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Seapahn Megerian - Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests	Infrastructure for Internet-scale search engines Networked embedded systems Wireless sensor networks Smart Spaces and environment control Design automation of embedded systems
Professional Experience	Sep 2007 - present: Google Senior Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure. Aug 2008 - Jan 2014: San Francisco State University Lecturer - Electrical and Computer Engineering Aug 2003 - Aug 2007: University of Wisconsin Madison Assistant Professor - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Education	2000 – 2005 University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D. in Computer Science (Advisor: Professor Miodrag Potkonjak) Thesis: “Sensor Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks” 1998 – 1999 University of California, Los Angeles M.S. Degree in Computer Science - System Architecture 1994 – 1998 University of California, Los Angeles B.S. Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
Honors and Awards	June 2005: Honorable Mention – “2005 FreeScale Wireless Design Challenge,” Jacob Adriaens, Seapahn Megerian, “HAXOR: Home Automation and Observation Remote”, http://www.jandspromotions.com/wirelesschallenge 2002-2003: Intel Ph.D. Fellowship Recipient July 2001: Best Student Paper award as the primary author for the paper titled “Exposure in Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks” presented at the 7th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom '01) in Rome, Italy.
Teaching	ENGR 844 (SFSU) - Advanced Processor Architectures - Spring 2013 (23 students) ENGR 851 (SFSU) - Advanced Processor Architectures - Spring 2012 (21 students) ENGR 851 (SFSU) - Advanced Processor Architectures - Fall 2010 (19 students) ENGR 844 (SFSU) - Embedded Systems - Spring 2010 (24 students) ENGR 851 (SFSU) - Advanced Processor Architectures - Spring 2009 (24 students) ENGR 844 (SFSU) - Embedded Systems - Fall 2008 - (38 students) ECE 554 – Digital Engineering Laboratory – Spring 2007 (21 students) ECE 537 – Communication Networks – Spring 2007 (22 students) ECE 352 – Digital System Fundamentals – Fall 2006 (76 students) ECE 537 – Communication Networks – Spring 2006 (25 students) ECE 554 – Digital Engineering Laboratory – Fall 2005 (21 students) ECE 537 – Communication Networks – Spring 2005 (42 students) ECE 902 – Networked Embedded Systems – Fall 2004 (18 students) ECE 537 – Communication Networks – Spring 2004 (28 students) ECE 554 – Digital Engineering Laboratory – Fall 2003 (17 students) ECE 399, 699, 790, 890, 990, and 999 – Independent study and research students: 2006 Fall – 7 2007 Spring – 3 2005 Fall – 4 2006 Spring – 6 2004 Fall – 6 2005 Spring – 4 For more detailed course info, please visit the Courses page.
Past Students (Advisees)	Yen-Ting Lin (Ph.D.) – Spring 2004 to Spring 2009 Hao Chen (Ph.D.) – Fall 2005 to Summer 2007 Jacob Adriaens (Ph.D.) – Spring 2005 to Summer 2007 Tai-Hsuan Wu (Ph.D.) – Summer 2006 to Summer 2007 Hsiang-Kuo Tang (Ph.D.) – Summer 2006 to Summer 2007 Neil Hockert – MS 6/2007 Payam Karbassi – MS 12/2006 Steven Myers – MS 12/2006 Jae Young Oh - MS 6/2005 Chandan Parameswara - MS 12/2005 Jacob Adriaens - MS 12/2005 For more detailed student info, please visit the Students page.
Service	International Workshop on Wireless Communications in Medical Applications (WCMA'07) Technical Program Committee Technical Program Committee, IEEE Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2007) 12-2006 - Hao Chen, Ph.D. Prelim Exam committee member Technical Program Committee, IEEE GlobeCom 2006 Technical Program Committee, IEEE ICC 2007 Fall 2007 - ECE MS Exam, QII, AGS, Grad Admission and Fellowship Committees Technical Program Committee, ICSNC’06 - MHNET 2006 Technical Program Committee, IASTED WSN Symposium 2006 4-2006 - Tai Lin, Ph.D. Defense committee member Spring 2006 - UW ECE department, MS Exam and AGS Committee Fall 2005 - UW ECE department, MS Exam and AGS Committee Spring 2005 - UW ECE department, QII and MS exam Committees Technical Program Committee meeting, 6-2005 - IEEE SECON, Santa Barbara, CA Technical Program Committee, IEEE SECON 2004 and 2005 4-2005 - Manish Bhardwaj Ph.D. Preliminary exam committee member.
Past Funding	UW Graduate School Research Committee - Fall Competition (9/2006) Networked Embedded Systems for Autonomous Long Term Monitoring, Learning, and Control PI: Seapahn Megerian Status: Funded, 1 RA at 50%. 3M Nontenured Faculty Grant – renewed. Status: Funded, $15,000 11/2006. NSF Grant (2/2005) Reliable, Accurate, and Long-Term Environmental Monitoring using Networks of Sensors PI: Seapahn Megerian, Co PI: Robert Nowak Program: NSF 04-522, ECS - SENSOR SMALL TEAMS (SST) Status: Funded – Total funding for 3 years $400,000. Proposal for joint work with Johnson Controls Inc. (Milwaukee, WI) Low Cost Wireless Distributed Sensing and Actuation for Environmental Monitoring and Control PIs: Seapahn Megerian and Parmesh Ramanathan Status: Funded Fall 2005 – Total 1 50% RA for 1 year. Project term: 11-2005 to 11-2006. 3M Nontenured Faculty Grant Status: Funded, $15,000 11-2005. DARPA - STTR (4/15/2005) Efficient Collaborative Image Processing and Flow Assignment with Field of View Coverage in ELASTIC ST051-009 - Expendable Local Area Sensors in a Tactically Interconnected Cluster Joint submission with Techfinity Corp. in Calabasas, CA Status: Funded, Phase I, 1 year, $100K Total Project kicked off in 8/2005 – Completed. UW Graduate School Research Committee - Fall Competition (9/2004) Reliable, Accurate, and Long-Term Environmental Monitoring using Networks of Sensors PI: Seapahn Megerian Status: Funded 1/9 Summer Salary and 1/9 Graduate Student Support (total $16K) Note: Did not use since NSF proposal was funded.

Conference Papers

S. Myers, S. Banerjee, S. Megerian, M. Potkonjak, "Experimental Investigation of IEEE 802.15.4 Transmission Power Control and Interference Minimization." Fourth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2007), June 2007.
J. Wong, S. Megerian, M. Potkonjak, "Minimizing Global Interconnect in DSP Systems using Bypassing." IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), 2007.
J. Wong, S. Megerian, M. Potkonjak, "Symmetric Monotonic Regression: Techniques and Applications in Sensor Networks." IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, 2007.
Y. Lin, S. Megerian, "Sensing Driven Clustering for Monitoring and Control Applications." 2007 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, January 2007.
H. Chen, S. Megerian, "Efficient Data Collection through Compression-Centric Routing." In proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2006, November 2006.
J. Wong, S. Megerian, "Staggered Sampling for Energy Efficient Data Collection." Proceedings of IEEE Sensors, October 2006.
J. Adriaens, S. Megerian, M. Potkonjak, "Optimal Worst-Case Coverage of Directional Field-of-View Sensor Networks." Third annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2006), Vol 1, pp. 336-346, September 2006. Link
Y. Lin, S. Megerian, "Energy Conservation in Sensor Networks using Active Prediction." Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI2006), September 2006.
H. Chen, S. Megerian, "Cluster Sizing and Head Selection for Efficient Data Aggregation and Routing in Sensor Networks." IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2006), Vol. 4, pp. 2318-2323, April 2006. Link
Y. Lin, S. Megerian, "Low Cost Distributed Actuation in Large-Scale Ad Hoc Sensor-Actuator Networks." Proceedings of IEEE WirelessCom 2005, June 2005.
J. Feng, S. Megerian, and M. Potkonjak. "Model-based Calibration for Sensor Networks." IEEE International Conference on Sensors, Toronto, Canada, Oct 2003.
J. L. Wong, S. Megerian, M. Potkonjak. "Design Techniques for Sensor Appliances: Foundations and Light Compass Case Study." 40th IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC 2003), pp. 66-71, June 2003.
V. Bychkovskiy, S. Megerian, D. Estrin, M. Potkonjak. "Colibration: A Collaborative Approach to In-Place Sensor Calibration." 2nd International Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'03), pp. 301-316, April 2003.
S. Slijepcevic, S. Megerian, M. Potkonjak. "Analysis of Location Error in Wireless Sensor Networks."]] 2nd International Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'03), pp. 593-608, April 2003.
S. Megerian, M. Drinic, M. Potkonjak. "Watermarking Integer Linear Programming Solutions." 39th IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, pp. 8-13, June 2002.
J. Wong, S. Megerian, M. Potkonjak. "Forward-Looking Objective Functions: Concepts and Applications in High Level Synthesis." 39th IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, pp. 904-909, June 2002.
J. Wong, S. Meguerdichian, F. Koushanfar, A. Mogre, D. Petranovic, M. Potkonjak. "Probabilistic Control Search Strategies for Hardware and Software Optimization During Solution Space Exploration." Invited paper, Parallel Computations and Control Problems (PACO), pp. 1-18, October 2001.
J. Wong, F. Koushanfar, S. Meguerdichian, M. Potkonjak. "A Probabilistic Constructive Approach to Optimization Problems." IEEE/ACM ICCAD 2001, pp. 453-456, November 2001.
S. Meguerdichian, S. Slijepcevic, V. Karayan, M. Potkonjak. "Localized Algorithms in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks: Location Discovery and Sensor Exposure." 2nd ACM Int. Symp. on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHOC’01), pp. 106-116, October 2001.
S. Meguerdichian, F. Koushanfar, G. Qu, M. Potkonjak. "Exposure in Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks." 7th Int. Conf. on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom '01), pp. 139-150, July 2001. Recipient of the Best Student Paper award.
S. Meguerdichian, M. Drinic, D. Kirovski. "Latency-Driven Design of Multi-Purpose Systems-on-Chip." 38th IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, pp. 27-30, 2001.
S. Meguerdichian, F. Koushanfar, A. Mogre, D. Petranovic, M. Potkonjak. "MetaCores: Design and Optimization Techniques." 38th IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, pp. 585-590, June 2001.
S. Meguerdichian, F. Koushanfar, M. Potkonjak, M. Srivastava. "Coverage Problems in Wireless Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks." IEEE Infocom 2001, Vol 3, pp. 1380-1387, April 2001.
M. Drinic, D. Kirovski, S. Meguerdichian, M. Potkonjak. "Latency-Guided On-Chip Bus Network Design." IEEE/ACM ICCAD 2000, pp. 420-426, November 2000.
S. Meguerdichian, M. Potkonjak. "Watermarking While Preserving the Critical Path." 37th IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, pp. 108-111, June 2000.

Journal Papers

M. Drinic, D. Kirovski, S. Megerian, M. Potkonjak, "Latency-Guided On-Chip Bus Network Design." IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol 25, No. 12, pp 2663-2673, December 2006. Link
S. Megerian, F. Koushanfar, M. Potkonjak, M. Srivastava. "Worst and Best-case Coverage in Sensor Networks." IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol 4, No. 1, pp. 84-92, January/February 2005.
J. L. Wong, F. Koushanfar, S. Megerian, M. Potkonjak, "Probabilistic Constructive Optimization Techniques." IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, June 2004.
S. Megerian, F. Koushanfar, G. Qu, G. Veltri, M. Potkonjak. "Exposure in Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Practical Solutions." Journal of Wireless Networks 8 (5), ACM Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 443-454, September 2002.
S. Slijepcevic, S. Megerian, M. Potkonjak. "Location Errors in Wireless Embedded Sensor Networks: Sources, Models, and Effects on Applications." ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 67-78, 2002.

Ph.D. Thesis

Seapahn Megerian, "Sensor Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks." Computer Science Department, University of California Los Angeles, 2005.
Note: 5.84MB pdf file.

Book Chapters

S. Megerian, Miodrag Potkonjak. "Wireless Sensor Networks." Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, Editor: John G. Proakis, ISBN: 0-471-36972-1, December 2002.

Patents

M. Potkonjak, S. Megerian, A. Mogre, D. Petronavic, "Metacores: design and optimization techniques." United States Patent 7,017,126, March 21, 2006.
M. Potkonjak, S. Megerian, A. Mogre, D. Petronavic, "Multi-resolution Viterbi decoding technique." United States Patent 6,948,114, September 20, 2005.
M. Potkonjak, S. Megerian, A. Mogre, D. Petronavic, "Design and optimization methods for integrated circuits." United States Patent 6,931,612, August 16, 2005.

Interviews, Citations, and Quotations

University of Wisconsin Madison ECE News: "Candid Cameras: Setting up wireless networks for surveillance and beyond." Elizabeth Ahlberg (Editor), Fall/Winter 2006-2007.
Janesville Gazette (WI) Interview: "War driving raises ethics questions." Frank Schultz, September 24, 2006.
Janesville Gazette (WI) Interview: "Wireless: Cheap, easy and potentially dangerous." Frank Schultz, September 24, 2006.
Certification Magazine Interview: "Wireless Sensor Networks: Structure and Protocol." Brian Summerfield, Web Editor, March 2006.
Certification Magazine Interview: "Measuring Our World with Wireless Sensor Networks." Brian Summerfield, Web Editor, February 2006.

Unpublished works and technical reports

Seapahn Megerian, Miodrag Potkonjak, "Low Power 0/1 Coverage and Scheduling Techniques in Sensor Networks." UCLA Technical Reports 030001. January 2003.