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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - ACM Senior Member
  • 2015 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Prabal Dutta is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with specific expertise in subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Networks and Communications, Modeling and Simulation, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work covers a range of topics including Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems, Augmented Reality Applications, IoT and Edge/Fog Computing, Fire Detection and Safety Systems, Fire effects on ecosystems, Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics, and Infection Control and Ventilation.

Recent publications by Prabal Dutta include:

  • ARticulate (2022) in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • Measuring office workplace interactions and hand hygiene behaviors through electronic sensors: A feasibility study (2021) in PLoS ONE
  • CoVista: A Unified View on Privacy Sensitive Mobile Contact Tracing Effort (2020) in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • POET: Training Neural Networks on Tiny Devices with Integrated Rematerialization and Paging (2022) in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Downwind Fire and Smoke Detection during a Controlled Burn-Analyzing the Feasibility and Robustness of Several Downwind Wildfire Sensing Modalities through Real World Applications (2023) in Fire

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Prabal Dutta include:

  • Mark Newman
  • Joseph E. Gonzalez
  • Meghan Clark
  • Patrick Chwalek
  • Hall Chen

They often publish in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • Fire
  • PLoS ONE
  • Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking

Prabal Dutta has received recognition including the ACM Senior Member award in 2018 and was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2015.

Best Publications

  • A line in the sand: a wireless sensor network for target detection, classification, and tracking

    A. Arora;P. Dutta;S. Bapat;V. Kulathumani

  • Demo: Luxapose: indoor positioning with mobile phones and visible light

    Ye-Sheng Kuo;Pat Pannuto;Ko-Jen Hsiao;Prabal Dutta

  • Common Sense: participatory urban sensing using a network of handheld air quality monitors

    Prabal Dutta;Paul M. Aoki;Neil Kumar;Alan Mainwaring

  • Practical asynchronous neighbor discovery and rendezvous for mobile sensing applications

    Prabal Dutta;David Culler

  • Design of a wireless sensor network platform for detecting rare, random, and ephemeral events

    Prabal Dutta;Mike Grimmer;Anish Arora;Steven Bibyk

  • ExScal: elements of an extreme scale wireless sensor network

    A. Arora;R. Ramnath;E. Ertin;P. Sinha

  • An empirical study of low-power wireless

    Kannan Srinivasan;Prabal Dutta;Arsalan Tavakoli;Philip Levis

  • Trio: enabling sustainable and scalable outdoor wireless sensor network deployments

    Prabal Dutta;Jonathan Hui;Jaein Jeong;Sukun Kim

  • Design and implementation of a high-fidelity AC metering network

    Xiaofan Jiang;Stephen Dawson-Haggerty;Prabal Dutta;David Culler

  • Design and evaluation of a versatile and efficient receiver-initiated link layer for low-power wireless

    Prabal Dutta;Stephen Dawson-Haggerty;Yin Chen;Chieh-Jan Mike Liang

  • Flush: a reliable bulk transport protocol for multihop wireless networks

    Sukun Kim;Rodrigo Fonseca;Prabal Dutta;Arsalan Tavakoli

  • Understanding the causes of packet delivery success and failure in dense wireless sensor networks

    Kannan Srinivasan;Prabal Dutta;Arsalan Tavakoli;Philip Levis

  • The Internet of Things Has a Gateway Problem

    Thomas Zachariah;Noah Klugman;Bradford Campbell;Joshua Adkins

  • Securing the deluge Network programming system

    Prabal K. Dutta;Jonathan W. Hui;David C. Chu;David E. Culler

  • Micro power meter for energy monitoring of wireless sensor networks at scale

    Xiaofan Jiang;Prabal Dutta;David Culler;Ion Stoica

  • Quanto: tracking energy in networked embedded systems

    Rodrigo Fonseca;Prabal Dutta;Philip Levis;Ion Stoica

  • Marionette: using RPC for interactive development and debugging of wireless embedded networks

    Kamin Whitehouse;Gilman Tolle;Jay Taneja;Cory Sharp

  • Experiences with a high-fidelity wireless building energy auditing network

    Xiaofan Jiang;Minh Van Ly;Jay Taneja;Prabal Dutta

  • A Modular 1 mm $^{3}$ Die-Stacked Sensing Platform With Low Power I $^{2}$ C Inter-Die Communication and Multi-Modal Energy Harvesting

    Yoonmyung Lee;Suyoung Bang;Inhee Lee;Yejoong Kim

  • Hijacking power and bandwidth from the mobile phone's audio interface

    Ye-Sheng Kuo;Thomas Schmid;Prabal Dutta

Frequent Co-Authors

David E. Culler
David E. Culler University of California, Berkeley
David Blaauw
David Blaauw University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Philip Levis
Philip Levis Stanford University
Yoonmyung Lee
Yoonmyung Lee Sungkyunkwan University
Anish Arora
Anish Arora The Ohio State University
Scott Shenker
Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan W. Hui
Jonathan W. Hui Google (United States)
Prasun Sinha
Prasun Sinha Google (United States)
Dennis Sylvester
Dennis Sylvester University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Akos Ledeczi
Akos Ledeczi Vanderbilt University

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