MobiSys 2016: PhD Forum (June 26th, 2016)

Program

Session 1: Keynote #1 (9:00 - 10:00)

• Managing Risk in an Academic Career: a Personal Perspective, Prof. Ben Y. Zhao (UC Santa Barbara)

Coffee break (10:00 - 10:30)

Session 2: Mobile Applications, Sensing, and Users (10:30 - 12:00)

• Defending against Sybil Devices in Crowdsourced Mapping Services, Bolun Wang (UCSB)
• Using Mobile Sensing to Predict Episodes of Medical Conditions, Daniyal Liaqat, (Univ. of Toronto)
• Arm Posture Tracking Using a Smartwatch, Sheng Shen (UIUC)
• Understanding Mobile User Engagement with Pervasive Computing Systems, Mateusz Mikusz (Lancaster Univ.)

Lunch break (12:00 - 13:00)

Session 3: Mobile Systems and Platform (13:00 - 15:00)

• Empirically Derived Mechanisms to Detect and Deal with the Cause of Performance Drop in WiFi Networks, Dheryta Jaisinghani(IIIT Delhi)
• Composing Adaptive Software Systems in Decentralized Infrastructures, Markus Wutzler (TU Dresden)
• API Virtualization for Platform Openness in Android, Taeyeon Ki (Univ. at Buffalo)
• Exploiting Scattered Data in Smart Systems, Vittorio Cozzolino (TU Munich)

Coffee break (15:00 - 15:30)

Session 4: Keynote #2 (15:30 - 16:30)

• Billion and billions served. Systems and networking for researchers at Google, Ben Greenstein (Google)