Maria A. Kazandjieva

Welcome!

I am a fifth-year Computer Science PhD student at Stanford University. I am part of the SING lab that tackles wireless networking and systems research questions.

My research interests lie in sensor networks and green computing. Currently, I lead the PowerNet project. PowerNet includes a 200+ node power measurement infrastructure that monitors computing equipment throughout the Gates CS building. We use the collected data to characterize the energy consumption of office-building computing and propose alternative designs that meet workload requirements at a lower energy cost.

Contact

Maria A. Kazandjieva
mariakaz[at]cs[dot]stanford[dot]edu
Gates Computer Science Building, rm. 284
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305

New and Fun

• Read our new tech report that sheds light on the comparative effectiveness on software and hardware solutions to the green IT problem.
• The president of Mount Holyoke College has taken notice of the Summer'10 collaboration with undergrads at my alma mater. Here is to hoping that liberal arts education opens its heart to computer science: What I Learned at MHC this Month
• Watch a video of Maria talking about PowerNet and energy waste in office buildings.
• Play with Powertron, an interactive visualization showing the real-time power draw of 100+ computing devices and the wireless mesh network underneath it all.
• Check out our work on measuring the real-world social network of a high school and how that affects disease spread.

Refereed Publications

1. Marcel Salathé, Maria A. Kazandjieva, Jung Woo Lee, Philip Levis, Marcus W. Feldman, and James H. Jones.
   A High-Resolution Human Contact Network for Infectious Disease Transmission.
   In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), December 13, 2010.
   [WWW] [SUPPL] [PDF]


2. Jung Il Choi, Mayank Jain, Maria A. Kazandjieva, and Philip Levis
   Granting Silence to Avoid Wireless Collisions.
   In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'10).
   [PDF]


3. Maria A. Kazandjieva, Jung Woo Lee, Marcel Salathé, Marcus W. Feldman, James H. Jones, and Philip Levis.
   Experiences in Measuring a Human Contact Network for Epidemiology Research.
   Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Embedded Networked Sensors (HotEmNets'10).
   [PDF] [slides]


4. Maria A. Kazandjieva, Brandon Heller, Philip Levis, and Christos Kozyrakis.
   Energy Dumpster Diving.
   In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Power Aware Computing (HotPower'09).
   [PDF] [6 Citations]


5. Jung Il Choi, Maria A. Kazandjieva, Mayank Jain, and Philip Levis.
   The case for a network protocol isolation layer.
   In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'09).
   [PDF]


6. Yang Chen, Omprakash Gnawali, Maria A. Kazandjieva, Philip Levis, and John Regehr.
   Surviving Sensor Network Software Faults.
   In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP'09).
   [PDF] [15 Citations]


7. Kannan Srinivasan, Maria A. Kazandjieva, Saatvik Agarwal, and Philip Levis.
   The β-factor: Measuring Wireless Link Burstiness.
   In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'08).
   [PDF] [54 Citations]


8. Maria A. Kazandjieva and Margaret Martonosi.
   MARS: Portable Support for Community-Based Research Using Cellular Phones.
   In Proceedings of Workshop on Sensing on Everyday Mobile Phones in Support of Participatory Research (SenSys'07)
   [PDF]

Demos and Posters

1. Maria A. Kazandjieva, Omprakash Gnawali, and Philip Levis.
   Visualizing Sensor Network Data with Powertron.
   Demo in the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Systems (SenSys'10).
   [WWW] [PDF]


2. Maria A. Kazandjieva, Brandon Heller, Philip Levis, and Christos Kozyrakis.
   Identifying Energy Waste through Power and Utilization Monitoring.
   Poster in the Stanford Annual Computer Forum Affiliates Meeting, 2010.
   [PDF]


3. Yang Chen, Omprakash Gnawali, Maria A. Kazandjieva, Philip Levis, and John Regehr.
   Surviving Sensor Network Software Faults.
   Poster in the 22nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'09)
   [PDF]


4. Kannan Srinivasan, Maria A. Kazandjieva, Jung Il Choi, Edward S Kim, Mayank Jain, and Philip Levis.
   SWAT: Fingerprinting Your Wireless Network.
   Demo in ACM SIGCOMM 2009. Demo in IPSN 2009. Demo in Senys 2008
   [WWW]

Technical Reports

1. Maria Kazandjieva, Brandon Heller, Omprakash Gnawali, Wanja Hofer, Philip Levis, and Christos Kozyrakis.
   Software or Hardware: The Future of Green Enterprise Computing.
   Technical Report CSTR 2011-02 7/7/11.
   [PDF]


2. Maria Kazandjieva, Omprakash Gnawali, Brandon Heller, Philip Levis, and Christos Kozyrakis.
   Identifying Energy Waste through Dense Power Sensing and Utilization Monitoring.
   Technical Report CSTR 2010-03 8/25/10.
   [PDF]


3. Maria A. Kazandjieva, Mayank Jain, Kannan Srinivasan, and Philip Levis.
   PRR Is Not Enough.
   Technical Report SING-08-01.
   [PDF]

last update: Jan 2011; loosely based on a design by Nicolas Fafchamps