Update:

In 2009, I am joining Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto as a Member of Research Staff.

About Me

Previously, I was a Ph.D candidate and Research Assistant in the Mobile and Pervasive Computing Laboratory at the University of Florida. My advisor is Dr. Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal. Under his guidance, I conduct basic research in the area of sensor networks. My specific areas of interest are:

• Middleware enabling Plug-and-Play deployment of Ubiquitous Embedded Devices such as Wireless Sensors and Actuators in Enterprise and Home Environments.
• Sensor Networks utilizing Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).
• Service Oriented Device Architectures (SODA).
• Query and Event Processing in Sensor Networks.
• Virtual Sensors and Middleware enabling Sensor Fusion.
• Phenomena Detection and Tracking using Sensor Networks.

Despite the rigours of Ph.D research, I try to have a life outside work! In my free time I regularly work out at the gym and I make miniature scale models of aircraft, ships and automobiles. My models have been featured in the Aircraft Resource Center and at Bharat-Rakshak.com (a consortium of websites on the Indian Armed forces).

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Research

As part of my research work at the Pervasive Computing Laboratory, I have worked on a number of real-world projects both in academia and in collaboration with industry. I firmly believe that the true success of any engineering research work can only be judged by its validation through implementation and its utility in practical applications. Some of the research projects I have made major contributions to are listed below. For a more complete and detailed description of my research experience, please refer to my CV.

• Project STEPSTONE (collaboration with IBM) [IBM Press Release] [Demo Video]
• Collaboration with GE Research (Asset Intelligence) to enable rapid onsite customization of sensor deployments in Cold chain tractor trailers
• Gator Tech Smart House [NBC News Video]
• Atlas Platform Initiative - A Plug-and-Play Service Oriented Sensor and Actuator Platform
• Sensable - Scalable Query Processing in Service Oriented Sensor Networks

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Professional

I am one of the co-founders of Pervasa Inc. It was co-founded by Dr.Helal and a bunch of us guys from the lab. Pervasa is a University of Florida sponsored startup focusing on commercial applications of the Atlas Platform. Pervasa aims at providing products which utilize service-oriented architectures (SOA) to seamlessly integrate heterogeneous sensor and actuator networks into distributed enterprise systems, without requiring technical expertise in embedded systems programming and hardware development. Pervasa won the Best of Sensors Expo Silver award in 2007.

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Patents

• Modular Platform Enabling Heterogeneous Devices, Sensors and Actuators to Integrate Automatically Into Heterogeneous Networks, published October 2007 (USPTO Link).

Publications

Under Review

• R. Bose, A. Helal, Sensor-aware Adaptive Pull-Push Query Processing for Sensor Networks, submitted to 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2008. [draft-pdf]
• R. Bose, A. Helal, Distributed Localized Detection and Tracking of Phenomena Clouds using Wireless Sensor Networks, submitted to the 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2008.

Published/Accepted for Publication

Book Chapters

• R. Bose, H. Yang, A. Helal, J. Xia, C. Chang, Fault-resilient Pervasive Service Composition, Advanced Intelligent Environments, H. Hagras, Editor, Springer Verlag. To appear 2008. [preprint available on request]
• A. Helal, J. King, R. Bose, H. El-Zabadani, Y. Kaddourah, Assistive Environments for Successful Aging, Advanced Intelligent Environments, H. Hagras, Editor, Springer Verlag. To appear 2008. [preprint available on request]
• A. Helal, S. Lim, R. Bose, H. Yang, H. Kim, Y. Cho, Experience of Enhancing the Space Sensing of Networked Robots Using Atlas Service-Oriented Architecture, Computer-Human Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 5068:1-10, Springer Verlag, 2008. [link]

Refereed Conference Papers

• R. Bose, A. Helal, Distributed Mechanisms for Enabling Virtual Sensors in Service Oriented Intelligent Environments, Proceedings of 4th IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE '08), Seattle, July 2008. [pdf]
• R. Bose, A. Helal, Observing Walking Behavior of Humans using Distributed Phenomenon Detection and Tracking Mechanisms, Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Practical Applications of Sensor Networks, held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), Turku (Finland), 2008. [pdf]
• A. Helal, J. King, H. El-Zabadani, R. Bose, H. Yang, From Hacking to Programming: Lessons Learned in Creating Assistive Environments for the Elderly, Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management, Dubai, March 2008. [pdf]
• H. Kim, A. Helal, H. Yang, R. Bose, Enhancing sentience of URC using Atlas Service-Oriented Architecture, Proceedings of 8th International Workshop on Human-friendly Welfare Robotic Systems, Daejeon, October 2007 (joint work with ETRI Korea). [pdf]
• J. Xia, C. Chang, T. Kim, H. Yang, R. Bose, A. Helal, Fault-resilient Ubiquitous Service Composition, Proceedings of 3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE '07), Ulm, September 2007. [pdf]
• R. Bose, A. Helal, V. Sivakumar, S. Lim, Virtual Sensors for Service-oriented Intelligent Environments, Proceedings of The 3rd IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology, Phuket, April 2007. [pdf]
• R.Bose, H. Yang, Marauder's Map - Bringing People Together, Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Next Generation Service Platforms for Future Mobile Systems, held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), Hiroshima, January 2007. [pdf]
• J. King, R. Bose, S. Pickles, A. Helal, H. Yang, Atlas: A Service-Oriented Sensor Platform, Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications, Tampa, November 2006. [pdf]
• R. Bose, J. King, H. El-Zabadani, S. Pickles, A. Helal, Building Plug-and-Play Smart Homes Using the Atlas Platform, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, Belfast, June 2006. [pdf]
• M. Ali, W. Aref, R. Bose, A. Elmagarmid, A. Helal, I. Kamel, M. Mokbel, NILE-PDT: A Phenomenon Detection and Tracking Framework for Data Stream Management Systems, Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Trondheim, August 2005 (joint work with Purdue University). [pdf]

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