People at Intel Research Seattle
Directors
Anthony LaMarca, Associate Director (homepage, email)
 | Anthony LaMarca joined Intel Research Seattle in June 2001. He is IR Seattle's Associate Director. His research interests include location technologies, ubiquitous computing, distributed systems and user-centered design. His former project, Place Lab, enabled wide-scale device positioning using radio beacons. He is currently co-leading the Everyday Sensing and Perception project with the goal of building high coverage, high accuracy techniques for inferring common contexts. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington. |
David Wetherall, Director (homepage, email)
 | David Wetherall is Director of Intel Research Seattle and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He joined Intel in 2006 to lead IR Seattle in research on computing systems woven into the fabric of everyday life. Wetherall joined the University of Washington faculty in 1999 after completing his Ph.D., E.E. and S.M. in computer science at MIT; he has a B.E. in electrical engineering from the University of Western Australia. His research interests are concentrated in networking and systems, especially wireless networks and mobile devices, network measurement, and the design of Internet protocols. His thesis research pioneered active networks, an architecture in which new network services can be introduced rapidly using mobile code, and for which he received the SIGCOMM Test-of-Time award in 2007. He was been recognized with an NSF CAREER award in 2002 and became a Sloan Fellow in 2004. |
Administration
Cherie Collins, Lab Administrator (email)
 | Cherie Collins provides administrative support to the Intel Research Seattle lab. Prior to joining IR Seattle in 2003, she worked at the Intel Dupont campus for five years where she supported Design Engineers in a Chipset Engineering group. Currently, Cherie is working toward her Bachelor's degree in Business. |
Reji Kumar, Operations Manager (email)
 | Reji Kumar manages the daily operations of Intel Research Seattle and provides program management support. He has been with Intel for 10 years. Before joining IR Seattle in 2008, Reji was a Circuit Design Manager in Intel's Digital Enterprise Group where he led the design and development of high-speed serial IOs including PCI Express, FBD and DDR for various server and workstation chipset products. He previously worked in the areas of Logic Design, Validation and Software-Systems Engineering. Reji received his Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Wright State University. |
James Gurganus, IR IT Manager (email)
Jean Moran, IR Operations Manager (email)
 | Jean Moran manages operations for all of Intel Research. Before joining IR in 2006, Jean managed the Surface Analysis Group in the Materials Technology Department at Intel Santa Clara. She received her doctorate in electrochemistry from the National University of Ireland in Cork. |
Intel Research Staff
Daniel Avrahami (homepage, email)
 | Daniel Avrahami holds a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His current research looks at context-aware applications for everyday life. His other research interests include the use of machine learning in the design of new communication tools, and field and controlled experimentation. |
Ravi Balasubramanian (email)
Sunny Consolvo (homepage, email)
 | Sunny Consolvo joined Intel Research Seattle in October 2001. Sunny's research interests are in applying user-centered design to ubiquitous computing systems. Her current focus is on developing mobile persuasive technologies and investigating how to help individuals be more aware of what they are potentially exposing about themselves to others when they use wireless networking. Sunny's prior research has included investigating privacy implications of location-enhanced technologies and developing technologies to help elders age in place. She previously worked in Silicon Valley, where her focus was on web design and usability. Sunny received her Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Washington's Information School. |
Benjamin Greenstein (homepage, email)
 | Ben Greenstein joined Intel Research Seattle in September 2006. Currently, he leads Trustworthy Wireless, a project focused on improving privacy for users of wireless devices. His interests fall broadly at the intersection of wireless networks, embedded systems, and distributed systems, but he gets most excited when the low-level mechanisms he designs have the potential to help real users. Ben received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA, where he studied embedded networked sensing systems with Deborah Estrin and Eddie Kohler. |
Beverly Harrison (homepage, email)
 | Beverly Harrison joined Intel Research Seattle in 2005. She is an affiliate associate professor at the University of Washington's Computer Science & Engineering Department and the Information School. She holds a B. Mathematics (Computer Science, Waterloo), M.A.Sc and Ph.D. (Human Factors Engineering, Toronto). Beverly has worked at industrial research labs for over 15 years, including Nortel, Alias/SGI, Xerox PARC, and IBM Research. She also spent two years at an e-book start-up. Her research interests include the design and evaluation of novel mobile and/or sensor-based technologies for ubiquitous computing applications. Most recently, Beverly has been focusing on applications for wearable sensor-based systems that embed machine learning and statistical models of human behavior and context-aware user interfaces. |
Jeffrey Hightower (homepage, email)
 | Jeffrey Hightower has been with Intel Research Seattle since 2003. His research employs devices, services, sensors, and interfaces to allow computing to fade calmly into the background of daily life. Specifically, he investigates sensor- and haptic-enhanced mobile computing. He previously co-led Intel's Place Lab project which sought to make location-enhanced computing widely available and easy to use. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Washington. |
Jaeyeon Jung (homepage, email)
 | Jaeyeon Jung received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 2006, and her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Her research focuses on many aspects of networked systems and system security. Prior to joining Intel Research Seattle, Jaeyeon worked at Mazu Networks and implemented her scan-detection algorithms in Mazu's Profiler product. She is an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington and KAIST. |
Ken Lafond (email)
 | Kenneth Lafond joined Intel Research Seattle in March 2007. As a Research Escalation and Technology Transfer (RETT) Engineer, Kenneth stays current with research in local labs and with market trends to facilitate connections and find advantageous uses for Intel technologies. He is also currently working as software engineer and deployment engineer on the TLC project. Kenneth has been with Intel for nine years in various technical roles. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University. |
James A. Landay (homepage, email)
 | James Landay directed Intel Research Seattle from 2003 to 2006 and now serves as IR Seattle's Strategic Advisor. A professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (UW), James' research interests include automated usability evaluation, demonstrational interfaces, ubiquitous computing, user interface design tools, and web design. He is a founding member of the UW Design:Use:Build (DUB) Center and was a tenured professor in EECS at UC Berkeley before coming to Seattle. James received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. |
Benjie Limketkai (homepage, email)
 | Benjie Limketkai received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and joined Intel Research Seattle in January 2008. His thesis work was on charge-carrier injection and transport in organic semiconductors. His current research focus is in the development of organic semiconductor-based photovoltaic technology for the production of low-cost, large-area organic solar cells. |
Louis LeGrand (email)
 | As a software engineer for Intel Research Seattle, Louis LeGrand was responsible for creating the inference software for Intel's Mobile Sensing Platform. He came to IR Seattle from engineering roles with Pixelworks and Boeing. Louis holds a Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University and another in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. |
Matthai Philipose (homepage, email)
 | Matthai Philipose builds sensor-based systems that allow computers to understand and act on human state. He co-leads the Everyday Sensing and Perception (ESP) project at Intel Research, which has the goal of understanding 90% of a person's life at 90% accuracy using mobile sensing. He has a strong interest in applying such systems to the long-term care of the elderly. To this end, he has collaborated with Intel product groups, universities and government organizations to field test novel telecare systems with dozens of elders. Matthai has a Ph.D. from the University of Washington and a B.Sc. from Cornell University. |
Pauline Powledge (homepage, email)
 | Senior Software Engineer Polly Powledge brought her knowledge of middleware and networking development to Intel Research Seattle in 2003. Most recently, her work has focused on embedded system development, working with MSP430 microcontrollers, Linux/ARM, TinyOS, Symbian and Windows Mobile. Polly holds a M.Sc. from Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. |
Adam Rea (email)
 | Adam Rea joined Intel Research Seattle in August 2002 as the lab's Hardware Engineer. His area of expertise is designing lightweight, power efficient sensing elements. Examples of his work are the Mobile Sensing Platform (MSP), the Wireless Shake Sensor and the RFID bracelet. Adam is currently working on the Everyday Sensing and Perception (ESP) project. He received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington. |
Xiaofeng Ren (email)
Anmol Sheth (homepage, email)
 | Anmol Sheth joined Intel Research Seattle in June 2007. His research interests span the broad area of wireless systems. His current research focuses on understanding the physical layer implications of security and privacy in wireless networks. Anmol's prior research dealt with diagnosing performance degradation faults in distributed wireless systems and building high performance long distance WiFi networks. Anmol received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2007. |
Joshua Smith (homepage, email)
 | Joshua Smith is an Intel Principal Engineer. He leads projects on Personal Robotics, WREL (Wireless Resonant Energy Link), and WISP (Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform). His research focus in Personal Robotics is on electric field sensing for robotic grasping. As a doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joshua invented an electric-field-based passenger airbag suppression system that is now standard equipment in all Honda cars. Josh is an affiliate faculty member in both the department of Electrical Engineering and the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees from MIT, an M.A. in Physics from Cambridge University, and B.A. degrees in Computer Science and Philosophy from Williams College. |
Interns
Daniel Halperin (email)
Affiliated Faculty
Tom Anderson
Brian Bershad
Gaetano Borriello
Craig Chambers
Eyal de Lara
Dieter Fox
Batya Friedman
Steve Gribble
Bill Griswold
Blake Hannaford
Peter Kahn
Henry Kautz
Ed Lazowska
David McDonald
Kristi Morgansen
James Rehg