Hey! I'm Alex

I’m a third year CSE PhD student at UCSD advised by Pat Pannuto. I'm interested in deployable, sensing systems in real-world environments. I am also always interested in finding new and different ways to collect information about the environment to solve societal problems (or just improve our quality of life!), while acknowledging the limitations (e.g. power) to actually put something out in the real world. I currently lead two projects:

• Lights, Camera, Grid!
Our vision is to enable autonomous monitoring of the electic grid by imaging visible lights (e.g. street lights, house lights) with cameras. This project intersects knowledge regarding signal processing, machine learning, and computer vision.
• LoRa Analysis (via Helium)
Helium (recently rebranded to Nova Labs) is the reason that there are about one million LoRa gateways spread across the world. This provides an opportunity to analyze LoRa in ways that would usually require a single person (or group of people) to set up many gateways themselves.

Before coming to UCSD, I completed my bachelors degree in Computer Engineering at UMass Amherst, where I worked with Jay Taneja. I am also fortunate to be supported by the NSF through the Graduate Reserach Fellowship and would be happy to share my advice with others!

In my spare time, I enjoy cooking, playing piano, listening to music, playing tennis, climbing, and writing. I also love to socialize and meet new people!