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Associate Professor Philip Levis
Office: 412 Gates Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305
Office hours: By appointment
Phone: +1 650 725 9046
email: pal at cs stanford edu, but I receive more email than I can handle. Please don't be offended if I don't reply.
Biography
I'm an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering Departments of Stanford University. I research the design
and implementation of computing platforms that integrate computers and the
physical world. I especially enjoy researching emerging and futuristic
systems, such as low-power wireless sensor networks, full duplex wireless, and
three-dimensional virtual worlds.
I adore excellent engineering and have a self-destructive aversion to
low-hanging fruit.
I head the Stanford Information Networking
Group (SING), whose members only sometimes put up with me. I'm
currently on partial leave at
Kumu Networks; I spend half of
my time at Stanford and half of my time at Kumu.
Education and Job Opportunties in STEM, 2008
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Advisees, Past and Present (Ph.D.)
- Kannan Srinivasan: quantifying wireless networks (EE 2010), now at Ohio State
- Jung Woo Lee: mesh routing to a mobile node (EE 2010), now at Marvell Technology Group
- Jung Il Choi: network protocol isolation (EE 2011), now a startup co-founder
- Mayank Jain: wireless physical/link boundary (EE 2011), now a startup co-founder
- Ewen Cheslack-Postava: planetary-scale virtual worlds (CS)
- Maria Kazandjieva: designing a green IT infrastructure (CS)
- Tahir Azim: geometric services for virtual worlds (CS)
- Behram Mistree: virtual world scripting (EE)
Advisees, Past and Present (M.S.)
- Bhupesh Chandra: virtual world scripting (CS)
- Arjun Roy: mobile phone operating systems (CS)
Selected Publications (full list)
You can generally find more up-to-date and detailed information
on the SING website.
- Ewen Cheslack-Postava, Tahir Azim, Behram F. T. Mistree, Daniel Reiter Horn, Jeff Terrace, Philip Levis, and Michael J. Freedman.
A Scalable Server for 3D Metaverses.
In Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC '12).
- Mayank Jain, Jung Il Choi, Taemin Kim, Dinesh Bharadia, Siddharth Seth, Kannan Srinivasan, Philip Levis, Sachin Katti and Prasun Sinha.
Practical, Real-time, Full-Duplex Wireless.
In Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom 2011).
- Arjun Roy, Stephen M. Rumble, Ryan Stutsman, Philip Levis, David Mazières, and Nickolai Zeldovich.
Energy Management in Mobile Devices with the Cinder Operating System.
In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2011).
- Omprakash Gnawali, Rodrigo Fonseca, Kyle Jamieson, David Moss, and Philip Levis.
Collection Tree Protocol. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2009.
- Yang Chen, Omprakash Gnawali, Maria Kazandjieva, Philip Levis, and John Regehr.
Surviving Sensor Network Software Faults. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP), 2009.
- Philip Levis, Neil Patel, David Culler, and Scott Shenker
Trickle: A Self-Regulating Algorithm for Code Propagation and Maintenance in Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the First USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2004). Received best paper award.
TinyOS Programming Manual
I've recently written a short book on programming TinyOS. Unlike the tutorials,
which are a brief introduction to get you started, or TEPs, which describe
parts of TinyOS 2.0, Programming TinyOS digs into nesC and how you can use it to build TinyOS applications.
Except for a few fictional components in the beginning, almost every concept
has a TinyOS 2.0 implementation as an example. A second version of the text,
co-written with David Gay, is available for purchase as of April 2009. We tried to keep the cost
down by making it softcover and having very tiny royalties. Unfortunately,
though, TinyOS programming is not a blockbuster topic, so the book is
a bit pricier than I'd like. Oh well. You can download the
first half of the published version for free. The first half covers the basics: this
version does not include advanced topics like asynchronous code, writing generics, or
the hardware abstraction architecture.
Some Talks
- "Evaluating Green Computing Techniques with Dense, Long-term Power Sensing."
CS Faculty Lunch, November 30, 2010.
- "Wireless Routing."
CS Faculty Lunch, February 16, 2010.
These are a variant that are intended to be standalone; the talk slides did not include explanatory text.
- "Towards a Wireless Lexicon."
Bertinoro Wireless Workshop, Aug. 20, 2007.
- "Low-Power Sensor Networks: A Case Study in Seeking Distributed Dependability."
Keynote at NSF HCCS-CPS Workshop, Nov. 30, 2006.
- "IP and Low-Power Wireless: Madness, the Future, or Both?"
HotNets V, Nov. 29, 2006.
- "T2: What the Second Generation Holds"
CS294-11, Berkeley, 6 October 2005.
- "The Internet vs. Sensor Nets."
ICSI, 5 May 2004.
Program Committees and Editorial Boards
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NSDI, SOSP
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CCR,
SenSys
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2011: |
CCR,
IP+SN,
MobiSys,
HotPower,
SOSP,
SenSys (co-chair)
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| 2010: |
TOSN,
CCR,
NSDI,
MobiSys,
DMSN
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2009: |
TOSN,
IPSN (co-chair, IP track),
SenSys,
SOSP,
HotPower (co-chair)
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| 2008: |
TOSN,
MODUS,
IPSN,
ICDCS,
NSDR,
SIGCOMM,
OSDI
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| 2007: |
IPSN,
EmNets (co-chair),
SIGCOMM,
DMSN,
SenSys,
MidSens
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| 2006: |
NetDB,
IPSN,
DCOSS,
SenSys,
RTSS
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Quote
"Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent."
- Herbert Simon, Sciences of the Artificial
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