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Allen K. L. Miu
PhD Candidate
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
The Stata Center, Building 32 G930
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-8236
aklmiu{preposition}mit.edu

Graduated June, 2006

Since July 2006, I've joined Ruckus Wireless as a Wireless Systems Architect.

Research

Interests:

Wireless Systems, Networking protocols, algorithms, and measurements, Mobile Computing, Location-aware applications and tracking technologies, Sensor networks and embedded systems

Research Advisor: Professor Hari Balakrishnan

Current Projects:

Past Projects:

Publications:

Conferences

Bret Hull, Vladimir Bychkovsky, Kevin Chen, Michel Goraczko, Allen Miu, Eugene Shih, Yang Zhang, Hari Balakrishnan, and Samuel Madden, CarTel: A Distributed Mobile Sensor Computing System, Proc. 4th ACM SenSys, Boulder, CO, November, 2006.

Vladimir Bychkovsky, Bret Hull, Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden, A Measurement Study of Vehicular Internet Access Using In Situ Wi-Fi Networks, Proc. 12th ACM MobiCom, Los Angeles, CA, September, 2006.

Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Can Emre Koksal, Improving Loss Resilience with Multi-Radio Diversity in Wireless Networks, Proc. 11th ACM MobiCom, Cologne, Germany, August, 2005. (Best Paper Candidate)

Allen Miu, Godfrey Tan, Hari Balakrishnan, John G. Apostolopoulos, Divert: Fine-grained Path Selection for Wireless LANs, Proc. 2nd ACM MobiSys, Boston, MA, June, 2004, pp. 203-216.

Allen Miu, John G. Apostolopoulos, Wai-tian Tan and Mitchell Trott, Low-Latency Wireless Video Over 802.11 Networks Using Path Diversity, Proc. IEEE ICME, Baltimore, MD, July, 2003, vol. 2, pp.441-444.

Godfrey Tan, Allen Miu, John Guttag, and Hari Balakrishnan, An Efficient Scatternet Formation Algorithm for Dynamic Environmnets, Proc. IASTED CCN, Cambridge, MA, November, 2002. [ps, pdf]

Nissanka B. Priyantha, Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Seth Teller, The Cricket Compass for Context-Aware Mobile Applications, Proc. 7th ACM MOBICOM, Rome, Italy, July 2001.

Allen Miu and Paramvir (Victor) Bahl, Dynamic Host Configuration for Managing Mobility Between Public and Private Networks, Proc. 3rd USENIX USITS, San Francisco, CA, March 2001. (Also MSR-TR-2000-85 September 2000.)

Workshop

Kyle Jamieson, Bret Hull, Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Understanding the Real-World Performance of Carrier Sense, Proc. ACM E-WIND, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.

Journal/Articles

Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Can Emre Koksal, Multi-Radio Diversity in Wireless Networks, Springer Journal on Wireless Networks (WINET). To appear.

P. Bahl, A. Balachandran, A. Miu, W. Russell, G. Voelker and Y.M. Wang, PAWNs: Satisfying the Need for Ubiquitous Connectivity and Location Services, IEEE Personal Communications Magazine (PCS), Vol. 6, October 2001.

Thesis

Allen Miu, Improving Packet Delivery Efficiency Using Multi-Radio Diversity in Wireless LANs, PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2006.

Allen Miu, Design and Implementation of an Indoor Mobile Navigation System, SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jan 2002. Winner of a Masterworks Award, May 2002.

Demonstrations:

Data Management in the CarTel Mobile Sensor Computing System. ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2006, Chicago, IL, 2006

A Demonstration of Tracking the Position of a Moving LEGO Traing using the Cricket Indoor Location System. 10th ACM Mobicom, Philadephia, PA, 2004. [ps] [pdf]

Videos:

Oxygen Demo 2005. [mpg (29 MB), wmv (23 MB)]
Tracking a moving train. [mpg (405 MB)]
Location-aware stream migration. [mpg (18 MB)]
Indoor navigation. [mpg (27 MB)]
Centipede: multi-robot chain-forming interaction. [mpg (21 MB)]

Project Collaborators

I'm fortunate to have had the chance to work closely with the following set of amazing people during my course at MIT:

John Ankcorn Nokia Research

John Apostolopoulos HP Labs, Palo Alto

Paramvir (Victor) Bahl Microsoft Research, Redmond

Anand Balachandran Microsoft, Redmond

Prof. Hari Balakrishnan MIT CSAIL

Vladimir Bychkavsky MIT CSAIL

Jon Finegold uLocate Communications, Inc

Michel Goraczko MIT CSAIL

Prof. John Guttag MIT CSAIL

Bret Hull MIT CSAIL

Kyle Jamieson MIT CSAIL

Can Emre Koksal EPFL, Switzerland

Prof. Samuel Madden MIT CSAIL

Nissanka (Bodhi) Priyantha Microsoft Research, Redmond

Adam Smith MIT CSAIL

Dan Tan HP Labs, Palo Alto

Godfrey Tan MIT CSAIL (now at Intel, Santa Clara)

Prof. Seth Teller MIT CSAIL

Mitch Trott HP Labs, Palo Alto

Courses

6.170 Laboratory in Software Engineering (served as Teaching Assistant for this course)

6.821 Programming Languages

6.823 Computer Architecture

6.836 Embodied Intelligence (Class Project)

6.892 Computer Networks (Class Project)

6.856 Randomized Algorithms (Class Project)

6.838J Computational Geometry

(Convex Hull Applet)(BSP Applet)(Duality Applet) (I taught Lecture 7 [ppt][ps][pdf])

15.401 Finance Theory I

15.402 Finance Theory II (Corporate Finance)

15.399 Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab)

Personal

Biography:

I was born in Hong Kong, but was raised in Vancouver, Canada since I was seven. I got married this summer (2006) to my college sweetheart, Jie Zhang and have since return to the west coast. I love badminton.

Activities:

Committee Member and Participant, Boston Open (2002-2005)
MIT Team member, MIT Invitational Team Badminton Tournament 2001
President (2004-), MIT Community Badminton Club
Co-President (2001-2002), Officer-at-large (2003-) MIT Badminton Club

Miscellaneous:

My cousin is a rising pop singer in Hong Kong. Check out her first and second albums!

Photos

Personal Quotations

Norman Lee's website.

Last modified on September 4, 2006