Picture of Prasun Sinha Prasun Sinha
Associate Professor

791 Dreese Labs
2015 Neil Avenue
Deptartment of Computer Science and Engineering
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210-1277
phone: 614-292-1531, email: prasun@cse.ohio-state.edu
A more recent "me"

[ Resume] [ Publications] [Teaching (Au '09): 677]
Networking Orientation 2009
What is New?
  • Welcome new students in our group: Dong Li, Tarun Bansal and Yousi Zhang (ECE)
  • An article in the Spring 2009 CSE newsletter on our research on sparse coverage
  • Two papers in Infocom 2009 on sparse notions of coverage: Alpha Coverage and Trap Coverage
  • Lumley Research Award, College of Engineering, Awarded: May 2009
  • I am the TPC chair for QShine 2009 . Link to Publication
    About me
    I graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with my PhD in Computer Science in 2001. I got my MS degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University (1997) and my BTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Delhi, India (1995). Before joining OSU in 2003, I was a researcher at Bell Labs, New Jersey from 2001 to 2003. During my graduate studies I did internships at Almaden Research Center, IBM, San Jose, and HRL Labs, Malibu. I received the Lumley Research Award from the College of Engineering at OSU in 2009, and the NSF CAREER award in 2006. During graduate studies I received the Mavis Memorial Scholarship (2000), Ray Ozzie Fellowship (1999), and the Distinguished Academic Achievement Award (1997).

    Research
    My research focuses on the design of wireless network architectures and protocols, with emphasis on mesh networks, wireless LANs, and sensor networks. I am particularly interested in algorithmic solutions to foundational issues in the design of network solutions, followed by rigorous experimentation on deployed networks and large scale testbeds. In 2004, for the DARPA/NEST sponsored ExScal demonstration held at Avon Park, Florida, my responsibilities included designing network layer solutions for a network of 1000 Mica2/XSM based sensors (world's largest to date) that was supported by a backbone wireless mesh network of 200 Linux based Stargate nodes (also world's largest). My recent contributions are in the following areas:
    1. Scalable Low Power Sensor Networking
    2. Data Streaming over Wireless Networks
    My past (pre-OSU) contributions are as follows:
    1. Ad-hoc Networking: Architecture and Routing Infrastructure
    2. Data Transport over Local Area and Wide-Area Wireless Networks

    Selected Recent Publications in Conferences

    Selected Recent Publications in Journals

    Grants

    Awards and Honors
    Professional Activities
    Research Group and Collaborations
    I lead the Ohio Wireless Infrastructure and Networking (OWIN) research lab. The current students and alumni are as follows:

    Current Students
    Alumni
    Other Graduate Students (OSU students I have co-authored in the past)
    Recent Collaborators
    Note for Prospective Students: I am looking for one or two highly motivated students to join my group immediately with background and/or interest in mathematical techniques and experimental skills. Mathematical topics of particular relevance to my research include approximation algorithms, combinatorics, graph theory, probability, optimization etc. Experimental knowledge in the areas of TinyOS, 802.11, Linux kernel programming, and mesh networks is preferred.
    Teaching
    Past and current courses are listed below:
    Consulting
    I am open to exploring options for consulting broadly on issues related to embedded systems and networking.
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