current

  • PowerNet
    • Ever wondered how much energy goes into maintaining the computing infrastructure of your department? We do, and we want to know how much electricity goes where and why. In the next few months we will begin gathering data from every computing device in the building (computers, monitors, printers, servers, switches..). Part of this data will come from off-the-shelf power meters, the rest will come from a dense ad-hoc wireless network of in-house power meters. Yup, we built our own and equipped it with an MSP430 for radio communication. Stay tuned for more news on this one!
  • SWAT:
    • The Stanford Wireless Analysis Tool will provide users with an easy way to measure low-level network characteristics and distill the information into useful metrics. The visualization of data is an important aspect. SWAT will enable deeper understanding of protocol performance; it will give insight into the network conditions under which a protocol was measured. Currently, the metrics we provide include RSSI variations, spacial and temporal correlations of packet reception, and link asymmetries.

about

I am currently at Stanford University's Computer Science Department working under Prof. Phil Levis in the SING research group.

My research interests include low-power wireless mesh networks, as well as energy-efficiency on small and large scales.

I completed my undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Mt. Holyoke College in December 2006, after working with Prof. Sami Rollins. From February to July 2007 I worked with Prof. Margaret Martonosi at Princeton University's Electrical Engineering Department as a research assistant.

publications


Kannan Srinivasan, Maria A. Kazandjieva, Saatvik Agarwal, and Philip Levis. The β-factor: Quantifying Wireless Link Burstiness. In SenSys ’08: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems, Raleigh, NC, USA, 2008. ACM Press.

Maria A. Kazandjieva and Margaret Martonosi. MARS: Portable Support for Community-Based Research Using Cellular Phones. Workshop on Sensing on Everyday Mobile Phones in Support of Participatory Research (SenSys'07). Sydney, Australia. November  6 -9, 2007.


demos & posters

Kannan Srinivasan, Maria Kazandjieva, Mayank Jain, Eddie Kim, and Phil Levis. SWAT: Enabling Wireless Network Measurements. Demonstration. SenSys 2008. Nov 5 - 7. Raleigh, NC.

Maria A. Kazandjieva and Margaret Martonosi. Lightweight Economic Models for Resource Sharing in Wireless Networks. Poster in ACM SIGCSE 2007 Student Research Competition, March 2007. Second Place Award in ACM Grand Finals Undergraduate Category.

Denitsa Tilkidjieva, Nilanjan Banerjee, Maria A. Kazandjieva, Sami Rollins, Mark D. Corner. LLAMA : An Adaptive Strategy for Performing Background Tasks on Mobile Devices. Poster in 7th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA 2006).


technical reports

Maria A. Kazandjieva, Mayank Jain, Kannan Srinivasan, and Philip Levis. PRR Is Not Enough. Technical Report SING-07-01.

Kannan Srinivasan, Maria Kazandjieva, Saatvik Agarwal, and Philip Levis. The β-factor: Improving Bimodal Wireless Networks. Technical Report SING-07-01.

Denitsa Tilkidjieva, Nilanjan Banerjee, Maria A. Kazandjieva, Sami Rollins and Mark D. Corner, LLAMA: An Adaptive Strategy for Utilizing Excess Energy to Perform Background Tasks on Mobile Devices Technical Report 06-44. University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA. January, 2006.


---------------------------------------------------------------------------

more:

At Princeton, I was involved with the SARANA Project. SARANA (Spatially Aware, Resource Aware Network Architecture) examines how the nature of computing changes as all devices become mobile and we want to leverage the existing computing infrastructure to run large scale, spatially aware applications. As part of my work there, I've spent a lot of time programming smartphones and looking into interoperability issues in this constrained mobile domain.

During my summer at Princeton in 2006, I explored economic models for resource sharing in wireless networks. I examined how pricing of resources affects their distribution and how those prices need to be adjusted. This work was presented in part at the ACM Student Research Competition(SRC) at SIGCSE'07 and later received Second Place Award at the SRC Grand Finals. The award was presented at the ACM Award Banquet held in San Diego in June 2007.

Most of my earlier work has been sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) and their Distributed Mentor Project (DMP). I strongly believe that we have a responsibility to introduce young women to Computer Science and Engineering and create role models for them. I hope to continue my efforts in that direction during my study at Stanford, as a co-president of the Women in Computer Science (WICS) group.

Outside of work, I am passionate about music & art, animals, flowers, space/astrophysics, and a few other random things. I listen to a lot of alternative rock, electronica, and classical. I am very easily amused by all kinds of animals including llamas, large cats, cows. I am a member of the World Wildlife Fund and the National Wildlife Federation. I love traveling but try not to screw up my carbon footprint.