Contact Info

Pei Zhang
Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
Building 23
Moffett Field, CA 94035
(609) 356 - 2525
peizhang@cmu.edu
Personal Webpage


 


Publications

Professional Publications
Book Chapters
Other Publications
Articles on My Projects

Professional Publications:

Aveek Purohit, Zheng Sun, Memo Salas, Pei Zhang, SensorFly: Controlled-mobile Sensing Platform for Indoor Emergency Response Applications. 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), April 2011.

Heng-Tze, Zheng Sun, Pei Zhang, Imirok: Real-Time Imitative Robotic Arm Control for Home Robot Applications, Ninth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom March 2011.

Pei Zhang and M. Martonosi, CA-TSL: Energy Adaptation for Targeted System Lifetime in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Vol. 9, issue 12, pp. 1794-1808, December 2010

Lin-Shung Huang, Feng-Tso Sun, Pei Zhang, Demo: TouchAble - A Camera-Based Multitouch System, The 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. SenSys November 2010.

Z. Sun, A. Purohit (CMU) Kathleen Yang (Samsung) N. Pattan, D. Siewiorek, A. Smailagic, I. Lane, P. Zhang, VMA: An Inexpensive Indoor Acoustic Sensing Platform for In-home Patient Monitoring, The 8th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. June, 2010.

Aveek Purohit and Pei Zhang. "SensorFly: A Controlled-Mobile Aerial Sensor Network". SenSys 2009. The Seventh ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. Demo Session Nov, 2009. (best demo award)

Omar Abdul Baki, Tony Lin, Martin Griss, Joy Zhang and Pei Zhang. " A Mobile Application to Detect of Abnormal Patterns of Activity". In The First Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE 2009).

Hari, Pradip; Ko, Kevin; Koukoumidis, Emmanouil; Kremer, Ulrich; Martonosi, Margaret; Ottoni, Desiree; Peh, Li-Shiuan; Zhang, Pei. "SARANA: language, compiler and run-time system support for spatially aware and resource-aware mobile computing". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 366, issue 1881, pp. 3699-3708, Oct. 2008.

Pei Zhang and Margaret Martonosi. "LOCALE: Collaborative Localization Estimation for Sparse Mobile Sensor Networks", The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2008), Apr 2008. (pdf)

Vincent Lenders, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Pei Zhang and Margaret Martonosi. "Location-based Trust for Mobile User-Generated Contents: Applications, Challenges and Implementations". The 9th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2008), Feb 2008. (pdf)

Yong Wang, Pei Zhang, Ting Liu, Chris Sadler and Margaret Martonosi. "Movement Data Traces from Princeton ZebraNet Deployments". CRAWDAD Database. http://crawdad.cs.dartmouth.edu/. 2007. 

Trevor Pering, Pei Zhang, Rohit Chaudhri, Yaw Anokwa and Roy Want. "The PSI Board: Realizing a Phone-Centric Body Sensor Network", 4th International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN2007). Mar, 2007. (pdf)

Pei Zhang, Chris Sadler and Margaret Martonosi. "Middleware for Long-term Deployment of Delay-tolerant Sensor Networks", The First International Workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks (MidSens'06). Nov, 2006. (pdf)

Pei Zhang and Margaret Martonosi. "Energy Adaptation Techniques to Optimize Data Delivery in Store-and-Forward Sensor Networks", The Fourth ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. Nov, 2006. (pdf)

Pei Zhang, Christopher M. Sadler, Steve A. Lyon, and Margaret Martonosi. "Hardware Design Experiences in ZebraNet", SenSys 2004. The Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. Nov, 2004. (pdf)

T. Liu, C. Sadler, P. Zhang, and M. Martonosi. "Implementing Software on Resource-Constrained Mobile Sensors: Experiences with Impala and ZebraNet", Mobisys 2004. The Second International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. June, 2004. (pdf)

Pardip Hari, Kevin Ko, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Ulrich Kremer, Margaret Martonosi, Desiree Ottoni, Li Shiuan Peh, Pei Zhang. Sarana: Language, Compiler, and Runtime System Support for Spatially-Aware and Resource-Aware Mobile Computing, under submission.

Book Chapters:

Pei Zhang, Margaret Martonosi. “LOCALE: Collaborative Localization Estimation for Sparse Mobile Sensor Networks”. Chapter in Handbook of Research on Mobile Software Engineering: Design Implementation and Emergent Applications, Paulo S.C. Alencar, Donald Cowan (editors), IGI Global, March 2010.

Pei Zhang, Chris Sadler, Ting Liu, Ilya Fischhoff, Margaret Martonosi, Stephen A. Lyon, Daniel I. Rubenstein. Habitat Monitoring with ZebraNet: Design and Experiences. Chapter in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Systems Perspective, N. Bulusu and S. Jha (editors), Artech House, 2005.

Other Publications:

Pei Zhang. Heart of Africa (Rwanda) Traveler Magazine, November 2007 issue, Traveler Publishing,  ISSN: 1007-0915, November 2007.

Pei Zhang. Cover Photo, The Playbook -- A Monthly Magazine Connection You to the Empire City, Volume 1, Issue 3, The Playbook Publishing Co., November 2007

Articles on My Projects:

SensorFly

“Michio Kaku's Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible”, Discovery’s Science Channel, Sep 2010.

“SensorFly”, Spigot Science Magazine for Kids and Classrooms July 2010.

“Swarm Bots”, BBC Focus Magazine, Mar 2010

“Aerobot Invasion : World’s Newest & Most Spectacular Unmanned Aircraft”, POPULAR SCIENCE, Mar 2010

“Networked surveillance minicopters can't be kept down”, NEW SCIENTIST, Nov 2009

“SensorFly robots hunt in packs and can take a battering”, WIRED, Nov 2009

“Self-righting autonomous swarming robots”, MAKEZINE, Nov 2009

“SensorFly survives racket beatdown”, BOT JUNKIE, Nov 2009

“SensorFly Wins Best Demo at SenSys 2009”, Carnegie Mellon CIT Feature, Nov 2009

“SensorFly for Hazardous Situations”, Carnegie Mellon Homepage Stories, Aug 2009

Endangered zebra life caught on GPS
CNN Technology, Apr 2008, by Elizabeth Landau

A NETWORK OF A DIFFERENT STRIPE:
    --Zebras go wireless on the Kenyan plains
ASEE Prism, Sep 2007, by Boroughs, Don

Wireless Networks and Zebra Movements:
    --Radio Tracking Enters the 21st Century

Mpala Newsletter, Dec 2005, by Dan Rubenstein Margaret Martonosi

Engineers help biologists' dreams come true
    --ZebraNet to collect data bounty

Equad News, April 2003, by Sara Peters