Editor in Chief

Nigel Davies is a professor of computer science at Lancaster University. His research interests include systems support for mobile and pervasive computing. He focuses in particular on the challenges of creating deployable mobile and ubiquitous computing systems that can be used and evaluated "in the wild."

Associate Editors in Chief

Ramón Cáceres is a lead member of the technical staff at AT&T Labs. He's an experimental computer systems and networks researcher whose interests include mobile/pervasive/ubiquitous computing, wireless networking, network measurement, virtualization, and security. He received his PhD in computer science from University of California, Berkeley.

Maria R. Ebling is a research staff member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where she manages a group building middleware to support context-sensitive computing with a focus on user privacy concerns. Her research interests include pervasive computing, context-aware computing, mobile computing, distributed systems, privacy, and human-computer interaction. She received her PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Paul Lukowicz is a full professor of computer science and chair of the Embedded Systems Lab at the University of Passau Germany. He’s also head of the research division for Pervasive Healthcare Systems, UMIT. His research interests include pervasive and ubiquitous computing. In particular, he’s interested in activity and context recognition and wearable systems. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Joseph A. Paradiso is an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Arts and Sciences Department, where he directs the Responsive Environments Group and codirects the Things That Think Consortium. His research interests include sensor networks, energy harvesting, ubiquitous computing, and human-computer interaction. He received his PhD in physics from MIT.

Albrecht Schmidt is a professor of pervasive computing and user interface engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. His research interests are ubiquitous computing and context awareness. He has a PhD in computer science from Lancaster University.

Editor in Chief Emeriti

Roy Want is a research scientist at Google. His research interests include mobile and ubiquitous computing, wireless protocols, embedded systems, and automatic identification. He received his PhD for his work on "reliable management of voice in a distributed system" from Cambridge University. While at Olivetti Research (1988–91), he developed the Active Badge, a system for automatically locating people in a building. He joined Xerox PARC's Ubiquitous Computing program in 1991 and led a project called PARCTab, one of the first context-aware computer systems. In 2000, he joined Intel Labs, where he held the position of senior principal engineer working on the Dynamic Composable Computing project. He is currently chair of ACM SIGMOBILE, and a Fellow of IEEE and the ACM.

M. Satyanarayanan is the Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. He's an experimental computer scientist who has pioneered research in mobile and pervasive computing, including his work on the open source Coda File System and Odyssey, a set of open-source operating system extensions (both part of CMU's Project Aura). He has also worked on Internet Suspend/Resume and is a coinventor of many supporting technologies, such as data staging, lookaside caching, translucent caching, and application-aware adaptation. He is a fellow of the ACM and IEEE, and the founding editor in chief of IEEE Pervasive Computing.

Editorial Board

Mary Baker is a senior research scientist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Her research interests include distributed systems, networks, mobile systems, and digital preservation. She received her PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of Usenix, the ACM, and IEEE.

Tucker Balch is an associate professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include collaboration and communication in multirobot teams, and activity recognition and modeling in live social agent systems. He received his PhD in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, his MS in computer science from the University of California, Davis, and his BS in information and computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

John Canny is the Paul and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Engineering and a Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his thesis, "The Complexity of Robot Motion Planning."

Eyal de Lara is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His research interests include distributed, mobile, and ubiquitous computing. His long-term research goal is to provide ubiquitous access to information and services independent of location or the capabilities of specific devices. He received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University.

Anind Dey (Applications Department Editor) is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. His research interests lie in the intersection of human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing, including context-aware systems and more usable ubicomp systems. Dey has a PhD in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Deborah Estrin is a professor of computer science with a joint appointment in electrical engineering at UCLA. Her research interests include embedded networked sensing systems, with emphasis on environmental monitoring applications and participatory sensing systems. Estrin received a PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She's a fellow of the ACM, AAAS, and IEEE.

Hans Gellersen is a professor of interactive systems in Lancaster University's Department of Computing. His research interests are ubiquitous computing and human-computer systems that "take the real world into the loop": context-aware computing, situated user interfaces, and augmented everyday artifacts. Specific interests include integration of sensors and perception in interactive systems, interaction with large numbers of networked artifacts, new interaction techniques, and mobile/wearable collaborative applications. He received his PhD and MSc degrees from the University of Karlsruhe.

Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal (Standards & Emerging Technologies Department Editor) is a professor at the University of Florida and is the director of its Mobile and Pervasive Computing Laboratory. He is also president and CEO of Phoneomena.

Jason Hong (Conferences Department Editor) is an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Human Computer Interaction Institute. His research interests include location-based services and usable security and privacy. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Anthony Joseph (Works in Progress Department Editor) is an associate professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include systems and networking: cybersecurity, mobile systems, overlay networks, wireless packet radio networks, and telephony systems. He holds a PhD in computer science from MIT.

Tim Kindberg is the founder and director of Matter 2 Media Ltd. Previously he was senior researcher at HP Labs, Bristol and Palo Alto, where he worked on the CoolTown project. He was formerly a senior lecturer in computer science at the University of London. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Westminster and a BA in mathematics from the University of Cambridge. His research interests include pervasive, mobile, and urban computing. He is coauthor of the widely used textbook Distributed Systems—Concepts & Design.

James Landay is an associate professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Washington, specializing in human-computer interaction. He is also the laboratory director of Intel Research Seattle. His research interests include automated usability evaluation, demonstrational interfaces, ubiquitous computing, user interface design tools, and Web design. He received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Natalia Marmasse is a software engineer for Google at the Haifa R&D Lab. Her research interests include mobile, ubiquitous, context-aware, and collaborative computing, with a focus on social-mobile applications, location-based services, and generally how computers can enhance human communication. She received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Scott F. Midkiff (Education & Training Department Editor) is a professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech.

Chandra Narayanaswami manages a group on technologies for client computing at IBM Research. He led the IBM Research effort on developing the WatchPad, a high-function wristwatch computer. He also helped develop novel concepts such as the SoulPad and the Personal Mobile Hub and worked on high-performance graphics systems. He received his PhD in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He's a senior member of IEEE.

Kenton O’Hara is a director of research at CSIRO in Australia. His research interests are everyday practices and behaviors relating to mobile and ubiquitous computing and situated displays in shared environments. Previously, he worked at HP Labs and Rank Xerox EuroPARC. He received his PhD in human-computer interaction from University of Wales, Cardiff.

Bernt Schiele (Wearable Computing Department Editor) is Max Planck director at the MPI Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany. His research interests are multimodal computing, computer vision, and machine learning. He has PhD in computer science from the Grenoble Institute of Technology, France.

Rahul Sukthankar is a principal research scientist at Intel Research Pittsburgh and an adjunct research faculty member at the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, information retrieval, and robotics. He received his BSE in computer science and engineering from Princeton University and his PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. He's a member of IEEE, the ACM, and AAAI.

Advisory Board

M. Satyanarayanan (chair) is the Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. He's an experimental computer scientist who has pioneered research in mobile and pervasive computing, including his work on the open-source Coda File System and Odyssey, a set of open source operating system extensions (both part of CMU's Project Aura). He has also worked on Internet Suspend/Resume and is a coinventor of many supporting technologies, such as data staging, lookaside caching, translucent caching, and application-aware adaptation. He is a fellow of the ACM and IEEE, and the founding editor in chief of IEEE Pervasive Computing.

Gaetano Borriello is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. He also founded Intel Research Seattle, where he launched the lab on applications of ubiquitous computing technology to healthcare and elder care, in particular. His research interests include location-based systems, sensor-based inferencing, and tagging objects with passive and active tags. He received his PhD in computer science from University of California, Berkeley.

Daniel Siewiorek is the director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include wearable computing, fault-tolerant computing, and reliability.

Roy Want is a research scientist at Google. His research interests include mobile and ubiquitous computing, wireless protocols, embedded systems, and automatic identification. He received his PhD for his work on "reliable management of voice in a distributed system" from Cambridge University. While at Olivetti Research (1988–91), he developed the Active Badge, a system for automatically locating people in a building. He joined Xerox PARC's Ubiquitous Computing program in 1991 and led a project called PARCTab, one of the first context-aware computer systems. In 2000, he joined Intel Labs, where he held the position of senior principal engineer working on the Dynamic Composable Computing project. He is currently chair of ACM SIGMOBILE, and a Fellow of IEEE and the ACM.