Samir Das

Rank/Position Title:

Associate Professor

Home Page:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~samir

Date of original appointment to this faculty, followed by dates and ranks of advancement:

September 1, 2002 .

Degrees:

Conferences, workshops, and professional development:

• ACM Mobicom, 2004 (research conference)
• ACM MobiSys, 2004 (research conference)
• Microsoft Research Mesh Networking Summit, 2004 (reseach workshop, by invitation only)
• CEWIT Conferemce, 2003,2004 (research conference, industry expo)
• ACM MobiHoc, 2003 (research conference)
• IEEE WCNC, 2003 (research conference)
• IWDC 2003 (research conference)
• CAworld, 2003 (industrial expo)
• Microsoft research faculty summit, 2003, 2004 (research and teaching conference,
• included sessions on teaching tools using Microsoft software)
• NSF Networking PI workshop, 2003 (research workshop)
• IWDC 2002 research conference) ACM MobiCom, 2002 (research conference)
• Quality Education for Minorities grant-writing workshop, 2003, 2004
• (attended) as a consultant and panelist; workshop had sessions on effective
• teaching methods)

Other related computing experience:

Panelist for NSF proposal review - 8 times between 2000-2003. Panelist for Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Workshops – 2003 and 2004.

Department, college, and/or university committee membership:

• Department faculty hiring committee.
• Department graduate admissions committee.
• Department operations committee (responsibilities include laboratory Setup and improvement, among others)

Principal publications of the last five years.

• S. Patil, S. R. Das and A. Nasipuri, Serial Data Fusion Using
• Space-filling Curves in Wireless Sensor Networks, Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Santa Clara , CA , Oct 2004.
• Z. Zhou, S. R. Das, H. Gupta, Variable Radii Connected Sensor Cover in Sensor Networks, Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc
• Communications and Networks (SECON), Santa Clara , CA , Oct 2004.
• Z. Zhou, S. R. Das, H. Gupta, Connected K-Coverage Problem in Sensor Networks, Proc. of the 13th Int. Conf. on Computer Communication and Networks (IC3N), Chicago, IL, Oct 2004.
• V. Kumar and S. R. Das, ``Performance of Dead Reckoning-Based Location Service for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,'' Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing journal, February 2004.
• H. Gupta, S. R. Das and Q. Gu, ``Connected Sensor Cover:
• Self-Organization of the Sensor Network for Efficient Query Execution, Proceedings of the Fourth Annual ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc),} Annapolis, Maryland, Junem 2003, pages 189-200.
• R. Castaneda, S. R. Das and M. Marina, ``Query Localization Techniques for
• On-Demand Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks (WINET) Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2, March 2002, pages 137--151.

Other scholarly activity: grants, sabbaticals, software development, etc.:

• National Science Foundation, 2002-05, ``Exploiting Spatial and Channel Diversity in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,'' $229,991, PI: Samir Das.
• Computer Associates, 2003-04, ``Mesh Networks for Wireless Devices,'' $82,885. PI: Samir Das.
• NYSTAR/SensorCAT, 2003-04, ``Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,'' $20,577. PI: Samir Das.
• National Science Foundation, 1999-2003, ``Collaborative Proposal: Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,'' $157,772, PI: Samir Das, Co-PI: Asis Nasipuri (UNC-Charlotte)
• National Science Foundation, 2001-2003, REU supplement to the above grant, $14,250, PI: Samir Das, Co-PI: Asis Nasipuri (UNC-Charlotte).
• National Science Foundation, Faculty Early CAREER Award, 1998-2003,``Parallel Discrete Event Simulation -- Protocols, Tools and Applications,'' $220,000, PI: Samir Das.

Scientific, professional, and honor societies of which you are a member:

ACM and IEEE.

Honors and awards:

NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award, 1998 IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor, 2001-2003 The "Amber" Award, from the University of Texas at San Antonio Student Ambassadors, in recognition of the outstanding contribution and service to the students at the University of Texas at San Antonio, 1999.

Courses taught this and last academic year term-by-term

Academic advising:

Graduate – 8

Assigned advisor for 18 undergraduate students during 2004/2005 academic year.

Brief description of major research and scholarly activities:

Research in wireless ad hoc and sensor networking - protocols, algorithms, evaluation and application. ACM MobiCom technical program committee co-chair, 2004 Editor, Ad Hoc Networks Journal. Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Program committee member of a number of networking related conferences and workshops.