
  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
  OSDI 2010
• "Extra-Sensory Perception" for Wireless Networks
  Lenin Ravindranath, Calvin Newport, Hari Balakrishnan, Sam Madden
  Hotnets 2010
• Code In The Air — Simplifying Sensing on Smartphones
  Tim Kaler, John Patrick Lynch, Timothy Peng, Lenin Ravindranath, Arvind Thiagarajan, Hari Balakrishnan, and Sam Madden
  Demo Abstract, Sensys 2010
• VTrack: Accurate, Energy-Aware Traffic Delay Estimation Using Mobile Phones - Best Paper Award
  Arvind Thiagarajan, Lenin Ravindranath, Katrina LaCurts, Sivan Toledo, Jakob Eriksson, Sam Madden, Hari Balakrishnan
  Sensys 2009

Full list

Courses
6.854: Advanced Algorithms (Fall 2008)
6.867: Machine Learning (Fall 2008)
6.829: Computer Networks (Spring 2009)
6.864: Advanced Natural Language Processing (Fall 2009) - Best Project-Poster Award

Activities
Mobile Application Competition (IAP 2009) - Bank of America Award
Students Panel, S^3 Workshop (Mobihoc 2009) - Best Panelist Award
Microsoft Windows 7 Competition - Grand Prize Winner

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