Nicholas D. Lane

niclane at cs dot dartmouth dot edu

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What's new

Hong Lu, Wei Pan, Nicholas D. Lane, Tanzeem Choudhury, Andrew T. Campbell, "SoundSense: Scalable Sound Sensing for People-Centric Applications on Mobile Phones", ACM MobiSys 2009, Kraków, Poland, 22-25 June 2009.

Interests

Mobile phone based sensing applications and systems. Intersection of machine learning, mobile systems and computer networking.

Affiliations

I work with some great people as part of: the Sensor Networks Group, the MetroSense project and CenceMe.

My Research

I am a 4th year PhD student working with Andrew T. Campbell in the Sensor Lab at Dartmouth. My research interests revolve around people-centric sensing applications and systems. I am an experimentalist who likes to build prototype mobile sensing systems based on well founded models. I have worked on a variety of sensing platforms (e.g., mote-class sensors, mobile phones) and have experience not only in evaluating network and system performance but have conducted a number of user studies and analyzed sensor data; for example, when designing classifiers that recognize forms of human behavior. Results from my research have been published in number of conferences including ACM SenSys, ACM MobiSys, Pervasive, and HotMobile. I have worked on a number of aspects of people-centric sensing systems including: system architecture, applications (e.g., CenceMe), localization, calibration, sensor co-ordination and the classification of high level events (e.g., music is playing) from a wide range of low-level sensor modalities (e.g., audio, location, accelerometer). I have also worked in industry before leaping into research.