Peer-reviewed Conferences and Workshops



  1. 1.[MobiSys] Zheng Sun, Aveek Purohit, Raja Bose, and Pei Zhang. “Spatial-Aware Interaction for Mobile Devices Through Energy-Efficient Audio Sensing.” In the 11th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services. ACM MobiSys, Taipei, Taiwan, June, 2013. [pdf]


  1. 2.[SECON] Aveek Purohit, Zheng Sun, Shijia Pan and Pei Zhang. SugarTrail : Indoor Navigation in Retail Environments without Surveys and Maps. To appear in the Tenth IEEE Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON 2013), New Orleans, USA, June 2013. [pdf]


  1. 3.[IPSN] Aveek Purohit, Zheng Sun, and Pei Zhang. “SugarMap: Location-less Coverage for Micro-Aerial Sensing Swarms.” In the 12th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks. ACM/IEEE IPSN, Philadelphia, PA, April 2013.  [pdf]

  2. 4.[HotMobile] Zheng Sun, Aveek Purohit, Shijia Pan, Frank Mokaya, Raja Bose, and Pei Zhang. “Polaris: Getting Accurate Indoor Orientations for Mobile Devices Using Ubiquitous Visual Patterns on Ceilings.” In The Thirteenth Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2012). [pdf]

  3. 5.[Ubicomp Workshop] Pei Zhang and Aveek Purohit. “The Cloud Meets the Crowd: A Framework for Distributed Cloud Sensing”. In the Workshop on Mobile Sensing: Challenges, Opportunities and Future Directions, held in conjunction with the 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), Beijing, China, September 2011.

  4. 6.[Ubicomp] Zheng Sun, Aveek Purohit, Kaifei Chen, Shijia Pan, Trevor Perring, and Pei Zhang. “PANDAA: Physical Arrangement Detection of Networked Devices through Ambient-Sound Awareness”. In the 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), Beijing, China, September 2011. (Affiliated demo received the Best Demo Award) [pdf]

  5. 7.[IWCMC Workshop] Aveek Purohit and Pei Zhang. “Controlled-Mobile Sensing Simulator for Indoor Fire Monitoring”. In the First IEEE Workshop on Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems (CyPhy'11), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011. [pdf]

  6. 8.[IPSN] Aveek Purohit, Zheng Sun, Frank Mokaya, and Pei Zhang. SensorFly: Controlled-mobile Sensing Platform for Indoor Emergency Response Applications. In the 10th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks. ACM/IEEE IPSN, Chicago, IL, April 2011. [pdf]

  7. 9.[IPSN] Aveek Purohit, Bodhi Priyantha, and Jie Liu. WiFlock: Collaborative Group Discovery and Maintenance in Mobile Sensor Networks. In the 10th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks. ACM/IEEE IPSN, Chicago, IL, April 2011. [pdf]

  8. 10.[Mobisense] Zheng Sun, Aveek Purohit, Kathleen Yang, Neha Pattan, Dan Siewiorek, Asim Smailagic, Ian Lane, and Pei Zhang. “CoughLoc: Location-Aware Indoor Acoustic Sensing for Non-Intrusive Cough Detection”. In the International Workshop on Emerging Mobile Sensing Technologies, Systems, and Applications. Mobisense, San Francisco, CA, June 2011. [pdf]



Demos and Posters


  1. 11.[SIGCOMM] Zheng Sun, Aveek Purohit, Philippe De Wagter, Irina Brinster, Chorom Hamm, and Pei Zhang. “(Demo abstract) PANDAA: A Physical Arrangement Detection Technique for Networked Devices through Ambient-Sound Awareness”. In the conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), Toronto, ON, Canada, August 2011.

  2. 12.[MobiSys] Zheng Sun, Aveek Purohit, KathleenYang, Neha Pattan, Dan Siewiorek, Asim Smailagic, Ian Lane, and Pei Zhang. “(Poster) VMA: Indoor Acoustic Sensing Platform for In-home Patient Monitoring”. In the 8th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services. ACM MobiSys, San Francisco, CA, June, 2010.

  3. 13.[Sensys] Aveek Purohit and Pei Zhang. 2009. SensorFly: a controlled-mobile aerial sensor network. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Berkeley, California, November 04 - 06, 2009). SenSys '09. ACM, New York, NY, 327-328. (Best Demo Award)


Popular Media



  1. 14.“Next frontier in emergency response”, NBC NEWS, Jan 2014 [Link]


  1. 15.“Always On: Helibots to the rescue!”, CNET TV, July 2012 [Link]

  2. 16.“Carnegie Mellon's flying robots”, CBS SMART-PLANET, May 2011[Link]

  3. 17.Featured on Sci Fi Science, DISCOVERY SCIENCE CHANNEL, Sep 2010 [Preview]

  4. 18.“Swarm Bots”, BBC FOCUS MAGAZINE, Mar 2010 [Link] [pdf]

  5. 19.“Aerobot Invasion: World’s Newest & Most Spectacular Unmanned Aircraft”, POPULAR SCIENCE, Mar 2010

  6. 20.“Networked surveillance minicopters can't be kept down”, NEW SCIENTIST, Nov 2009 [Link]

  7. 21.“SensorFly robots hunt in packs and can take a battering”, WIRED, Nov 2009 [Link]

  8. 22.“Self-righting autonomous swarming robots”, MAKEZINE, Nov 2009 [Link]

  9. 23.“SensorFly survives racket beatdown”, BOT JUNKIE, Nov 2009 [Link]

  10. 24.“SensorFly Wins Best Demo at SenSys 2009”, Carnegie Mellon CIT Feature, Nov 2009 [Link]

  11. 25.“SensorFly for Hazardous Situations”, Carnegie Mellon Homepage Stories, Aug 2009 [Link]



Talks



  1. 26.“SensorFly”, Talks on Computing Systems, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, March 2009 [Link]

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