Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez

Qualcomm Innovation Fellow, 2012-2013

Short Bio:

I have been a PhD student in the Computer Laboratory, at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Jon Crowcroft since January 2009. In 2012, I was awarded with a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. I am a member of the Networks and Operating Systems group, which is a subdivision of the Systems Research Group, and member of Fitzwilliam College, in which I was an active member of the graduate community holding different possitions in the MCR committe between 2010 and 2012. My research is mainly focused on ErdOS; an energy-aware social operating system but I also keep my nose on Signpost project.

I obtained a B.S./M.S. in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in 2007. My M.S. Thesis was completed at the University of Cambridge as a visitor student working on Haggle Project (August 2006-February 2007), also under the supervision of Professor Jon Crowcroft. My work in Haggle was awarded with Honors Mentions by the University of Oviedo.

After graduating in 2007, I moved to Barcelona as an intern in Telefonica Internet Research Group with Dr. Pablo Rodriguez where I was working on IPTV performance on WiFi and Multipath Video Streaming for 10 months. After that experience, I joined Vodafone R&D (UK) with David Pollington in the Devices Team working on Intelligent Services design.

I also completed an internship at Deutsche Telekom Labs, TU-Berlin, with Dr. Pan Hui. Between July 2011 and September 2011, I also completed a second internship at Telefonica Research with Dina Papagiannaki and Yan Grunenberger.

Short Resume (extended version on request)

Research Interests:

• Distributed and Mobile Systems.
• Resources Sharing.
• Energy Efficiency.
• Wireless/Cellular Networks.
• Mobile Platforms and Applications
• Mobile Operating Systems Design.

Ongoing projects: ErdOS and Signpost projects.

Publications:

• Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Christos Efstratiou, Geoffrey Xie and Jon Crowcroft "Enabling Opportunistic Resources Sharing on Mobile Operating Systems: Benefits and Challenges", In ACM S3 Workshop 2011 (collocated with Mobicom 2011), Las Vegas, September, 2011. [PDF]
• Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez and Jon Crowcroft "ErdOS: Achieving energy savings in mobile OS", In ACM MobiArch 2011, Washington D.C., June, 2011. [PDF], [BibTex]
• Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Pan Hui, Jon Crowcroft and Andrew Rice "Exhausting Battery Statistics", In Proceeding Mobiheld 2010, In conjunction with the 2010 ACM SIGCOMM, New Delhi, August, 2010.[PDF], [Slides], [BibTex]
• Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Pan Hui and Jon Crowcroft, "Has anyone seen my Goose? - Social Network Services in Developing Regions (Invited Paper)", In Proceeding IEEE Workshop on Social Mobile Web (SMW'09), In conjunction with the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, Vancouver, August, 2009.[PDF][BibTex]

Journals and Book Chapters:

• Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez and Jon Crowcroft, "Energy Management Techniques in Modern Mobile Devices", In IEEE Communications Tutorials and Surveys, 2012. [PDF], [BibTex]
• Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez and Jon Crowcroft, "The Case for Context-Aware Resources Management in Mobile Operating Systems", Mobile Context Awareness, pages 97-113, Springer London, 2012. [BibTex]

Demos and Posters:

• Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez and Jon Crowcroft, "Erdos: An energy-aware social operating system for mobile handsets", In OSDI'10, Vancouver, Canada, October 2010 [ABSTRACT], [PDF]
• Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Pan Hui and Jon Crowcroft, "Goose: social network services for developing regions and rural areas"(DEMO), In Proceeding ACM SIGCOMM, Barcelona, August, 2009.[ABSTRACT]

Talks:

• Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Talk. "ErdOS: Towards Opportunistic Social Computing". Cambridge, May 2012.[Slides]
• UBC Systems Research Group. "ErdOS: Enabling opportunistic resources sharing in mobile Operating Systems". Vancouver, October 2010.[Slides]

Teaching:

I am a supervisor in the Computer Laboratory since October 2009. I have supervised:

• 2011/12: "Principles of Communication" (Part II). Lent Term.
• 2010/11: "Principles of Communication" (Part II). Lent Term.
• 2009/10: "Advanced Systems Topics" (Part II). Michaelmas Term.
• 2009/10: "Digital Communications II" (Part II). Lent Term.

Do not hesitate to contact me if you are looking for a Part II project on the area of mobile computing, mobile applications, energy efficiency, collaborative applications, sensors and mobile systems.