Bret Hull @ MIT

I am a graduating (2010) Ph.D. student studying Computer Science in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Networks and Mobile Systems group. My advisor is Prof. Hari Balakrishnan and my research interests include sensor systems, data mangement, wireless networks, and mobile computing.

• C.V./Resume available on request

• The Pothole Patrol: Using a Mobile Sensor Network for Road Surface Monitoring
  Jakob Eriksson, Lewis Girod, Bret Hull, Ryan Newton, Samuel Madden, Hari Balakrishnan
  In Proc. of ACM MobiSys, Breckenridge, CO, June 2008
  
  
• ICDEDB: Intermittently-Connected Continuous Query Processing
  Yang Zhang, Bret Hull, Hari Balakrishnan , Samuel Madden
  In Proc. of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007
  
  
• CarTel: A Distributed Mobile Sensor Computing System
  Bret Hull, Vladimir Bychkovsky, Yang Zhang, Kevin Chen, Michel Goraczko, Allen Miu, Eugene Shih, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden
  In Proc. of ACM Sensys, Boulder, CO, November 2006
  
  
• A Measurement Study of Vehicular Internet Access Using In Situ Wi-Fi Networks
  Vladimir Bychkovsky, Bret Hull, Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden
  In Proc. of ACM MOBICOM, Los Angeles, CA, September 2006
  
  
• Understanding the Real-World Performance of Carrier Sense
  Kyle Jamieson, Bret Hull, Allen Miu, and Hari Balakrishnan
  In Proc. of ACM E-WIND, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005
  
  
• Mitigating Congestion in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Bret Hull, Kyle Jamieson, and Hari Balakrishnan
  In Proc. of the ACM SenSys, Baltimore, MD, November 2004

• Pothole Patrol - automated road anomaly detection
• ICEDB - an intermittently-connected and embedded database
• CarTel - a mobile, distributed sensor computing system
• Mist - an effort to build and study systems of wireless sensors

• Spring 2005, Teaching Assistant, 6.033 Computer Systems Engineering .

• Some Thoughts On Grad School (by Cal Newport)