Hossein Falaki

Hossein Falaki

Ph.D. Candidate
Computer Science Department
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of California, Los Angeles


UCLA
3551M Boelter Hall
Box 951596
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596

 Phone: 310-206-2476
Fax: 310-206-3053
Email: falaki at cs dot ucla dot edu
Web: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~falaki/

Education | Research | Publications | Presentations | Projects | Courses | Bio | CV

University of California, Los Angeles


Center for Embedded Networked Sensing

I am a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate and a member of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS). I work with Prof. Deborah Estrin, and Prof. Ramesh Govindan.

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, present

M.Math. Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2008.

B.S. Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2006.

Research

I am generally interested in Computer Networks, and Operating Systems. My research is focused on making mobile phones smarter networked devices especially when they are used in health applications.

As a Master's student at the University of Waterloo, I was a member of the Tetherless Computing Lab, where I worked on the KioskNet Project with Prof. S. Keshav. I also studied scanning strategies for opportunistic communication over Wi-Fi on multi-NIC mobile devices.


Recent Publications (publications list)
SystemSens: A Tool for Monitoring Usage in Smartphone Research Deployments , Hossein Falaki, Ratul Mahajan, and Deborah Estrin, ACM MobiArch 2011 [PDF] [BibTeX]

A First Look at Traffic on Smartphones, Hossein Falaki, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Ratul Mahajan, Srikanth Kandula, and Deborah Estrin, IMC November 2010 [PDF] [BibTeX]

Diversity in Smartphone Usage, Hossein Falaki, Ratul Mahajan, Srikanth Kandula, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Ramesh Govindan, and Deborah Estrin, MobiSys'10, June 2010 [PDF] [BibTeX]

Presentations & talks
SystemSens: A Tool for Monitoring Usage in Smartphone Research Deployments, MobiArch June 2011 [slides]
Diversity in Smartphone Usage, MobiSys, June 2010 [slides]
WLAN Interface Management on Mobile Devices, University of Waterloo Master's Thesis Presentation, July 2008 [slides] [abstract]
The Case for Opportunistic Communication, CENS Technical Seminar Series, University of Califronia, Los Angeles, February 2008 [slides] [abstract]
The Wi-Fi Roaming Game, Networks & Distributed Systems Seminars, University of Waterloo, October 2007 [slides]
Selected papers from MobiSys 2007, Networks & Distributed Systems Seminars, University of Waterloo, July 2007 [slides]
Performance Evaluation and Analysis of Delay Tolerant Networking, Workshop on System Evaluation for Mobile Platforms (MobiEval), Puerto Rico, June 2007 [slides]
Performance Evaluation and Analysis of Delay Tolerant Networking, Networks & Distributed Systems Seminars, University of Waterloo, June 2007 [slides] [abstract]

Projects

  • SystemSens is an Android logging tool that collects system level information and visualizes them on a web server.
  • SystemLog is the equivalent of Syslog for Android.
  • WiFiGPSLocation is an Andriod service that duty-cycles the GPS based on WiFi signature.
  • Participatory mHealth course: I helped Prof. Estrin with her Participatory mHealth class during Spring 2011.


Courses
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Waterloo
Short Biography

Hossein Falaki is a Ph.D. candidate at the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Los Angeles. He is generally interested in computer networks and operating systems. His current research is focused on improving performance and usability of smartphones through automated personalization. Hossein received an M.Math in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, and a BSc in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, in 2008 and 2006, respectively.

Last updated: May. 15, 2010