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Conferences, Workshops, and Books
2017 | ACM BuildSys ’17 / Delft, Netherlands
ePrints: A Real-Time and Scalable System for Fair Apportionment and Tracking of Personal Energy Footprints in Commercial Buildings
Peter Wei, Xiaoqi Chen, Jordan Vega, Stephen Xia, Rishikanth Chandrasekaran, and Xiaofan Jiang
[Best Paper – Runner Up]
2017 | ACM UbiComp ’17 / Maui, HI, USA
SPINDLES: A Smartphone Platform for Intelligent Detection and Notification of Leg Shaking
Stephen Xia, Yan Lu, Peter Wei, and Xiaofan Jiang
2017 | Smart Cities: Foundations, Principles, and Applications / Wiley
Book Chapter: Large Scale Air-Quality Monitoring in Smart and Sustainable Cities
Xiaofan Jiang
2016 | ACM BuildSys ’16 / Stanford University
Adaptive and Personalized Energy Saving Suggestions for Occupants in Smart Buildings: Poster Abstract
Peter Wei, Xiaoqi Chen, Rishikanth Chandrasekaran, Fengyi Song, and Xiaofan Jiang
[Best Poster Award]
2016 | ACM SenSys ’16 / Stanford University
SEUS: A Wearable Multi-Channel Acoustic Headset Platform to Improve Pedestrian Safety: Demo Abstract
Rishikanth Chandrasekaran, Daniel de Godoy, Stephen Xia, Md Tamzeed Islam, Bashima Islam, Shahriar Nirjon, Peter Kinget, and Xiaofan Jiang
[Best Demo – Runner Up]
2016 | IEEE SECON ’16 / London
Image Analysis for Identifying Mosquito Breeding Grounds
Maanit Mehra, Aditya Bagri, Xiaofan Jiang, Jorge Ortiz
A Qi Wireless Charging Based System for Robust User-Initiated Indoor Location Services
Yilong Li, Yu Wang, Yun Cheng, Xiucheng Li, Guoliang Xing, and Xiaofan Jiang
IEEE SECON ’15 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking, 2015
QiLoc—a Qi-wireless based platform for robust user-initiated indoor location services: demo abstract
BuildSys ’14 Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, 2014
AirCloud: a cloud-based air-quality monitoring system for everyone
SenSys ’14 Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems, 2014
Low-cost personal air-quality monitor
MobiSys ’13 Proceeding of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services, 2013
Auditeur: a mobile-cloud service platform for acoustic event detection on smartphones
MobiSys ’13 Proceeding of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services, 2013
HotMobile ’13 Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 2013
Demo Abstract: ThirdEye: Your Guardian Against Myopia
Yun Cheng, Pan Hu, Guobin Shen, and Xiaofan Jiang
EWSN ’13 Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Networks, 2013
Septimu2 – earphones for continuous and non-intrusive physiological and environmental monitoring
SenSys ’12 Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems, 2012
iBookshelf: accurately search and locate books with an adaptive and intelligent bookshelf
SenSys ’12 Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems, 2012
MusicalHeart: a hearty way of listening to music
SenSys ’12 Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems, 2012
Accurate real-time occupant energy-footprinting in commercial buildings
BuildSys ’12 Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings, 2012
Genius-on-the-go: FM radio based proximity sensing and audio information sharing
SenSys ’12 Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems, 2012
IPSN ’12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2012
Location-log: Bringing Online Shopping Benefits to the Physical World with Magnetic-based Proximity Detection
Ben Zhang, Kaifei Chen, Yun Cheng, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Xiaofan Jiang, and Feng Zhao
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Sensing Workshop co-located with IPSN ’12, 2012
IPSN ’12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2012
Demo: Creating interactive virtual zones in physical space with magnetic-induction
SenSys ’11 Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2011
[Best Demo Award]
Electricity Metering of Miscellaneous and Electronic Devices in Buildings
Steven M Lanzisera, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Xiaofan Jiang, Hoi Ying Cheung, Jay Taneja, Judy Lai, Jorge J Ortiz, David Culler, and Richard Brown
FIIW ’11 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Annual Future of Instrumentation International Workshop, 2011
sMAP: a simple measurement and actuation profile for physical information
SenSys ’10 Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2010
An Information-Centric Energy Infrastructure: The Berkeley View
Randy H. Katz, David E. Culler, Seth Sanders, Sara Alspaugh, Yanpei Chen, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Prabal Dutta, Mike He, Xiaofan Jiang, Laura Keys, Andrew Krioukov, Ken Lutz, Jorge Ortiz, Prashanth Mohan, Evan Reutzel, Jay Taneja, Jeff Hsu, and Sushant Shankar
SUSCOM 2011 In Journal of Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 2011
HBCI: human-building-computer interaction
BuildSys ’10 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Building, 2010
Enabling green building applications
HotEmNets ’10 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Hot Topics in Embedded Networked Sensors, 2010
sMAP: simple monitoring and actuation profile
IPSN ’10 Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2010
Experiences with a high-fidelity wireless building energy auditing network
SenSys ’09 Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2009
Design and Implementation of a High-Fidelity AC Metering Network [pptx]
Xiaofan Jiang, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Prabal Dutta, and David Culler
IPSN ’09 Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks Track on Sensor Platforms, Tools, and Design Methods (SPOTS ’09), 2009
An Architecture for Local Energy Generation, Distribution, and Sharing
Mike M. He, Evan M. Reutzel, Xiaofan Jiang, Randy H. Katz, Seth R. Sanders, David E. Culler, Ken Lutz
Energy2030 ’08 Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Global Sustainable Energy Infrastructure, 2008
A building block approach to sensornet systems
SenSys ’08 Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Embedded network sensor systems, 2008
Creating greener homes with IP-based wireless AC energy monitors
SenSys ’08 Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Embedded network sensor systems, 2008
Design and Analysis of Micro-Solar Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks
Jaein Jeong, Xiaofan Jiang and David Culler
INSS 2008 In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems, 2008
The Effect of Link Churn on Wireless Routing
Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Jorge Ortiz, Xiaofan Jiang and David E. Culler
Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2008-109, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
An architecture for energy management in wireless sensor networks
ACM SIGBED Review – Special issue on the workshop on wireless sensor network architecture (April-2007), 2007
Micro power meter for energy monitoring of wireless sensor networks at scale
IPSN ’07 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks, 2007
Perpetual Environmentally Powered Sensor Networks [ppt]
Xiaofan Jiang, Joseph Polastre, David Culler
IPSN ’05 In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks: Special track on Platform Tools and Design Methods for Network Embedded Sensors (SPOTS), 2005
[Best Paper Award]
Exploiting the Capture Effect for Collision Detection and Recovery
Kamin Whitehouse, Alec Woo, Fred (Xiaofan) Jiang, Joseph Polastre, David Culler
EmNetS-II In Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors, 2005
The Effects of Ranging Noise on Multi-Hop Localization: An Empirical Study
Kamin Whitehouse, Chris Karlof, Alec Woo, Fred (Xiaofan) Jiang, David Culler
IPSN ’04 In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2005
Sensor Field Localization: a deployment and empirical analysis
Kamin Whitehouse, Fred (Xiaofan) Jiang, Alec Woo, Chris Karlof, David Culler
UC Berkeley Technical Report UCB//CSD-04-1349, April 9, 2004.
Ph.D. Dissertation
A High-Fidelity Energy Monitoring and Feedback Architecture for Reducing Electrical Consumption in Buildings
Completed in September of 2010
Master Thesis
High-Fidelity Power Metering and Run-Time Energy Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
Completed in fall of 2007
Recent Talks
Bridging the Gap between Humans and the Physical World – A Step Toward Reducing Energy Consumption and Increasing Comfort
Computer Science and Information Engineering Graduate Seminar, National Taiwan University, April 2011, Taipei
Clarity of Thought, in Research, Reading, and Writing
MSRA PORT Talk Series – Research Principle, Microsoft Research Asia. April 2011, Beijing, China
Building Energy Monitoring and Feedback Architecture
LoCal Retreat, May 2010, Santra Cruz, California
Rethinking the Energy Infrastructure from a Cyber-Physical Perspective
Xiaofan Jiang, Randy Katz, David Culler, and Seth Sanders
Emerging CPS Applications Workshop, Apr. 2010, Stockholm, Sweden
Wireless Building Energy Monitoring and LoCal: an Intelligent Power Network[pdf]
Microsoft Research Asia. Nov, 2009, Beijing, China.
Ph.D. Qualifying Examination [pdf]
Date: 2008/12
Committee: David Culler, Randy Katz (chair), Seth Sanders, and Arun Majumdar
Posters and Class Projects
sMAP – Simple Monitoring and Actuation Profile [pdf]
Xiaofan Jiang, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, and David Culler
The 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN’10), Apr. 2010, Stockholm, Sweden.
Capture Sensing Simultaneous Access [Poster]
Xiaofan Jiang
Using the Capture effect to increase spatial reuse and network bandwidth by allowing weaker captured nodes to simultaneously transmit in the presence of a stronger capturing node.
Dynamic Spring Force Localization [pdf]
Xiaofan Jiang, Dima Ryazanov, and Jorge Ortiz
RSSI based localization by modeling nodes as particles connected by a network of springs.
Detection of Pigs in Heat [ppt]
Zhangxi Tan and Xiaofan Jiang
On-line detection of when sows enter heat-period using 3-axis accelerometer readings. A combination of machine learning techniques, such as PCA anomaly detection and frequency analysis, are used to filter the signals.