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Romit Roy Choudhury

Romit Roy Choudhury received his M.S. (CS) and Ph.D (ECE) degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003 and 2006 respectively. Dr. Roy Choudhury is presently an associate professor at the ECE and CS department at Duke University.

Contact Information:
Education:
PhDUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign2006
MSUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign2003
B.TechHaldia Institute of Technology, India2000
Research Interests:

His broad research interests are centered around wireless networking, mobile computing, and human computing. He focuses on (1) exploiting physical layer capabilities for protocol design, (2) developing new technologies for enabling mobile computing and sensing applications, and (3) characterizing how humans influence the design and implementation of networks and systems.

Specialties:

Computer Engineering
Wireless networking
Sensing and Sensor Systems
Mobile Computing
Design
Distributed Systems

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions:

  • ACM MobiCom 2010 Student Research Contest Winner, ACM, 2010
  • Motorola Center Communications Fellowship, 2005
  • NSF Early CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2008
  • Personal Wireless Conference Best Paper Award, 2003, 2004
  • University Silver Medal, B. Tech, 2000
  • Vodafone Fellowship, 2005

Courses Taught:
  • ECE 256 - WIRELESS NETWORKING (Synopsis)

Representative Publications: (More Publications)
  1. Kyasanur, P. and Roy Choudhury, R. and Gupta, I., Smart gossip: an adaptive gossip-based broadcasting service for sensor networks, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) (IEEE Cat. No.06EX1476) (2006), pp. 10 pp. - [abs]
  2. R. Roy Choudhury, Xue Yang, Nitin Vaidya, Ram Ramanathan, Utilizing Directional Antennas for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, ACM Mobicom (2002)
  3. Choudhury, R.R. and Vaidya, N.H., Deafness: a MAC problem in ad hoc networks when using directional antennas, Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) (2004), pp. 283 - 92 [abs]
  4. Choudhury, R.R. and Vaidya, N.H., Impact of directional antennas on ad hoc routing, Personal Wireless Communications. IFIP-TC6 8th International Conference, PWC 2003. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci. Vol.2775) - Best Paper Award (2003), pp. 590 - 600 [abs]
  5. Choudhury, R.R., Brownian gossip: exploiting node mobility to diffuse information in ad hoc networks, 2005 International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing and Workshops (IEEE Cat. No. 05EX1251C) (2005), pp. 5 pp. - [abs]
  6. Choudhury, R.R. and Vaidya, N.H., MAC-layer anycasting in ad hoc networks, Comput. Commun. Rev. (USA), vol 34 no. 1 (2004), pp. 75 - 80 [972374.972388] [abs]