Victor Shnayder
Graduate Student in Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Harvard University
shnayder seas.harvard.edu
Maxwell Dworkin 242
I am a fifth year graduate student in computer science. I want to improve scaleable online education by incorporating peer learning, teaching, and evaluation. I am being co-advised
by David Parkes and
Greg Morrisett. My
advisor for my masters
was Matt Welsh.
Teaching
| Fall 2011 | Teaching Fellow for CS186: Economics and Computation |
| Spring 2011 | Teaching Fellow for CS51: Abstraction and Design in Computer Programming |
| Spring 2010 | Instructor for CS365: SEAS Teaching Practicum |
| Spring 2010 | Head Teaching Fellow for CS51: Abstraction and Design in Computer Programming |
| Spring 2010 | Head Teaching Fellow for CS181: Intelligent Machines: Perception, Learning, and Uncertainty |
| 2009-2010 | Departmental Teaching Fellow for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences |
| Fall 2009 | Teaching Fellow for CS61: Systems Programming and Machine Organization |
| Fall 2009 | Teaching Fellow for CS121: Intro to Formal Systems and Computation |
| Spring 2009 | Head Teaching Fellow for CS51: Abstraction and Design in Computer Programming |
| Spring 2009 | Teaching Fellow for CS181: Intelligent Machines: Perception, Learning, and Uncertainty |
| Fall 2008 | Head Teaching Fellow for CS61: Systems Programming and Machine Organization |
| Fall 2008 | Teaching Fellow for CS121: Intro to Formal Systems and Computation |
| Spring 2006 | Teaching Fellow for CS262: Intro to Distributed Systems |
| Fall 2004 | Teaching Fellow for CS263: Modern Distributed Systems |
Research
- EconCS Group
- Mirror as you link -- my project for the Ideas for a Better Internet class
- CodeBlue: Wireless Sensor Networks for Medical Care
- PowerTOSSIM: Power Simulation in Sensor Networks
- SYRAH: Systems Research at Harvard
Publications
- Truthful Prioritization Schemes for Spectrum Sharing Victor Shnayder, Jeremy Hoon, David Parkes, and Vikas Kawadia. NetEcon 2012. PDF. slides
- Decision Markets With Good Incentives Yiling Chen, Ian Kash, Mike Ruberry and Victor Shnayder. WINE 2011. PDF. Full version
- The Advanced Health and Disaster Aid Network: A Light-weight Wireless Medical System for Triage. Tia Gao, Tammara Massey, Leo Selavo, David Crawford, Bor-rong Chen, Konrad Lorincz, Victor Shnayder, Logan Hauenstein, Foad Dabiri, James Jeng, Arjun Chanmugam, David White, Majid Sarrafzadeh, and Matt Welsh. In IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Vol. 1, no. 3, September 2007. PDF
- 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
Posters
- Linking Decisions with Correlated Types Victor Shnayder, David Parkes, Mark Klein, and Gabriel Moreno. CAEC 2011. PDF
- Decision Markets With Good Incentives Yiling Chen, Ian Kash, Mike Ruberry and Victor Shnayder. NYCE 2011. PDF
- Sensor networks for medical care. Victor Shnayder, Konrad Lorincz, Bor-rong Chen, Thaddeus R.F. Fulford-Jones, and Matt Welsh. Demo presented at SenSys05, Nov 2005
- 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
Other papers
- Continuous Combinatorial Exchange with an Application to Course-Swapping Aftermarkets. Final paper for CS286, Spring 2005, with Eric Budish. PDF
- Opportunities for Language Based Information Flow Security in Sensor Networks. Final paper for CS255, Spring 2004. PDF
Awards
| Fall 2011 | Certificate of Distinction in Teaching |
| Fall 2009 | Two Certificates of Distinction in Teaching |
| Fall 2008 | Certificate of Distinction in Teaching |
| Fall 2004 | Certificate of Distinction in Teaching |
Random
- I am a resident tutor at Mather House
- I am on the executive board of Harvard Aikikai
- I am a leader and officer-at-large with the Harvard Outing Club
- I like NOLS