We’re happy to announce that three new students will be joining us this summer.  All three are outstanding students that have been selected and sponsored by organizations that strongly support undergraduate research.  One student is sponsored by Intel’s Research Program for Undergraduates (Intel REU), a program that “connects faculty to outstanding students who will assist in research and become an integral part of the research team”.  The other two students are sponsored by the Computing Research Association Women’s Distributed Mentor Program (CRA-W DMP), a “highly selective program that matches promising undergraduate women and underrepresented groups with a faculty mentor for a summer research experience”.
All three students will be working on RFID Ecosystem related projects with Prof. Balazinska and myself for 40 hrs/week this summer.  Leilani Battle (Intel REU) is a UW CSE student and will be working on algorithms to extract meaningful places from the probabilistic RFID location traces produced by Cascadia.  Kayla Eucken (CRA-W DMP) is a CS student at Western Oregon University and will be implementing a web-based notifier application that allows users to receive email and SMS notifications when Cascadia detects a particular RFID event (e.g., “I leave the building without my car keys”).  Kyle Rector (CRA-W DMP) is an EECS student at Oregon State University and will be investigating the use of Cascadia’s RFID events (e.g., group meetings, social events) as landmarks in desktop search with Google Desktop.  Kayla and Kyle will be maintaining project web sites hosted by CRA-W throughout the summer: Kayla’s page, Kyle’s page.  Kayla is also maintaining a project blog at UW CSE.