Victor Shnayder

Email: shnayder eecs.harvard.edu

Directions to Maxwell Dworkin Laboratory
Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS)

Research

I got a masters from the department a few years ago. My advisor was Matt Welsh. This page has some info on my research...

• CodeBlue: Wireless Sensor Networks for Medical Care
• PowerTOSSIM: Power Simulation in Sensor Networks
• SYRAH: Systems Research at Harvard

• Sensor Networks for Medical Care, Victor Shnayder, Bor-rong Chen, Konrad Lorincz, Thaddeus R. F. Fulford-Jones, and Matt Welsh. Harvard University Technical Report TR-08-05, April 2005. [PDF]
• Simulating the Power Consumption of Large-Scale Sensor Network Applications, Victor Shnayder, Mark Hempstead, Bor-rong Chen, Geoff Werner-Allen, and Matt Welsh. In Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'04), Baltimore, MD, November 2004. [PDF] [slides].
• Sensor Networks for Emergency Response: Challenges and Opportunities. Konrad Lorincz, David J. Malan, Thaddeus R.F. Fulford-Jones, Alan Nawoj, Antony Clavel, Victor Shnayder, Geoff Mainland, Steve Moulton, and Matt Welsh. IEEE Pervasive Computing. October - December, 2004. [PDF]
• Combining Independent Modules to Solve Multiple-choice Synonym and Analogy Problems, Peter D. Turney, Michael L. Littman, Jeffrey Bigham, Victor Shnayder. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-03), 2003 [PDF].
• Combining independent modules in lexical multiple-choice problems, Peter D. Turney, Michael L. Littman, Jeffrey Bigham and Victor Shnayder. In Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing III, Nicolov, Nicolas, Kalina Bontcheva, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov (eds.), 101 ff. 2004. [PDF].

• CodeBlue: Wireless Sensor Networks for Medical Care. Victor Shnayder, Konrad Lorincz, Bor-rong Chen, Thaddeus R.F. Fulford-Jones, Mervin John and Matt Welsh. Presented at NSDI05, May 2005. [PDF]
• CodeBlue: An Ad Hoc Sensor Network Infrastructure for Emergency Medical Care. David Malan, Thaddeus R.F. Fulford-Jones, Victor Shnayder, Breanne Duncan, Matt Welsh, Mark Gaynor, and Steve Moulton. Emerging Technology and Best Practices Seminar. Boston University. Boston, Massachusetts. May 2004. [PDF]
• Simulating the Power Consumption of Large-Scale Sensor Network Applications. Victor Shnayder, Mark Hempstead, Bor-rong Chen, Geoff Werner Allen, and Matt Welsh. Harvard Industrial Partnership meeting. Oct 2004. [PDF]

• Opportunities for Language Based Information Flow Security in Sensor Networks. Final paper for CS255, Spring 2004. [PDF]

Awards

• Fall 2004 - Certificate of Distinction in Teaching

Undergraduate stuff

Before coming to Harvard, I got my undergraduate degree in computer science from Princeton University.

Here are some of the more interesting projects I did at Princeton. Keep in mind that these were all only one semester projects and the writeups were done at the last minute, so the writing is kinda poor at times.

• Automated Parallelization of Network Servers. Fall 2002 independent work, advised by Vivek Pai. Final report here.
• Load and Proximity Aware Request Distribution. Spring 2003 independent work, advised by Vivek Pai. Final report here.
• An Artificially Intelligent Analogy Solver Spring 2002 independent work, advised by Michael L. Littman. The RANLP-03 paper above is an extension of this project. Write up here.
• Yet Another System For Algorithm Animation. Fall 2001 independent work, advised by Brian Kernighan. Writeup here.
• FantasyEngine. Class project for Brian Kernighan's CS333: Advanced Programming Techniques in the spring of 2001.