Grant from Corn and Sorghum board to study Crowdsourcing for Agricultural Applications Awarded 2012 (~100K over three years)

NSF I-Corps grant ($50,000) awarded ( abstract )

NSF CSR grant 2011 (for Green Homes) ($400,000 total) awarded ( abstract )

NSF CAREER Award 2011 (~$450,000) awarded ( abstract )

NSF CSR grant 2010 (for Emergency Mesh) (~$485,000) got awarded ( abstract )

Unity Great Education Grand Prize (blog link here)

Supported through a hardware grant (mobile phones) from Microsoft Research (Hawaii initiative )

Senior investigator on awarded NSF MRI-2 grant ( abstract )

Xiangyu Liu wins a Honor's College grant (~$2500) to study search paradigms on smartphones

Where Objects Talk to Each Other Research Frontiers

An Emergency network for natural disasters Newswise (and several others)

USF research explores off-the-grid challenges San Franciso Business Times

Making Living Off-grid Easy, NPR interview

Going Green at Home Made Easier with iPhone App, Newswise , EscienceNews.com , Zeenews , Yahoo! news , Economics Times and several others.

Bringing the Cloud to a Smartphone Near You , Microsoft Research Connections Blog .

Google Scholar Profile , "Concurrent Wi-Fi" paper accepted to CoNext 2011 , "Automating Green Home Energy Management" wins Best Paper Award! at HomeNets 2011. Spider poster accepted to Sigcomm . Green Home paper accepted to HomeNets . I received the Outstanding Researcher award from the College of Engineering this year! Uploaded videos on cool projects in the MPSS lab ( here ). My Ph.D. student David Lachut wins the uark Distinguished Academy Fellowship. e-nanoplast paper accepted to Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine, Mirage paper to appear in COMSNETS 2011, Two papers accepted to Spie Conference on Nano- Bio- Info- Tech Sensors and Systems,Virtual Compass paper accepted to Pervasive 2010, Won the Yahoo! Outstanding Thesis Award for 2008-09! Our MPSS lab webpage goes online. Stay tuned for some super-cool research. Throwbox paper accepted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, DOME paper accepted to ACM HotPlanet 2009. Gave a talk at IPAM UCLA on my work at Intel Research, Berkeley. Finished a summer internship at Microsoft Research Redmond (had an amazing experience working with Sharad Agarwal, Ranveer Chandra, Alec Wolman, and Victor Bahl), Relays/Meshes/Base stations paper accepted to Mobicom 2008. Nominated for the IBM Research Fellowship, "Users and Batteries" paper accepted in Ubicomp 07 , Passed my Portfolio (PhD candidate exam) with distinction-- a honour given to 13 CS students since 1995., Nominated for Graduate School Fellowship , Will spend a summer at Intel Research, Berkeley and would work with Kevin Fall, Triage paper accepted in Mobisys 07, Throwbox paper accepted in Infocom 07, Llama poster in WMCSA 06, Turducken paper in Mobisys 05

2012 : WiNTECH 2012 (Program committee and Poster/Demo chair) , ACM MCS (Program Committee) , ACM HotPlanet 2012 (Program committee) , MobiOpp 2012 (Program Committee) , ICCCN 2012 , WoWMoM 2012

2011 : IEEE ICPADS 2011 (Program Committee , ACM MobiArch 2011 (Program Committee) , ACM Mobicom 2011 (Program Committee) , IEEE WoWMom 2011 (Program Committee) , IEEE ICCCN 2011 (Program committee) , The 7th International Conference on Mobile-adhoc and Sensor Networking Conference (MSN 2011, Program committee)

2010 : MobiHoc 2010 (Program Committee), MobiHoc/MobiCom 2010 Student Travel Grant Committee , CHANTS 2010 (Program Committee) , ACM MobiHeld 2010 (held in conjunction with Sigcomm 2010), Poster/Demo Chair (MobiHeld 2010) , IEEE WoWMom 2010 (Program Committee), ACM MobiOpp 2010 (Program Committee), IEEE ICCC-WNET 2010 (Program Committee), VTC-Spring 2010.

2009 and earlier: HotPlanet 2009 (Program Committee), ACM MobiHoc S3 Workshop (Program Committee), WON08, WON07 (Program Commitee), HotMobile 2009 (Publicity Chair)

Reviewer for several journals: IEEE ToN, COMNET, ASOC, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Networks, PMC

Last semester I taught a senior elective, Mobile Systems Programming Overall student ratings (Course: 4.71, Instructor: 4.95, Mean of all Medians: 4.68) I taught the Hot Topics in Mobile and Pervasive Computing course (Overall student ratings: 19 students, 4.8) . I am part of the Microsoft Research Hawaii initiative. At UofA, we are developing several cloud -enabled applications using the toolkit (click here for detail). Last Fall (Fall 2010), I taught Programming Paradigms (Overall Student rating (48 students): 4.7/5.0) , Last Spring (Spring 2010) I taught Programming Paradigms (Overall student rating (36 students: 4.6/5.0). Last Fall (Fall 2009) I taught CSCE 5013 Hot Topics in Mobile and Pervasive Computing (Overall student rating (18 students: 4.4/5.0) . During Spring 2008, I taught Programming in C++) at UMass.

I am broadly interested in embedded and distributed systems research for mobile computing. My research touches various areas including energy management in mobile and sensor systems [Triage:MobiSys07, Turducken:Mobisys05] , mobile networking [Hybrid Networks:Mobicom08], disruption/delay tolerant networking [Throwbox:Infocom07, ToN10], and healthcare [e-nanoflex: JNEM 2011, SPIE 2011]. I am also interested in mobile system usability [Llama:Ubicomp07], mobile social systems [Virtual Compass: Pervasive 2010], mobile testbed construction [DOME:HotPlanet09], and understanding structure of networks using random graph theory. A list of research projects I am working on can be found on our lab webpage .

H. Soroush, P.Gilbert, N. Banerjee, B. N. Levine, M. D. Corner, Landon Cox Concurrent Wi-Fi for Mobile Users: Analysis and Measurements, ACM CoNext 2011

N. Banerjee, S. Rollins, K. Moran Automating Energy Management in Green Homes , ACM Sigcomm workshop on Home Networks (HomeNets) 2011, Best Paper Award

V. K. Varadan, P. S. Kumar, S. Oh, H. Kwon, P. Rai, N. Banerjee, R. E. Harbaugh e-Nanoflex Sensor System: Smartphone-based Roaming Health Monitor , Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine (To Appear)

N. Banerjee, S. Agarwal, R. Chandra, A. Wolman, V. Bahl, M. D. Corner Virtual Compass: Relative Positioning To Sense Mobile Social Interactions In Proceedings of Pervasive 2010 (Nominated for Best Paper Award)

N. Banerjee, M. D. Corner and B. N. Levine, An Energy-Efficient Architecture for DTN Throwboxes , IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (April, 2010)

H. Soroush, N. Banerjee, A. Balasubramanian, M. D. Corner, B. N. Levine, B. Lynn Dome: A Diverse Outdoor Mobile Testbed, In Proceedings of ACM HotPlanet 2009 (held in conjunction with MobiSys 09), longer version available as Technical Report UM-CS-2009-23, UMass-Amherst, 2009.

N. Banerjee, M. D. Corner, D. Towsley and B. Levine, Relays, Meshes, Base Stations: Enhancing Mobile Networks with Infrastructure , In Proceedings of ACM Mobicom, San Francisco, CA, USA, September 2008

N. Banerjee, A. Rahmati, M. D. Corner, S. Rollins and L. Zhong Users and Batteries : Interactions and Adaptive Energy Management in mobile systems , In Proceedings of Ubicomp 2007, Innsbruck, Austria, September 2007

N. Banerjee, J. Sorber, M. D. Corner, S. Rollins and D. Ganesan, Triage : Balancing Energy Consumption and Quality of Service in a Microserver , In Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (Mobisys 2007), Puerto Rico, June 2007.

N. Banerjee, M. D. Corner and B. N. Levine, An Energy-Efficient Architecture for DTN Throwboxes , In Proceedings of INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage Alaska. , May 2007

J. Sorber, N. Banerjee, M. D. Corner and S. Rollins. Turducken : Hierarchical Power Management for Mobile Devices , In Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (Mobisys 2005), Seattle.

Denitsa Tilkidjieva, Nilanjan Banerjee, Maria Kazandjieva, Sami Rollins, Mark D. Corner. LLAMA : An Adaptive Strategy for Performing Background Tasks on Mobile Devices (Poster) , In 7th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA/Hotmobile 2006), Also as Technical Report 06-44, UMass Amherst. .

R. Kumar and N. Banerjee Running Time Analysis of a Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm on the 0-1 knapsack Problem , Theoretical Computer Science, 358 (1), 104 - 120, July 2006, Elsevier

A. Sarkar, A. Banerjee, N. Banerjee, S. Brahma, B. Kartekeyan and K. L. Majumdar. Landcover Classification in the MRF Context Using Dempster-Shafer Fusion for Multisensor Imagery , IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. vol 14, No. 5, May 2005.

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I am involved in number of sports activities. I play a lot of tennis, table tennis, field hockey, and cricket. I am also involved in dramatics, elocuting and debating. I am trying out my luck at photography and visiting places. I will put up some of my (not so great) pics soon.