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Robert LiKamWa

Phone: 310-876-2559
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Simply put, Robert's goal is to advance state-of-the-art mobile technologies through research and design. His research history is lined with project experience in context-aware mobile systems, mobile displays, and human-computer interaction. Currently he is interested in internships in the mobile computing area.

Education

M.S. - Rice UniversityHouston, TX 2010-present

Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisor: Lin Zhong

B.S.E.E. - Rice University (3.85 GPA)Houston, TX 2006-2010

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Minor: Computational and Applied Mathematics

Graduate Research Projects
(project lead)

SUAVE: Sensor-based User-Aware Viewing Enhancements

suave.roblkw.com - Rice University Efficient Computing Group
Ambient light and viewing angle effects impair mobile screens in many scenarios, reducing the quality of the display content. By sensing the user's viewing context and providing relevant image adaptations, we increase the usability, readability, and image fidelity of the mobile displays.
Presented demo at UIST 2011

MoodSense: Can your Smartphone Infer Your Mood?

Microsoft Research Asia Internship, Rice University Efficient Computing Group

Our system can infer a user's mood based on information already available in today’s smartphones, including website visitations, app usage, and communication via SMS, e-mail, and phone calls. The service enhances context-awareness by providing clues about mobile users’ mental states.
Published Workshop Paper at PhoneSense 2011 (co-located with SenSys)

Graduate Research Projects
(co-author)

Reflex

Rice University Efficient Computing Group, with Felix Xiaozhu Lin and Zhen Wang

Reflex is a suite of compiler and runtime support tools for efficient smartphone sensing. A distributed heterogeneous architecture promises energy-efficiency to sensing applications, but programming software on such an architecture is difficult. Reflex not only manages deployment and execution of code that is considered for heterogeneous resources, but also creates a software shared memory among distributed code.
To be published at ASPLOS 2012

Graduate Honors/Awards
  • Best Ph.D. Forum Presentation at Mobicom S3 Workshop (9/11)
  • Texas Instruments Graduate Fellowship (8/10)
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention (5/11)
Skills

Programming/Scripting Languages
C/C++, Unix, MATLAB, Java (including Android), Python, Perl, Objective-C (iPhone)
Web Development
HTML, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Adobe Flash

Undergraduate Research

Eagleman Laboratory2007-2010

www.synesthete.org – Supervisor: Dr. David Eagleman
Baylor College of Medicine, Neuroscience Department
Developed collection of online tests to determine whether participants experience a neurological condition known as synesthesia. Used Java, PHP/MySQL, Adobe Flash, and MATLAB to gather, store, and analyze results.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)2008

Data Acquisition on Superconducting Wires – Mentor: Dr. Loren Goodrich
Electromagnetics Dept. - Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Constructed electronic circuits and LabVIEW programs to calibrate and control several different instruments to regulate the pressure and temperature of a cryostat and the applied field of a 16 Tesla electromagnet to monitor the effects of different conditions on various superconducting wires.

Undergraduate Honors/Awards
  • 2010: Best Interdisciplinary Senior Design Project
  • 2010: Third Place Texas Instruments Engibous Prize
  • 2009 Rice Engineering Alumni Scholarship Student Award
  • 2009-2010 Louis J. Walsh Scholarship in Engineering
  • 1st place Rice AMD Verilog Design Competition (Fall 2008)
References
Available on request