Ardalan Amiri Sani

Email: ardalan at rice dot edu

Phone: 281 854 5007

Office: Duncan Hall room #3040

About Me

I am a PhD student in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. I am part of Rice Efficient Computing Group, and my advisor is Prof. Lin Zhong. I received my B.Sc. degree in 2008 from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, and received my M.Sc. degree in 2011 from Rice University.

Research Interests

• Virtualization

• Mobile computing

• Wireless system design

Projects

• Devirtualization: Making I/O virtualization easy with device files

• Understanding the data usage of applications in smartphones (Try our Android app)

• Theia: Opportunistic and real-time search of crowd-sourced smartphone data (Try Theia)

• Directional communication for mobile devices

Research News

• I am a co-chair of ACM S3 2013 Workshop.

• I am a student committee member in ACM S3 2012 Workshop.

• I am a TPC member in ACM MobiSys 2012 Ph.D. Forum.

• Our work on "opportunistic content search of smartphone photos" is covered by The New York Times, Slashdot, Technology Review, I-Programmer, and others.

• I am currently an intern in Microsoft Research in Redmond (Summer 2011).

• I am a student committee member in ACM S3 2011 Workshop.

• Our work on "directional communication on mobile devices" is covered by Technology Review, PCWorld, Computer Scotland, ECN, TNW, and others.

Publications

• Ardalan Amiri Sani, Sreekumar Nair, Lin Zhong, Quinn Jacobson, "Making I/O virtualization easy with device files," Technical Report 2013-04-13, Rice University, April 2013. (arXiv)

• Hang Yu, Ahmad Rahmati, Ardalan Amiri Sani, Lin Zhong, Jehan Wickramasuriya and Venu Vasudevan, "Data broadcasting using mobile FM radio: design, realization and application," to appear in ACM Int. Conf. Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), September 2011.

• Ardalan Amiri Sani, Wolfgang Richter, Xuan Bao, Trevor Narayan, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Lin Zhong, Romit Roy Choudhury, "Opportunistic Content Search of Smartphone Photos," Technical Report TR0627-2011, Rice University, June 2011. (arXiv)

• Xuan Bao, Trevor Narayan, Ardalan Amiri Sani, Wolfgang Richter, Romit Roy Choudhury, Lin Zhong, and Mahadev Satyanarayanan, "The Case for Context-Aware Compression," in Proc. ACM HotMobile, March 2011. (PDF)

• Ardalan Amiri Sani, Lin Zhong, and Ashutosh Sabharwal, "Directional antenna diversity for mobile devices: characterizations and solutions," in Proc. ACM MobiCom, September 2010. (PDF)

• Ardalan Amiri Sani, Hasan Dumanli, Lin Zhong, and Ashutosh Sabharwal, "Power-efficient directional wireless communication on small form-factor mobile devices," in Proc. ACM/IEEE Int. Symp. Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), August 2010. (PDF)

• Hasan Dumanli, Ardalan Amiri Sani, Lin Zhong, and Ashutosh Sabharwal, "BeamSwitch: system solution for energy-efficient directional communication on mobile devices," Technical Report 0616-09, Rice University, June 2009.

• Stephen So, Ardalan Amiri Sani, Lin Zhong, Frank Tittel ,and Gerard Wysocki, "Laser spectroscopic trace-gas sensor networks for atmospheric monitoring applications," in Proc. IPSN Wrkshp. Sensor Networks for Earth and Space Science Applications (ESSA), April 2009.

Selected Posters

• Ardalan Amiri Sani, Sreekumar Nair, Kevin A. Boos, Lin Zhong, Quinn Jacobson, "Devirtualization: I/O Virtualization Based on Device Files," in USENIX OSDI, October 2012.

Patents

• Lin Zhong, Hasan Dumanli, Ashutosh Sabharwal, Ardalan Amiri Sani, "Directional Communication on Mobile Device", under review for US Patent (Patent Application Tech Id. 2009-44;17500/004001).

Downloads

• HTC G1 kinetic sensor data traces (11 users, each one week)(2.2GB, used in Mobicom 2010 paper "Directional antenna diversity for mobile devices: characterizations and solutions")(released September 2010)

Graduate Courses

• Computer System Architecture

• Mobile and Wireless Networking

• Design and Analysis of Algorithms

• Energy Efficiency in Modern Systems

• Convex Optimization

• Information Theory

• Error Correcting Codes

• Computer Vision

• Parallel Computing