CASA Graduate Wins Prestigious NSF Computing Innovation Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship

Victoria Manfredi received her PhD in Computer Science in August 2009.  Her PhD thesis was entitled "Sensor Control and Scheduling Strategies for Sensor Networks" and her PhD thesis advisor was Professor Jim Kurose, of the Department of Computer Science.  Victoria's thesis considered problems in resource allocation in sense-and-response networks, including demonstrating the value of limited look-ahead resource scheduling policies, and demonstrating the benefits of separation of transmitted control and data message in such networks. She received IREE funds to collaborate with the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Upon graduation Vickie received a prestigious NSF Computing Innovation Fellows Postdoctoral fellowship.  These highly competitive fellowships are awarded "to the top emerging researchers in computing." Vickie is now a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science at Boston University.

"My experience with CASA made me realize how important it is to think about research problems in the context of real systems....many of  the interesting computer science problems that I was exposed to in CASA only became apparent during the process of building and deploying the CASA radar network," Victoria Manfredi, March 2010