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Computer Engineering PhD Student & Research Assistant
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The University of Texas at Dallas
May 2006, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, Department of Computer Science Honors
The University of Texas at Dallas
May 2009, Master of Science in Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Dallas
Estimated Completion: May 2010, Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Engineering
09/01/09 This year I am happy to be a CHAMPS fellow teaching fundamentals of Computer Science to middle school students. http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2008/04/11-001.php
05/31/09 Gone for the summer. I'm a SEPP intern at Rockwell Collins for the summer.
01/23/09 Texas Networking Testbed (TNT) has outgrown its original name! It is now Advanced wireleSS Environment Research Testbed (ASSERT). Under the new name we are continuing development of system hardware and software.
01/12/09 As part of my dissertation I am currently investigating route failover mechanisms in a multiple sink environment for wireless sensor networks.
01/12/09 A significant portion of the time during my graduate study has involved research and development of the Texas Networking Testbed (TNT). TNT is a complex hardware and software platform for developing and testing wireless networking protocols. As part of my Computer Engineering study I have had significant contributions to the integration of the custom hardware and software components that make up the system.
12/21/08 Our joint lab paper "RF in the Jungle: Effect of Environment Assumptions on Wireless Experiment Repeatability" has been accepted to ICC 2009. This paper identifies several common implicit and explicit assumptions that researchers make regarding the wireless environment and evaluates their correctness. Ultimately the paper recognizes the need for repeatable experiment platforms such as the Texas Networking Testbed.
Johnson, P., Nourbakhsh, E., Burchfield, R., Dix, R., Prakash, R., Venkatesan, S., Mittal, N., McFearin, L. Demo: ASSERT - An Advanced Wireless Environment Research Testbed, Demo in SenSys'09
Burchfield, R., Nourbakhsh, E., Dix, J., Sahu, K., Venkatesan, S., Prakash, R. 2009. "RF in the Jungle": Effect of Environment Assumptions on Wireless Experiment Repeatability to appear in Proceedings of The IEEE International Conference on Communications 2009.
Burchfield, T.R., Venkatesan, S. 2007. Accelerometer-Based Human Abnormal Movement Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks. UTDCS-19-07 and poster in HealthNet '07: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGMOBILE international workshop on Systems and networking support for healthcare and assisted living environments located with International Conference On Mobile Systems, Applications And Services (MobiSys 2007)
Burchfield, T.R., Venkatesan, S., Weiner, D. 2007. Maximizing Throughput in ZigBee Wireless Networks through Analysis, Simulations and Implementations. UTDCS-24-07 and in proceedings of First International Workshop on Localized Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (LOCALGOS 2007) located with Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS) 2007
