Chenyang Lu

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis

Office: Bryan Hall 504
E-mail: lu (at) cse (dot) wustl (dot) edu
Phone: (314) 935-4855

• AMIA'09 paper: Reliable Real-time Clinical Monitoring Using Sensor Network Technology.

• CONet Distinguished Visitor Talk on Distributed Structural Health Monitoring at SICS.

• IM'09 Tutorial: Recent Advances in the Application of Control Theory to Network and Service Management.

• MLA (MAC Layer Architecture) upgraded for TinyOS 2.1.

• Serving as Track Chair on Sensor Networks for RTSS'09.

• Serving on Executive Committee of IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems as Chair of Relations Sub-Committee.

• Coordination'09 paper on service provisioning in wireless sensor networks.

• RTAS'09 paper on adaptive failover in real-time middleware.

• Special Issue: From Embedded Systems to Cooperating-Objects of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.

• RTSS'08 papers on wireless structural health monitoring and sensor deployment.

• Served on the steering committee of NSF Bridge Workshop.

• SenSys'08 paper on robust topology control.

• Served as General Co-Chair of RTAS'09, part of the 2nd Cyber-Physical Systems Week.

• SIGMETRICS tutorial and book chapter on feedback control theory for computing systems.

Teaching

• CSE 521S Wireless Sensor Networks, Fall 2008.

• CSE 467S Embedded Computing Systems, Every Spring.

• CSE 520S Real-Time Systems, Fall 2009.

• CSE 730x Research Seminar on Distributed Systems Design, Every Semester.

• Dragon Star Lecture: Wireless Sensor Networks, May 2008.

Current

• Distributed Structural Health Monitoring with Wireless Sensor Networks

• Wireless Sensor Network Technology for Clinical Monitoring (NIH ICTS)

• Unified and Configurable Power Management for Wireless Sensor Networks (NSF NeTS-NOSS)

• Adaptive QoS Control in Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems (NSF CAREER)

• Wireless Sensor Networks Testbed (NSF CRI)

• Configurable Cyberphysical Instrument for Real-time Hybrid Testing (NSF MRI)

• Fluid Software Infrastructure for Wireless Sensor Networks (NSF NeTS-NOSS)

Completed

• Spatiotemporal Protocols and Analysis in Wireless Sensor Network (NSF ITR)

• Adaptive Resource Control for Certifiable Systems (DARPA ARMS)

Papers

Graduate Students

Current

• Octav Chipara (PhD, with Catalin Roman): Real-time Wireless Sensor Networks.
• Chien-Liang Fok (PhD, with Catalin Roman): Flexible Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks.
• Yong Fu (PhD): Adaptive QoS Control.
• Greg Hackmann (PhD): Unified Power Management Architecture.
• Abu Sayeed Saifullah (PhD)
• Mo Sha (PhD)
  
• Chengjie Wu (PhD, with Catalin Roman)
• Weijun Guo (MS): Structural Health Monitoring.

• Sangeeta Bhattacharya (PhD 2008, with Catalin Roman): Research Engineer, Intel Systems Research Center (Bangalore).
• Yuanfang Zhang (PhD 2008, with Chris Gill): Developer, Microsoft Research (Redmond).
• Xiaorui Wang (PhD 2006): Assistant professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
• Guoliang Xing (PhD 2006): Assistant professor, Michigan State University.
• Qingfeng Huang (PhD 2003, with Catalin Roman): Start up (formerly with Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
• Fei Sun (MS, 2008)
• Yingming Chen (MS, 2007)
• Kevin Klues (MS, 2007)

Awards

• NSF CAREER Award, 2005.
• Best Paper Award, International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), June 2006.
• Nominations for Best Paper Award (two papers), International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 2005.
• Nomination for Best Paper Award, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), May 2003.
• Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, 2000.
  
  

Professional Service

Editorial Boards and Special Issues

• Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 2007 - present.

• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Special Issue on From Embedded Systems to Cooperating-Objects, 2009. new!

• Guest Editor, Real-Time Systems, Special Issue on Real-Time Wireless Sensor Networks, 2007.

• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), 2006 - present.

Steering and Executive Committees

• Executive Committee Member (Relations Sub-Committee Chair), IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems, 2009 - present. new!

• Steering Committee Member, NSF Bridge Condition Monitoring and  Prognostication Workshop, 2008. new!

• Steering Committee Member, International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FeBID), 2008 - present.

Conference Organization

• Program Vice Chair for the Systems and Applications Track, IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2010. new!

• Chair, PhD Forum on Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2009. new!

• Track Chair of Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2007, 2009. new!

• General Chair, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2009. new!

• Publication Chair, International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), 2009. new!

• Publicity Chair, European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), 2009. 

• Program Chair, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2008.

• Program Chair, IEEE Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FeBID), 2007.

• General Chair, International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-time Systems (WPDRTS), 2007.

• Work-in-Progress Chair, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2007.

• Web Chair, ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2007.

• Program Chair, International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-time Systems (WPDRTS), 2006.

• Demo Chair, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2005.

• Publicity Chair, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2004.

• Publicity Chair, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2004.  

Technical Program Committees

• ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2005, 2006, 2010.

• INFOCOM, 2008 - 2010.

• International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2005 - 2010.

• IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), 2009, 2010.

• International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FeBID), 2006, 2008, 2010.

• IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC), 2010.

• IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2005 - 2007, 2009.

• International Conference On Principles Of DIstributed Systems (OPODIS), 2009.

• International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS), 2009.

• International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS), 2008, 2009.

• International Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN), 2009.

• ACM International Workshop on Medical-Grade Wireless Networks (WiMD), 2009.

• European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), 2007, 2008.

• IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2008.

• International Workshop on Mobile Device and Urban Sensing (MODUS), 2008.

• ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2007.

• IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2003 - 2007. 

• International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Network Architecture (WWSNA), 2007.

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2007.

• IEEE International Symposium on Object-oriented Real-time Computing (ISORC), 2007.

• International Workshop on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks (WTASA), 2007.

• First International Workshop on Agent Technology for Sensor Networks (ATSN), 2007.

• IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2003 - 2006.

• International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2006.

• International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (MobiQuitous), 2005, 2006.

• IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2006.

• International Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (REALWSN), 2006.

• IEEE WirelessCom: Symposium on Wireless Sensor Networks, 2005.

• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2003, 2004.