Current Position

Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Yale University

Office: A. K Watson #212
Lab: ENALAB, AKW 000

Contact Information

P.O Box 208285
51 Prospect Street, #212
New Haven, CT 06520-8285

Email: andreas.savvides@yale.edu

Office: (203) 432-1275
Lab:    (203)432-0042
Fax:     (203) 432-0593

ANDREAS SAVVIDES
Personal Home Page 
Welcome to my web page.  I am an assistant professor at Yale University. I have officially moved at Yale in September 2003. At Yale I lead the Embedded Networks and Applications Lab, ENALAB

Research Interests

My research interests are in Networked Embedded Systems, Sensor Networks, Smart Environments. My current research focuses on self-configuring sensor networks, applications, platforms and services.

Current Projects:

Sensory Grammars and the BehaviorScope
Self-Configuration Services and Application Support Constructs for Wireless Sensor Networks
Lightweight Event-Driven Networks of Biomimetic Image Sensors
ASPIRE:  Antipodal Staged Processing in Role-adaptive Embedded Systems
Battery Operated Wireless Sensor Network Testbeds
 

Collaborators:

Eugenio Culurciello, Yale EE Department
Petros Drineas, RPI CS
Mani Srivastava and Networked and Embedded Systems Lab, UCLA
Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland, CS Department
Andreas Terzis, Johns Hopkins University

Teaching

EENG 449 Computer Systems, Spring 2004
EENG 460a, CPSC 436, ENAS 960 Networked Embedded Systems and Sensor Networks, Fall 2004

Community Service


Organizing Committee: IPSN 2005 and IPSN  SPOTS 2005
Organizing Committee: Mobiquitous 2005
Technical Program Committee Member: IEEE SECON 2004, ACM SenSys 2005, IEEE MASS 2005, IEEE SECON 2005
Sponsorship Chair ACM SenSys 2005
Demo Chair IPSN 2006

Vitae

Previous Project Web Sites 

These are some pointers related to my research while I was a graduate student at the Networked and Embedded Systems Lab (NESL) UCLA under Professor Mani Srivastava. For my most current research activities please refer to the ENALAB website.

AHLoS - Details of the Ad-Hoc Localization System, including release information on the developed hardware platforms and software

SmartKG -  Information on the Smart Kindergarten Projects

CENS - Information on the recently instituted NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing

Awards & Honors

  • NSF CAREER Award, 02/01/2005 - 01/31/2010
  • Design Automation Conference Design Award (2nd Place with I. Locher, S. Park and M. B. Srivastava, July 2002.
  • Eugene M. Isenberg Award, UMASS School of Management 1999
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UMASS ECE Department for Academic Year 1997-98
  • Warren College Provost Honors, UC San Diego
  • ACM Research Poster Award, Computer Science Department, UC San Diego, October 1996
  • Fulbright Scholarship for Undergraduate Studies (tuition, fees & stipend), 1993-97

Book Chapters

A. Savvides and M. B. Srivastava, "Location Discovery", IEEE Press Book on Ad-Hoc Networks in 2003

A. Savvides, L. Girod, D. Estrin and M.B. Srivastava,  Localization in Sensor Networks, Book Chapter in 2004 edition of Wiley/IEEE Press, Wireless Sensor Networks - to be published in 2004

       D. Lymberopoulos and A. Savvides, Experiences from the Empirical   Evaluation of Two Physical Layers for Node Localization , to appear in book on Information Assurance edited by Cliff Wang and Radha Poovendran

      A. Savvides and M. B. Srivastava, A Self-Configuring Location Discovery System for Smart Environments, book chapter in Kluwer book on Ubiquitous Computing

    

Publications

For more recent publications please look  here

  • A. Savvides, W. Garber, S. Adlakha, R. Moses and M. B. Srivastava, " On the Error Characteristics of Multihop Node Localization in Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks", to appear in the proceedings of  the 2nd International Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'03)
  • S. Park, I. Locher, A. Savvides, M. B. Srivastava, A. Chen, R. Muntz, S. Yuen, “Design of a Wearable Sensor Badge for Smart Kindergarten”, to appear in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computing, October 2002 
  • A. Savvides, H. Park and M. B. Srivastava, “The Bits and Flops of the N-Hop Multilateration Primitive for Node Localization Problems”,  Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Wireless Networks and Applications held in conjunction with Mobicom 2002, September 28, Atlanta, Georgia 
  • A. Savvides and M. B. Srivastava, “A Distributed Computation Platform for Wireless Embedded Sensing”, to appear in the Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Design 2002, Freiburg, Germany (Invited Paper)
  • I. Locher, S. Park, A. Savvides and M. B. Srivastava, "System Design of iBadge for Smart Kindergarten", winner of 2nd place at the 39th DAC Student Design Contest, June 2002
  • S. Park, A. Savvides and M. B. Srivastava, "Simulating Networks of Wireless Sensors", Proceedings of Winter Simulation Conference, WinterSim 2001, December 2001
  •  A. Savvides, C.C. Han and M. B. Srivastava, “Dynamic Fine Grained Localization in Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Mobicom 2001, pp. 166-179, Rome, Italy, July 2001 
  • S. Park, A. Savvides and M. B. Srivastava, "Battery Capacity Measurement and Analysis Using Lithium Coin Cell Battery", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2001), Huntington Beach, CA, August 2001
  •   A. Savvides, S. Park, and M. B. Srivastava, "On Modeling Networks of Wireless Micro Sensors", short paper and poster at SIGMETRICS 2001, Boston, MA, June 2001
  • S. Park, A. Savvides and M. B. Srivastava, "SensorSim: A Simulation Framework for Sensor Networks", In the Proceedings of MSWiM 2000, Boston, MA, August 11, 2000
  • I. Koutsopoulos, D. Connors, A. Savvides and S. Dao, "Intra-Team Multi-Hop Broadcasting (ITMB): A MAC Layer Protocol for Efficient Control Signaling in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks", Proceedings of International Communications Conference, June 2000
  • A. Savvides, “Wireless Point-to-Point Link with Multimedia Support”, IEEE Melecon 2000
  • A. Ganz, Z. Ganz and A. Savvides, "Media Access Control Development Platform for
    Wireless LANs", Proceedings of International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Cyprus 1999
Professional Service
  • IEEE  Member 
  • ACM Member

 


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