About

I am a PhD Student in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. I am studying under the advising of Professor Gil Zussman. My current research interests are in computer communication networks, wireless and ad hoc networking, sensor networks, and mobile networks.

 

For more information regarding my experiences, please be directed to my resume.

 

Recent News Items

[1/17/2012]: For the Spring 2012 semester, I will serve as an instructor for CSEE 4140 - Networking Laboratory.

[11/08/2011]: Along with fellow presenters Maria Gorlatova and Gerald Stanje, we won the Best Student Demo Award for a demo on behalf of the EnHANTs project at the ACM SenSys 2011 conference. [news item]

[04/5/2011]: I recieved the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Award. This will help fund my graduate studies over the next couple of years! Along with this, I also received a Columbia Egleston Fellowship. [news item]

Teaching

• Instructor for:
  • CSEE 4140 - Networking Laboratory (Columbia University, Spring 2012)
• Teaching Asstant for:
  • CSEE W4119 - Computer Networking (Columbia University, Fall 2011)
  • ENGR 2350 - Laboratory Introduction to Embedded Control (RPI, Fall 2009)

Honors and Awards

• Best Student Demo Award, ACM SenSys 2011
• NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2011)
• Columbia University Egleston Doctoral Fellow (2011)
• Smart Scholarship Recipient (declined, 2011)
• RPI Palmer C. Rickets Prize for Outstanding Acdemic Success in Electrical Engineering (2010)
• RPI Class of 2010 Academic Achievement Award (2010)
• RPI Honors Convocation 4.0 Award (2010)

Education

Columbia University, New York, NY, 2010 - Present

• Department of Electrical Engineering
• Degree: Ph.D. Electrical Engineering
• Degree: M.S. Electrical Engineering (Received Oct. 2011), Final GPA: 3.92

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , Troy, NY, 2007 - 2010

• Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE)
• Degree: B.S. Electrical Engineering, Minor in Management Technology Awarded
• Concentration: Communications and Information Processing, Computer Networks
• Final GPA: 4.0 | Summa Cum Laude | 3 years

Publications

• G. Stanje, P. Miller, J. Zhu, A. Smith, O. Winn, R. Margolies, M. Gorlatova, J. Sarik, M. Szczodrak, B. Vigraham, L. Carloni, P. Kinget, I. Kymissis, and G. Zussman, "Demo: Organic Solar Cell-equipped Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tag (EnHANT) Prototypes" , Proc. ACM SenSys'11, Seattle, WA, November 2011. 2011 ACM SenSys Best Student Demo Award.
• J. Zhu, G. Stanje, R. Margolies, M. Gorlatova, J. Sarik, Z. Noorbhaiwala, P. Miller, M. Szczodrak, B. Vigraham, L. Carloni, P. Kinget, I. Kymissis, and G. Zussman, "Demo: Prototyping UWB-Enabled EnHANTs", Proc. ACM MobiSys'11, Washington, DC, June 2011.

Courses

• Introduction to Stochastics, Fall 2010
• Deterministic Models, Fall 2010
• Analysis of Algorithms, Fall 2010
• Computer Communication Networks, Spring 2011
• Network Optimization, Spring 2011
• Modern Analysis, Spring 2011
• Stochastic Modeling I, Fall 2011
• Deterministic Scheduling Models, Fall 2011
• Wireless and Mobile Networking, Fall 2011

 

 

Updated 2/05/2012

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