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 & posters
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.
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. sing-08-01.pdf. 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.
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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.
