Computer Laboratory

Kiran Rachuri

I am a Researcher in the Network and Operating Systems group at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. My supervisor is Dr. Cecilia Mascolo and I am working on energy efficiency aspects of mobile phone based sensing systems. I am a Gates Cambridge Scholar and a member of St. John's College.

Research Interests

  • Mobile phone based sensing systems
  • Mobile phone based platforms for conducting social psychology research
  • Energy-accuracy trade-offs of adaptive sampling, and computation
    offloading in continuous sensing systems
  • Query processing in wireless sensor networks

Selected Publications

  • N. Lathia, K. K. Rachuri, C. Mascolo, and P. J. Rentfrow, Contextual Dissonance: Design Bias in Sensor-Based Experience Sampling Methods, ACM UbiComp 2013, Zurich, Switzerland, 2013.

  • N. Lathia, V. Pejovic, K. K. Rachuri, C. Mascolo, M. Musolesi, and P. J. Rentfrow, Smartphones for Large-scale Behaviour Change Interventions, in IEEE Pervasive Computing, Special Issue on Understanding and Changing Behavior, To Appear, 2013.

  • K. K. Rachuri, C. Efstratiou, I. Leontiadis, C. Mascolo, and P. J. Rentfrow, METIS: Exploring mobile phone sensing offloading for efficiently supporting social sensing applications, IEEE PerCom '13, San Diego, USA, 2013.

    • Mark Weiser Best Paper Award

  • C. Efstratiou, I. Leontiadis, M. Picone, K. K. Rachuri, C. Mascolo, and J. Crowcroft, Sense and Sensibility in a Pervasive World, Pervasive '12, Newcastle, UK, 2012.

  • K. K. Rachuri, C. Mascolo, and M. Musolesi, Energy-Accuracy Trade-offs of Sensor Sampling in Smart Phone based Sensing Systems, Mobile Context Awareness, Book Chapter, Springer, 2012.

  • K. K. Rachuri, C. Mascolo, M. Musolesi, and P. J. Rentfrow, SociableSense: Exploring the Trade-offs of Adaptive Sampling and Computation Offloading for Social Sensing, ACM MobiCom '11, Las Vegas, USA, 2011.

  • K. K. Rachuri, and C. Mascolo, Smart Phone based Systems for Social Psychological Research: Challenges and Design Guidelines, ACM S3 Workshop '11, Las Vegas, USA, 2011.

  • K. K. Rachuri, M. Musolesi, C. Mascolo, P. J. Rentfrow, C. Longworth, and A. Aucinas, EmotionSense: A Mobile Phones based Adaptive Platform for Experimental Social Psychology Research, ACM UbiComp '10, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010.

    • Media coverage: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/emotionsense/index_prev.html#mediacoverage

  • K. K. Rachuri, M. Musolesi, C. Mascolo, Energy-Accuracy Trade-offs in Querying Sensor Data for Continuous Sensing Mobile Systems, Mobile Context Awareness Workshop '10 (co-located with UbiComp 2010). Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010.

  • K. K. Rachuri, and C. S. R. Murthy, On the Scalability of Expanding Ring Search for Dense Wireless Sensor Networks, Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier JPDC), 2010.

  • K. K. Rachuri and C. S. R. Murthy, Energy Efficient and Scalable Search in Dense Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Computers (IEEE TC), 2009.

  • K. K. Rachuri and C. S. R. Murthy, Energy Efficient Search in Sensor Networks using Simple Random Walks with Level Biased Steps, IEEE WWASN '09 (co-located with IEEE ICDCS), Montreal, Canada, 2009.

  • K. K. Rachuri, A. A. Franklin, and C. S. R. Murthy, Energy Efficient Searching in Delay-Tolerant Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM HeterSanet '08 (co-located with ACM MobiHoc 2008), Hong Kong, SAR, China, 2008.