Apoorva Jindal


Research Fellow
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Michigan.
EECS 4227, 1301 Beal Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
Electronic Mail: apoorvaj@umich.edu





Brief Bio
I am currently looking for open positions in both academia and industry. Please find my application materials here.
I am a Research Fellow at the University of Michigan with Prof. Mingyan Liu. I completed my PhD from the University of Southern California in May 2009. My research primarily focusses on protocol design and performance analysis of wireless networks, including mesh networks, vehicular networks and sensing systems.


News
  • Our work on Networked Computing in Wireless Sensing Systems was presented by Prof. Mingyan Liu at the NSF Workshop on Future Directions in Networked Sensing Systems: Fundamentals and Applications.
  • Our paper Neighborhood-centric Congestion Control for Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks has been accepted pending revisions at IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
  • Our paper Making the Case for Random Access Scheduling in Wireless Multi-hop Networks has been accepted to appear at the IEEE Infocom (mini-conference), 2010.
  • Our paper Achievable Rate Region of Wireless Multi-hop Networks with 802.11 Scheduling has been published at IEEE/ACM Transctions on Networking, Volume 17, Number 4, August 2009.
  • I will be joining Prof. Mingyan Liu's research group at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor as a Research Fellow.
  • I have succesfully defended and submitted my PhD thesis in February 2009.
  • Our paper Contention-Aware Performance Analysis of Mobility-Assisted Routing has been published at IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume 8, Number 2, February 2009.
  • I was an invited speaker at the ITA graduation day, January 2009. ( Slides )


  • Research Projects
    I have worked on a variety of research projects varying from theoretical works on deriving fundamental performance limits and modeling to pure systems like implementing rate control schemes for wireless mesh networks and developing location based services for cellphones.
    1. Dissertation - Random Access is Good Enough to Build Wireless Multi-Hop Networks.
      We formally show that it is possible to achieve the same degree of performance with IEEE 802.11 in multi-hop networks as the state-of-the-art approximations to optimal scheduling.
    2. Distributed Networked Computing over Wireless.
      We address the challenge of fully-automated distributed in-network computing where complex network-wide computational tasks are accomplished over a network of individually resource limited wireless nodes to facilitate real-time diagnosis and control.
    3. Contention-Aware Performance Analysis of Mobility-Assisted Routing Schemes for Delay Tolerant Networks.
      We derive expressions for the expected delay of different routing schemes proposed for Delay Tolerant Networks, and use the analysis to answer several pertinent questions related to near-optimal routing in DTNs.
    4. Modeling spatially-correlated sensor network data.
      We propose a Markovian model to capture spatial correlation in sensor network data, and verify it using real traces. Download Tools
    5. Building Location-based Services for Cellphones while Respecting User Privacy.
      Unlike prior works to maintain privacy which tradeoff privacy and application quality, we explored an orthogonal tradeoff between privacy and resource usage.
    6. Structure of the Mobile Web.
      We perform a statistical analysis of Mobile Web Data to understand its structural properties.



    Vita etc
    Curriculum Vitæ/Résumé: PDF


    Selected Publications

    Teaching Teaching Assistant for
    • Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005
      EE465: Probabilistic methods in computer systems modeling.
    • Summer 2005
      EE450: Introduction to Computer Networks.
    • Spring 2006
      EE650: Advanced Topics in Computer Networks: Applications of Optimization Theory in Wired and Wireless Networks.


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