Prior to joining Dartmouth in 2005, Andrew was an associate professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University (1996-2005) and a member of the COMET Group where he developed a number of mobile networking technologies.
Andrew is an experimental computer scientist working in the area of ubiquitous computing. His current research is focused on turning the everyday smartphone into an uber-smartphone by pushing machine learning to the phone and the computing cloud.
These über-smartphones exploit embedded sensors (e.g., accelerometer, digital compass, gyroscope, GPS, microphone and camera) and learn human behavior, the surrounding context and life patterns.
Mobile phone sensing is poised to be at the center
of the next revolution in social networks, mobile health care and
well-being, green applications and global
environmental monitoring -- see
his ACM MobiOpp 2010 keynote on
mobile phone sensing is the next big thing.
Andrew is listed among computer scientists with an academic index (i.e., h-index) greater
than 40. The h-index is a method for ranking researchers based on the
number of papers they publish and citations they receive.
He received his Ph.D. in
Computer Science (1996) from Lancaster University, England, the NSF
Career Award (1999) for his research in programmable
wireless
networking and the IBM Faculty Award. He did his Ph.D. on quality of service architecture for
computer networks with his advisor David Hutchison. Prior to joining
academia he spent 10 years working in
the software industry in the US, UK and Netherlands, developing
operating systems and protocols for computer
networks
and wireless packet networks.
Andrew
has been a technical program
chair for ACM MobiCom and ACM MobiHoc, the general chair for
ACM SenSys 2006, and SenSys steering committee chair
2008-2009. He has
also served on editorial board for a number of leading ACM and IEEE
journals including ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Reviews, IEEE
Transactions on Mobile Computing and IEEE Transactions on Networking.
He is a co-chair for the NSF sponsored workshop on pervasive computing
at scale. Results from his research has been published widely in top
academic conferences and journals as well as other media such as the
New York Times Magazine and CBS News Sunday Morning.
Andrew spent his
sabbatical year
(2003-2004) at the Computer Lab, Cambridge University, as an EPSRC
Visiting Fellow, and fall 2009 as a visiting professor at the
University of Salamanca, Spain.
He lives in Norwich, Vermont with his wife, Susan Zak, and their sons, Miles and Will; plays squash and tenor sax and has ran nine marathons.