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Padmanabhan Pillai is affiliated with Intel in the United States and conducts research primarily in computer science. Their work spans multiple subfields including computer vision and pattern recognition, computer networks and communications, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and social psychology.

The scientist's research topics focus extensively on IoT and edge/fog computing, context-aware activity recognition systems, visual attention and saliency detection, image and video quality assessment, neural and behavioral psychology studies, ergonomics and musculoskeletal disorders, as well as tactile and sensory interactions.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Padmanabhan Pillai include:

  • OpenRTiST: End-to-End Benchmarking for Edge Computing (2020, IEEE Pervasive Computing)
  • Impact of delayed response on wearable cognitive assistance (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • Edge-Based Live Learning for Robot Survival (2024, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing)
  • Ajalon: Simplifying the authoring of wearable cognitive assistants (2021, Software Practice and Experience)
  • Table of Contents (2020, IEEE Pervasive Computing)

The researcher has frequently collaborated with a number of co-authors, including Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Roger Iyengar, Junjue Wang, Shilpa George, and Haithem Turki.

Padmanabhan Pillai's publications are commonly found in venues such as IEEE Pervasive Computing, PLoS ONE, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Software Practice and Experience, and IEEE Micro.

Best Publications

  • Real-time dynamic voltage scaling for low-power embedded operating systems

    Padmanabhan Pillai;Kang G. Shin

  • Towards wearable cognitive assistance

    Kiryong Ha;Zhuo Chen;Wenlu Hu;Wolfgang Richter

  • Edge Analytics in the Internet of Things

    Mahadev Satyanarayanan;Pieter Simoens;Yu Xiao;Padmanabhan Pillai

  • Odessa: enabling interactive perception applications on mobile devices

    Moo-Ryong Ra;Anmol Sheth;Lily Mummert;Padmanabhan Pillai

  • Design and implementation of power-aware virtual memory

    Hai Huang;Padmanabhan Pillai;Kang G. Shin

  • An empirical study of latency in an emerging class of edge computing applications for wearable cognitive assistance

    Zhuo Chen;Wenlu Hu;Junjue Wang;Siyan Zhao

  • Scalable crowd-sourcing of video from mobile devices

    Pieter Simoens;Yu Xiao;Padmanabhan Pillai;Zhuo Chen

  • Cloudlets: at the leading edge of mobile-cloud convergence

    Mahadev Satyanarayanan;Zhuo Chen;Kiryong Ha;Wenlu Hu

  • Just-in-time provisioning for cyber foraging

    Kiryong Ha;Padmanabhan Pillai;Wolfgang Richter;Yoshihisa Abe

  • Bandwidth-Efficient Live Video Analytics for Drones Via Edge Computing

    Junjue Wang;Ziqiang Feng;Zhuo Chen;Shilpa George

  • Quantifying the Impact of Edge Computing on Mobile Applications

    Wenlu Hu;Ying Gao;Kiryong Ha;Junjue Wang

  • The Impact of Mobile Multimedia Applications on Data Center Consolidation

    Kiryong Ha;P. Pillai;G. Lewis;S. Simanta

  • IrisNet: an internet-scale architecture for multimedia sensors

    Jason Campbell;Phillip B. Gibbons;Suman Nath;Padmanabhan Pillai

  • Lowering the barriers to large-scale mobile crowdsensing

    Yu Xiao;Pieter Simoens;Padmanabhan Pillai;Kiryong Ha

  • A Scalable and Privacy-Aware IoT Service for Live Video Analytics

    Junjue Wang;Brandon Amos;Anupam Das;Padmanabhan Pillai

  • Meld: A declarative approach to programming ensembles

    M.P. Ashley-Rollman;S.C. Goldstein;P. Lee;T.C. Mowry

  • You can teach elephants to dance: agile VM handoff for edge computing

    Kiryong Ha;Yoshihisa Abe;Thomas Eiszler;Zhuo Chen

  • A modular robotic system using magnetic force effectors

    B.T. Kirby;B. Aksak;J.D. Campbell;J.F. Hoburg

  • Scalable shape sculpting via hole motion: motion planning in lattice-constrained modular robots

    M. De Rosa;S. Goldstein;P. Lee;J. Campbell

  • Mainstream: dynamic stem-sharing for multi-tenant video processing

    Angela H. Jiang;Daniel L.-K. Wong;Christopher Canel;Lilia Tang

  • Accelerating Deep Learning by Focusing on the Biggest Losers.

    Angela H. Jiang;Daniel L. K. Wong;Giulio Zhou;David G. Andersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Mahadev Satyanarayanan
Mahadev Satyanarayanan Carnegie Mellon University
Seth Copen Goldstein
Seth Copen Goldstein Carnegie Mellon University
Kang G. Shin
Kang G. Shin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Peter Lee
Peter Lee Carnegie Mellon University
Rahul Sukthankar
Rahul Sukthankar Google (United States)
Todd C. Mowry
Todd C. Mowry Carnegie Mellon University
Roberta L. Klatzky
Roberta L. Klatzky Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Kozuch
Michael Kozuch Intel (United States)
Alexander G. Hauptmann
Alexander G. Hauptmann Carnegie Mellon University
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa University of Washington

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