Radu Stoleru

Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843

Office: 324C L.F. Peterson Building (PETR)
Phone: (979) 862-8349
Email: {my-lastname}@cse.tamu.edu




Biographical

Dr. Radu Stoleru is a full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, and the head of the Laboratory for Embedded & Networked Sensor Systems (LENSS).

Dr. Stoleru's current research interests are in edge/fog computing, cyber physical systems (CPS), Internet-of-Things (IoT), distributed systems, and wireless networking. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER, a Fulbright Scholar, and several other awards. Dr. Stoleru received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Virginia in 2007. While at the University of Virginia, Dr. Stoleru received from the Department of Computer Science the Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award for 2007. He has authored or co-authored over 90 conference and journal papers with over 7,700 citations (Google Scholar). He is currently serving as an editorial board member for 3 international journals and has served as technical program committee member on numerous international conferences.

Teaching CSCE 662/438: Distributed Systems: Spring '10, '12, '13, '17, '18, '19, '20, '22
CSCE 664/464: Wireless and Mobile Systems: Fall '10, '11, '12, '13, '15, '21; Spring '16, '17, '19
CSCE 410: Operating Systems: Fall '17
CSCE 313: Introduction to Computer Systems: Spring '09, '10, '16; Fall '10
CSCE 613: Advanced Operating Systems: Spring '14
CSCE 689: Special Topics on Cyber-Physical Systems: Spring '14
CSCE 181: Introduction to Computing: Fall '12
CSCE 689: Special Topics in Wireless Sensor Networks: Fall '07, Spring '08, Fall '08, Fall '09, Spring '11
Publications

M. Sagor, A. Haroon, R. Stoleru, S. Bhunia, A. Altaweel, M. Chao, L. Jin, M. Maurice, R. Blalock, "DistressNet-NG: A Resilient Data Storage and Sharing Framework for Mobile Edge Computing in Cyber-Physical Systems," in ACM Transactions on Cyber Physical Systems (T-CPS), 2024.

M. Broner, S. Lee, L. Jin, and R. Stoleru, "5G-MANTRA: Multi-Access Network Testbed for Research on ATSSS," in The 3rd ACM Workshop on 5G and Beyond Network Measurements, Modeling, and Use Cases (5G-MeMU), 2023.

L. Jin, T. Liu, A. Haroon, R. Stoleru, M. Middleton, Z. Zhu and T. Chaspari, "EMSAssist – An End-to-End Mobile Voice Assistant at the Edge for Emergency Medical Services," in The 20th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2023.

L. Jin, T. Liu, A. Haroon, R. Stoleru, M. Middleton, Z. Zhu, T. Chaspari, "Demo: EMSAssist – An End-to-End Mobile Voice Assistant at the Edge for Emergency Medical Services," in The 20th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2023.

M. Broner, S. Lee, L. Jin, R. Stoleru, "Poster: Towards Multi-Radio Access in 5G Networks," in The 20th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2023.

A. Altaweel, R. Stoleru, G. Gu, A.K. Maity, S. Bhunia, "On Detecting Route Hijacking Attacks in Opportunistic Mobile Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) , 2022.

A. Altaweel, C. Yang, R. Stoleru, S. Bhunia, M. Sagoor, M. Maurice, R. Blalock, "RSock: A Resilient Routing Protocol for Mobile Fog/Edge Networks ," in Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), 2022.

S. Bhunia, R. Stoleru, A. Haroon, M. Sagor, A. Altaweel, M. Chao, M. Maurice, R. Blalock, "EdgeKeeper: Resilient and Lightweight Coordination for Mobile Edge Clouds," in The 19th IEEE International Conference on Mobile AdHoc and Smart Systems (MASS), 2022.

M. Sagor, R. Stoleru, A. Haroon, S. Bhunia, M. Chao, A. Altaweel, M. Maurice, R. Blalock, "R-Drive: Resilient Data Storage and Sharing for Mobile Edge Clouds," in The 19th IEEE International Conference on Mobile AdHoc and Smart Systems (MASS), 2022.

S. Bhunia, R. Stoleru, A. Haroon, M. Sagor, A. Altaweel, M. Chao, M. Maurice, R. Blalock, "Poster: EdgeKeeper – Resilient and Lightweight Coordination for Mobile Edge Computing Systems," in The 20th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2022.

A. Haroon, M. Sagor, M. Maurice, L. Jin, R. Stoleru, R. Blalock, "On Edge Coordination in Highly Dynamic Cyber-Physical Systems for Emergency Response," in The 1st Workshop on CyberPhysical Systems for Emergency Response (CPS-ER), 2022.

M. Chao, R. Stoleru, "R-MStorm: A Resilient Mobile Stream Processing System for Dynamic Edge Networks," in IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC), 2020.

M. Won, W. Zhang, C.-an Chen, R. Stoleru, "GROLL: Geographic Routing for Low Power and Lossy IoT Networks," in Elsevier Internet of Things - Engineering Cyber Physical Human Systems, 2019.

A. Murthy, C. Green, R. Stoleru, S. Bhunia, C. Swanson, T. Caspari "Machine Learning-based Irrigation Control Optimization," in ACM Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities and Transportation (BuildSys), 2019.

L. Jin, L. Zhao, Z. Yan, R. Stoleru, "NanoCommunication-based Impermeable Region Mapping for Oil Reservoir Exploration," in 6th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom), 2019.

Y. Zeng, M. Chao, R. Stoleru, "EmuEdge: A Hybrid Emulator for Reproducible and Realistic Edge Computing Experiments," in 2019 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC), 2019.

A. Altaweel, R. Stoleru, G. Gu, A. Maity "CollusiveHijack: A New Route Hijacking Attack and Countermeasures in Opportunistic Networks" in IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2019. (28% acceptance rate)

M. Chao, C. Yang, Y. Zeng, R. Stoleru "F-MStorm: Feedback-Based Online Distributed Mobile Stream Processing" in IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), 2018. (28% acceptance rate)

K. D Ortiz-Lopez, M. A. Suresh, R. Stoleru "Transmitters location optimization for drug delivery systems" in th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom), 2018.

A. Altaweel, R. Stoleru, G. Gu, "EvilDirect: A New Wi-Fi Direct Hijacking Attack and Countermeasures," in The 26th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2017. (25% acceptance rate)

W. Zhang, Y. Zhou, R. Stoleru, "Performance analysis and tuning of coexisting duty cycling WiFi and wireless sensor networks," in IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), 2017. (26% acceptance rate)

J. George, C.-An Chen, R. Stoleru, G. Xie, "Hadoop MapReduce for Mobile Clouds," in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2016 to appear.

Y. Feng, R. Stoleru, C.-An Chen, G. Xie, "A Routing Protocol Independent Caching Framework for Mobile Clouds," in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), 2016 to appear.

C. Yang, R. Stoleru, "Hybrid Routing in Wireless Networks with Diverse Connectivity," in ACM 17th International Symposium on Mobile AdHoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc) , 2016. (18.5% acceptance rate)

C.-An Chen, R. Stoleru, G.Xie "Energy Efficient and Fault-Tolerant Mobile Cloud Storage," in IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), 2016.

W. Gong, M. Suresh, L. Smith, A. Ostfeld, R. Stoleru, A. Rasekh, M.K. Banks, "Mobile Sensor Networks for Optimal Leak and Backflow Detection and Localization in Municipal Water Networks," in Environmental Modelling and Software, Elsevier, 2016.

S. Taheri, D. Hogrefe, R. Stoleru, "Secure Neighbor Discovery in Mobile AdHoc Networks Through Local Topology Visualization," in The 30th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), 2016. (29% acceptance rate)

W. Zhang, M. Suresh, Y. Zhou, R. Veera, R. Stoleru, "On the Coexistence of 802.11 and 802.15.4 Networks with Delay Constraints," in 34th IEEE -- International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2015. (29% acceptance rate)

C. Yang, R. Stoleru "On Balancing the Energy Consumption of Routing Protocols for Opportunistic Social Networks," in 34th IEEE -- International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2015. (29% acceptance rate)

A. Altaweel, R. Stoleru, S. Mandal, "On Secure Shared Key Establishment for Mobile Devices using Contextual Information," in 34th IEEE -- International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2015. (29% acceptance rate)

Q. Ning, C.A. Chen, R. Stoleru, C. Chen, "Mobile Storm: Distributed Real-time Stream Processing for Mobile Clouds," in 4th IEEE -- International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), 2015.

W. Zhang, Y. Zhou, M. Suresh, R. Stoleru, "On Modeling Single Cell IEEE 802.11 Ad-Hoc Networks with Power Saving Mode," in IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2015. (29% acceptance rate)

S. Mandal, C. Yang, A. Altaweel, R. Stoleru, "An Efficient Pairwise Key Establishment Scheme for Ad-Hoc Mobile Clouds," in IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2015. (29% acceptance rate)

M. Won, R. Stoleru, "A Hybrid Multicast Routing for Large Scale Sensor Networks with Holes," in IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2015 to appear

M. Suresh, W. Zhang, W. Gong, R. Stoleru, A. Rasekh, K.M. Banks, "Towards Optimal Monitoring of Flow-based Systems using Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks," in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 2015 to appear

M. Suresh, U. Manohar, G R Anjana, R. Stoleru, M. Kumar, "A Cyber-Physical System for Continous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems," in IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2014.

C. Yang, R. Stoleru, "Routing Protoocol-Independent Contact Optimization for Opportunistic Social Networks," in IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2014.

J. George, C.-An Chen, R. Stoleru, G. Xie, T. Sookoor, D. Bruno, "Hadoop MapReduce for Tactical Clouds," in IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), 2014.

C.-An Chen, M. Won, R. Stoleru, and G. Xie, "Energy-Efficient Fault-Tolerant Data Storage & Processing in Mobile Cloud," in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2014 to appear.

W. Zhang, M. Suresh, R. Stoleru, H. Chenji, "On Modeling the Coexistence of 802.11 and 802.15.4 Networks for Performance Tuning," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication (TWC), 2014 to appear

M. Won and R. Stoleru, "A Low Stretch-Guaranteed and Lightweight Geographic Routing Protocol for Large-scale Sensor Networks," in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 2014 to appear

A. Hassanzadeh, R. Stoleru, M. Polychronakis, G. Xie "RAPID: Traffic-Agnostic Intrusion Detection for Resource-Constrained Wireless Mesh Networks," in Computers and Security (Elsevier), 2014 to appear.

A. Hassanzadeh, A. Altaweel and R. Stoleru, "Traffic-and-Resource-Aware Intrusion Detection in Wireless Mesh Networks," in Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), 2014 to appear.

Y. Feng, R. Stoleru, J. Chen, G. Xie, "On Data Caching for Mobile Clouds," in International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2014. (27% acceptance rate)

H. Chenji, and R. Stoleru, "Delay-tolerant networks (DTNs) for emergency communications," in Advances in delay-tolerant networks (DTNs) architectures, routing and challenges, 2014 to appear

A. Hassanzadeh, R. Stoleru, "On the Attack-and-Fault Tolerance of Intrusion Detection Systems in Wireless Mesh Networks," in 12th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW), 2014.

H. Chenji, R. Stoleru, "Pareto Optimal Cross Layer Lifetime Optimization for Disaster Response Networks," in 6th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), 2014. (17.6% acceptance rate)

M. Suresh, L. Smith, A. Rasekh, R. Stoleru, K. Banks, B. Shihada, "Mobile Sensor Networks for Leak and Backflow Detection in Water Distribution Systems," in 28th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networking and Applications (AINA), 2014. (27% acceptance rate)

A. Hassanzadeh, Z. Xu, R. Stoleru, G. Gu and M. Polychronakis, "PRIDE: Practical Intrusion Detection in Resource Constrained Wireless Mesh Networks," in 15th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS), 2013. (20% acceptance rate)

W. Zhang, M. Suresh, R. Stoleru, "On Modeling the Coexistence of WiFi and Wireless Sensor Networks", in The 10th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2013.

H. Chenji, L. Smith, R. Stoleru, E. Nikolova, "Raven: Energy Aware QoS Control for DRNs", in IEEE 9th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2013. (29% acceptance rate)

H. Chenji, W. Zhang, R. Stoleru, C. Arnett, "DistressNet: A Disaster Response System Providing Constant Availability Cloud-like Services," AdHoc Networks (Elsevier), accepted, to appear, 2013.

J. Chen, M. Won, R. Stoleru, G. Xie, "Resource Allocation for Energy Efficient k-out-of-n System in Mobile Ad Hoc Network," in International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2013. (invited paper)

J. Chen, M. Won, R. Stoleru, G. Xie, "Energy-Efficient Fault-Tolerant Data Storage & Processing in Dynamic Networks," accepted, to appear in ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), 2013. (18% acceptance rate)

A. Hassanzadeh, R. Stoleru, "On the Optimality of Cooperative Intrusion Detection for Resource Constrained Wireless Networks," Computers and Security (Elsevier), accepted, to appear, 2013.

M. Won, R. Stoleru, H. Chenji, W. Zhang, "On Optimal Connectivity Restoration in Segmented Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), 2013. (23% acceptance rate)

H. Chenji, R. Stoleru, "Towards Accurate Mobile Sensor Network Localization in Noisy Environments," accepted, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2012.

M.A. Suresh, R. Stoleru, E. Zechman, B. Shihada, "On Event Detection and Localization in Acyclic Flow Networks," accepted, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part A: Systems, 2012.

R. Stoleru, H. Wu, H. Chenji, "Secure Neighbor Discovery and Worhmhole Localization for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," accepted, to appear in AdHoc Networks (Elsevier), 2012.

M. Won, W. Zhang, R. Stoleru, "GOAL: A Parsimonious Geographic Routing Protocol for Large Scale Sensor Networks," accepted, to appear in AdHoc Networks (Elsevier), 2012.

Q. Mi, J.A. Stankovic, R. Stoleru, "Practical and Secure Localization and Key Distribution for Wireless Sensor Networks," accepted, to appear in AdHoc Networks (Elsevier), 2012.

H. Chenji, W. Zhang, M. Won, R. Stoleru, C. Arnett, "A Wireless System for Reducing Response Time in Urban Search & Rescue," in Proceedings of 31st IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2012. (27% acceptance rate)

M. Won, R. Stoleru, "A Destination-based Approach for Cut Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks," accepted, to appear in International Journal on Parallel, Emergent and Distributed System (IJPEDS), 2012.

R. Chandanala, W. Zhang, R. Stoleru, M. Won, "On Combining Duty-Cycling with Network Coding in Flood-based Sensor Networks," in AdHoc Networks (Elsevier) vol 11, issue 1, pp 490-507, January 2013.

M.A. Suresh, R. Stoleru, R. Denton, E. Zechman, B. Shihada, "Towards Optimal Event Detection and Localization in Acyclic Flow Networks," in Proceedings of International Conferences on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), 2012.

P. Barooah, H. Chenji, R. Stoleru, T. Kalmar-Nagy, "Cut Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol 23, issue 3, 2012..

M. Won, R. Stoleru, "VIGOR+: Energy-Efficient Local Visibility Graph-based Geographic Routing in Large-Scale Sensor Networks," in Technical Report, Texas A&M University, Department of Computer Science, TR-2011-12-2, 2011 .

H. Chenji, A. Hassanzadeh, M. Won, Y. Li, W. Zhang, X. Yang, R. Stoleru, G. Zhou, "A Wireless Sensor, AdHoc and Delay Tolerant Network System for Disaster Response," in Technical Report, Texas A&M University, Department of Computer Science, TR-2011-12-2, 2011 .

W. Zhou, M. Won, R. Stoleru, "Energy Efficient Multi-Channel Media Access Control for Dense Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks," in Wireless Networks (Springer), major review.

M. Won, R. Stoleru, "Energy Efficient and Robust Multicast Routing for Large Scale Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP International Conferences on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), 2011 (22% acceptance rate) (Best Student Paper Award).

M. Won, R. Stoleru,"Destination-based Cut Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP International Conferences on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), 2011 (22% acceptance rate).

M. Won, R. Stoleru, H. Wu "Geographic Routing with Constant Stretch in Large Scale Sensor Networks with Holes," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2011.

A. Hassanzadeh, R. Stoleru, J. Chen, "Efficient Flooding in Wireless Sensor Networks Secured with Neighborhood Keys," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2011.

R. Stoleru, H. Wu, H. Chenji, "Secure Neighbor Discovery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2011.

D. Wang, H. Ahmadi, T. Abdelzaher, H. Chenji, R. Stoleru, C. Aggarwal, "Optimizing Quality-of-Information in Cost-sensitive Sensor Data Fusion," in Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2011.

A. Hassanzadeh, R. Stoleru, "Towards Optimal Monitoring in Cooperative IDS for Resource Constrained Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2011.

A. Hassanzadeh, R. Stoleru, B. Shihada, "Energy Effcient Monitoring for Intrusion Detection in Battery-Powered Wireless Mesh Networks," in Proceedings of International Conference on Ad hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC NOW), 2011.

C. Liao, H. Chenji, P. Barooaha, R. Stoleru, T. Kalmar-Nagy, "Detecting Separation in Robotic and Sensor Networks," arXiv.org , 2011.

R. Stoleru, T. He, S. Mathiharan, J.A. Stankovic, S.M. George, "Asymmetric Event-Driven Node Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks," to appear in IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2010.

M. Won, R. Stoleru, S.M. George, "Towards Robustness and Energy Efficiency of Cut Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks," in Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), 2010.

R. Chandanala, R. Stoleru, "Network Coding in Duty-Cycled Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE Int. International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), 2010.

H. Chenji, R. Stoleru, "Mobile Sensor Network Localization in Harsh Environments," Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2010.

W. Zhou, R. Stoleru, "Towards Higher Throughput and Energy Efficiency in Dense Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2010.

M. Won, Y.O. Lee, W. Zhou, R. Stoleru, "Towards Energy Efficient and Robust Routing with Delay Guarantees in AdHoc and Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of ACM Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2010.

S. M. George, W. Zhou, H. Chenji, M. Won, Y.-Oh Lee, A. Pazarloglou, R. Stoleru, P. Barooah, "A Wireless AdHoc and Sensor Network Architecture for Situation Management in Disaster Response," in IEEE Communications vol. 48, no 3, March 2010.

Q. Mi, J.A. Stankovic, R. Stoleru, "Secure Walking GPS: A Secure Localization and Key Distribution Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), 2010.

P. Vicaire, T. He, T. Yan, Q. Cao, G. Zhou, L. Gu, L. Luo, R. Stoleru, J. A. Stankovic, T. Abdelzaher, "Achieving Long-Term Surveillance in VigilNet," in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, vol. 5, no 1, February 2009.

M. Won, S. M. George, R. Stoleru, "RE2-CD: Robust and Energy Efficient Cut Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA), 2009.

A. Pazarloglou, R. Stoleru, R. Gutierrez-Osuna, "High-resolution speech signal reconstruction in Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Information Retrieval in Sensor Networks (IRSN), 2009.

A. Pazarloglou, M. George, R. Stoleru, R. Gutierrez-Osuna, "Demo Abstract: Signal Reconstruction with SubNyquist Sampling using Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2009.

R. Stoleru, J. A. Stankovic, S. H. Son, "On Composability of Localization Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks," In IEEE Network, 2008.

H. Chenji, P. Barooah, R. Stoleru, T. Kalman-Nagy, "Demo Abstract: Distributed Cut Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2008.

A. Wood, J. Stankovic, G. Virone, L. Selavo, Z. He, Q. Cao, T. Doan, Y. Wu, L. Fang, R. Stoleru, “Context-Aware Wireless Sensor Networks for Assisted-Living and Residential Monitoring,” In IEEE Network, 2008.

T. He, J. A. Stankovic, R. Stoleru, Y. Gu, Y. Wu, "Essentia: Architecting Wireless Sensor Networks Asymmetrically," In Proceedings of Conference on Computer Communication (INFOCOM), 2008 (20% acceptance rate).

R. Stoleru, J. A. Stankovic, S. H. Son "Robust Node Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks," In Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS), 2007

R. Stoleru, T. He, J. A. Stankovic “Range-free Localization,” chapter in "Secure Localization and Time Synchronization for Wireless Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks", editors: Radha Poovendran, Cliff Wang, and Sumit Roy, Advances in Information Security series, Vol. 30, Springer, 2007.

T. He, P.A. Vicaire, T. Yan, L. Luo, L. Gu, G. Zhou, R. Stoleru, Q. Cao, J. A. Stankovic, T. Abdelzaher, "Achieving Real-Time Target Tracking Using Wireless Sensor Networks," In ACM Transaction on Embedded Computing System (TECS), 2007.

R. Stoleru, P. Vicaire, T. He, J. A. Stankovic “StarDust: A Flexible Architecture for Passive Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks,” In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Boulder, CO, 2006.  (19% acceptance rate)

T. He, P. Vicaire, T. Yan, Q. Cao, G. Zhou, L. Gu, L. Luo, R. Stoleru, J. A. Stankovic, T. Abdelzaher, "Achieving Long-Term Surveillance in VigilNet," In Proceedings of  Conference on Computer Communication (INFOCOM), 2006 (18% acceptance rate)

T. He, P. Vicaire, T. Yan, L. Luo, L. Gu, G. Zhou, R. Stoleru, Q. Cao, J. A. Stankovic, T. Abdelzaher, "Achieving Real-Time Target Tracking Using Wireless Sensor Networks," In Proceedings of Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2006.

T. He, S. Krishnamurthy, L. Luo, T. Yan, L. Gu, R. Stoleru, G. Zhou, Q. Cao, P. Vicaire, J. A. Stankovic, T. Abdelzaher, J. Hui, B. Krogh  “Vigilnet: An Integrated Sensor Network System for Energy-Efficient Surveillance,” In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 2006

G. Virone, A. Wood, L. Selavo, Q. Cao, L. Fang, T. Doan, Z. He, R. Stoleru, S. Lin, J. A. Stankovic, "ALARM-NET: an Assisted Living-centered and Testbed-oriented Information System Based on a Residential Wireless Sensor Network," In Proceedings of Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare (D2H2), 2006.

R. Stoleru, T. He, J. A. Stankovic, D. Luebke, "A High-Accuracy, Low-Cost Localization System for Wireless Sensor Networks," In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2005. (17% acceptance rate)

R. Stoleru, T. He, J. A. Stankovic, "Localization System for Outdoor Wireless Sensor Networks," In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), demo paper, 2005.

T. He, R. Stoleru, J. A. Stankovic, "Spotlight: Low-Cost Asymmetric Localization System for Networked Sensor Nodes," In Proceedings of International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), demo paper, Nashville, TN, 2005.

T. He, L. Luo, T. Yan, L. Gu, Q. Cao, G.Zhou, R. Stoleru, P. Vicaire, Q. Cao, J. A. Stankovic, S. Son, T. Abdelzaher, "An Overview of Vigilnet Architecture," In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), invited paper, 2005.

J. A. Stankovic, Q. Cao, T. Doan, L. Fang, Z. He, R. Kiran, S. Lin, S. Son, R. Stoleru, A. Wood, "Wireless Sensor Networks for In-Home Healthcare: Potential and Challenges," In Proceedings of Workshop on High Confidence Medical Devices Software and Systems (HCMDSS), 2005.

R. Stoleru, J. A. Stankovic, “Probability Grid: A Location Estimation Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks,” In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Santa Clara, CA, 2004. (18% acceptance rate)

T. He, S. Krishnamurthy, J. Stankovic, T. Abdelzaher, L. Luo, R. Stoleru, T. Yan, L. Gu, "Energy-Efficient Surveillance System using Wireless Sensor Networks," In Proceedings of International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2004 (14% acceptance rate)

Abdelzaher T., Blum B., Cao Q., Chen Y., Evans D., George J., George S., Gu L., He T., Krishnamurthy S., Luo L., Son S., Stankovic J., Stoleru R., Wood A., "EnviroTrack: Towards an Environmental Computing Paradigm for Distributed Sensor Networks," In Proceedings of  International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Tokyo, Japan, March 2004 (17% acceptance rate)

R. Stoleru, T. He, J. A. Stankovic, "Walking GPS: A Practical Solution for Localization in Manually Deployed Wireless Sensor Networks," In Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS), 2004 (21% acceptance rate)


P. Khedun, M. Giacomoni, C. Damodaram, M. Hollingsworth, A. Ryan, H. Holmes, W. Saour, T. Berthold, R. Kline, N. Ravikumar, E. M. Zechman, G. Moore, B. Boulanger, R. Stoleru “Improving the Hydrologic Sustainability of Texas A&M Campus,” In Proceedings of ASCE/EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources, 2009

A. Sieradzan, R. Stoleru, Y. Xu, Y. Wo, M.D. Havey, “Hyperfine-structure investigation in the 3d 2D3/2 and 3d 2D5/2 states of 39K and 41K atoms,” In Proceedings of Conference of Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP), 1996.

A. Sieradzan, R. Stoleru, W. Yei, M.D. Harvey, “Measurement of hyperfine coupling constants in the 3d 2Dj levels of 39K, 40K, and 41K by polarization quantum-beat spectroscopy,” In Physical Review A 55, 3475-3483, 1997.

R. Stoleru, M.L. Pascu, A.M. Dumitras, “Frequency doubling of He-Ne laser radiation at 632.8 nm,” In Applied Physics A: Pure and Applied Optics 5, 119-124, 1996.

R. Stoleru, A.M. Dumitras, M.L. Pascu,  “Tunable laser UV-VIS radiation obtained by frequency mixing using nonlinear crystals,” In Proceedings of Conference in Optics (ROMOPTO'05), 1995.

Advisees I'm seeking self-motivated PhD students. Please email me your CV and copies of your publications.

Current Students (degree, start time):
  • Liuyi Jin (PhD, Spring 2019)
  • Amran Haroon (PhD, Fall 2020)
  • Tian Liu (MS, Fall 2020)
  • Matan Broner (MS, Fall 2021)
Alumni:
    PhD
  • Mengyuan Chao (PhD, 2020), Bytedance
  • Ala Altaweel (PhD, 2019), Assistant Professor, University of Sharjah
  • Chen Yang (PhD, 2018), Pinterest
  • Wei Zhang (PhD, 2017), NVidia
  • Mahima Agumbe Suresh (PhD, 2015), Assistant Professor, San Jose State University
  • Jay Chen (PhD, 2015), R&D Associate, Accenture Tech Labs
  • Harsha Chenji (PhD, 2014), Assistant Professor, Ohio University
  • Amin Hassanzadeh (PhD, 2014), Technology Research Manager, Accenture Tech Labs
  • Myounggyu Won (PhD, 2013), Assistant Professor, University of Memphis

  • MS
  • Mohammad Sagor (2021)
  • Akshay Ramuhalli (2019)
  • Yukun Zeng (2018)
  • Qian Ning (2015)
  • Subhajit Mandal (2015)
  • Feng, Ying (2014), first position Oracle
  • George, Johnu (2014), first position Cisco
  • Roja Chandanala (2010), first position at Amazon
  • Harsha Chenji (2009), first position PhD student at TAMU

  • BS
  • Kyle McKinney (2013)
  • Reem Alali (2012), first position at Saudi Aramco
  • Cameron Bounds (2011), first position at Lockheed Martin
  • Trevon Carter (2011)
  • Aaron Kirkes (2011)
  • Meg Davis (2009), first position MS student at Carnegie Mellon University

  • PostDoc
  • Dr. Suman Bhunia (2018-2020)
  • Dr. Ala Altaweel (2018-2020)
  • Dr. Wei Zhang (2017-2018)
  • Dr. Mahima Suresh (2017-2018)
  • Dr. Lidia Smith (2012, 2013)
Funding

National Institute of Technology (NIST)

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Office of Naval Research (ONR)

Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)

Rockwell Collins, Inc

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Texas Agrilife Extension Service (TEEX))

Texas A&M University

Awards

Fulbright Scholar, 2013 (declined)

NSF CAREER Award, 2013

Best Student Paper Award (Myounggyu Won) at 9th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), 2011

Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, 2007

Outstanding Achievements Award, Central Michigan University, 1997

Merit Scholarship, University of Bucharest, Ministry of Education, Romania, 1992

Services Editorial Board Member/Chair Positions
  • Editorial Board Member: Elsevier AdHoc Networks
  • Editorial Board Member: Springer CCF Transactions on Networkings
  • Editorial Board Member: Inderscience International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing

  • General Co-Chair: IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), 2014
  • TPC Co-Chair: IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), 2013
  • Student Travel Grant Chair: ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2012
  • Student Travel Grant Co-Chair: ACM Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2012
  • TPC Co-Chair: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2012
  • Student Travel Grant Chair: ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2011
  • TPC Co-Chair: IEEE International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), 2011
  • Publicity Co-Chair: ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2010
  • Publicity Co-Chair: IEEE International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), 2010
  • Poster Co-Chair: IEEE International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), 2009
  • TPC Co-Chair: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2009
  • Publicity Chair: IEEE International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), 2008
  • Publicity Chair: Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS), 2008
  • Session Chair: Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS), 2008
  • Session Chair: Cyberspace Research Workshop, 2007

Technical Program Committee Member

  • TPC Member: IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2024, 2023, 2022, 2017
  • TPC Member: IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2014
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2014
  • TPC Member: IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2013
  • TPC Member: IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2012
  • TPC Member: IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2012
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2012
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Symposium on Conference Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2012
  • TPC Member: International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S/PERCOM), 2012
  • TPC Member: IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh, AdHoc Communications and Networks (SECON), 2011
  • TPC Member: IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2011
  • TPC Member: IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2011
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Symposium on Conference Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2011
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2011
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2011
  • TPC Member: IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2010
  • TPC Member: IEEE Conf. on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC), 2010
  • TPC Member: IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2010
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), 2010
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), 2010
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2010
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2010
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Symposium on Conference Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2010
  • TPC Member: IEEE Global Communications Conference - AdHoc and Sensor Networking Symposium (GLOBECOM), 2010
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM), 2010
  • TPC Member: International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S/PERCOM), 2010
  • TPC Member: ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2010
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC), 2010
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), 2009
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2009
  • TPC Member: IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2009
  • TPC Member: International Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking (MELT/Ubicomp), 2009
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Workshop on Time Critical Applications (IWTCA), 2009
  • TPC Member: International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM), 2009
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2009
  • TPC Member: IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC), 2009
  • TPC Member: IEEE Workshop on Information Retrieval in Sensor Networks (IRSN), 2009
  • TPC Member: International Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking (MELT/Mobicom), 2008
  • TPC Member: IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2008
  • TPC Member: Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS), 2008
  • TPC Member, International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IEEE ICCCN), 2008
  • TPC Member: International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC), 2008.
  • TPC Member: International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM), 2008
  • TPC Member: International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC), 2007
  • TPC Member: International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM), 2007
  • TPC Member: International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC), 2006
Agency Reviewer/Panelist
  • National Science Foundation (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017)
  • Ontario Research Program, Ministry of Research and Innovation, Canada (2007)
Journal/Conference Reviewer
  • ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
  • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Communications Letters
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • IEEE Transactions of Communications of IEICE of Japan
  • IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
  • IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine
  • Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing
  • Elsevier Computer Networks
  • Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks
  • Inderscience International Journal of Sensor Networks
  • Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS) 2008
  • International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2006
  • Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2006
  • Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2003
  • IEEE Southeastern Regional Conference (SoutheastCon), 2007
Last updated: January 19, 2024