Michael Lyons

Computer Science PhD Student
Harvard University

Papers Teaching Contact Info Biography

I'm a second year graduate student studying Computer Science under my advisor David Brooks. I enjoy designing energy efficient hardware and software for embedded systems. My research currently focuses on Wireless Sensor Networks, which use tiny battery powered computers called motes to monitor a large area. I hope that my work will reduce the amount of energy consumed by electronics and help portable devices do bigger and better things without needing to be charged so often.

Papers

Steven Chang, Adam Kirsch, and Michael Lyons. Energy and Storage Reduction in Data Intensive Wireless Sensor Network Applications. Harvard Computer Science Technical Reports (2007). [PDF]

Teaching

I am currently a teaching fellow (TA) for CS 61: Systems Programming and Machine Organization.

I was a teaching fellow for CS141: Computing Hardware during the fall 2007 semester.

Contact Info

mjlyons at eecs dot harvard dot edu

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Maxwell Dworkin Room 307
33 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA

Biography

Before graduate school, I worked at Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Division in Seattle for about two years. Specifically, I was a Software Design Engineer in Test for Windows Mobile and wrote software tools to test mobile phone applications.

I spent my undergraduate years in Philadelphia, studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania. I also worked as an intern at Olympus Optical in Tokyo and spent a semester abroad at the University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong.