My research encompasses several areas:

• Deeply embedded wireless sensor systems
• Distributed systems
• Embedded and real-time computing
• Computer networking

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

Q. Mi, J.A. Stankovic, R. Stoleru, " Secure Walking GPS: A Secure Localization and Key Distribution Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks ," to appear 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, "Robust Cluster-based Cut Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of International Conference on Wireless Algorithms and Systems (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), San Diego, CA, 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, San Diego, CA, 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), Boston, MA, November 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 ²D_3/2 and 3d ²D_5/2 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 ²D_j 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.  

Current Students:

• Chenji, Harshavardan (PhD)
• George, Stephen M. (PhD)
• Hassanzadeh, Amin (PhD)
• Won, Myounggyou (PhD)
• Zhou, Wei (PhD)
• Chandanala, Roja (MS)
• Chintapatla, Bharath (MS, co-advised with Dr. Goulart)

For PhD students seeking admission in Fall 2010. If you are interested in working with me and you are a US citizen/permanent resident with an MS degree, please contact me to discuss an opportunity for 4 year, $40,000/year fellowship.

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

• Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
• Editorial Board Member: International Journal On Advances in Networks and Services
• Editorial Board Member: International Journal On Advances in Telecommunications
• 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 AdHoc and Sensor Networks track: 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 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 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

• National Science Foundation (2008, 2009)
• Ontario Research Program, Ministry of Research and Innovation, Canada (2007)

• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
• IEEE Communications Letters
• ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
• ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
• IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine
• IEEE Transactions of Communications of IEICE of Japan
• IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
• IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics
• Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing
• International Journal of Sensor Networks
• Computer 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