Mark Corner

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Biography:

Mark Corner is an expert in the areas of mobile and pervasive computing and networking, file systems, and security. He is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has been there since 2003.   At UMass he teaches the Operating Systems course and a course on Usability.

He has authored dozens of publications on mobile systems, holds two patents, and has been awarded millions of dollars in federal and industrial research grants. He was selected for DARPA's prestigious Computer Science Study Panel in 2009. He was the recipient of an NSF CAREER award in 2005, Best Paper awards at USENIX FAST 2007, ACM Multimedia 2005, and ACM Mobicom 2002. Prof. Corner also serves on the editorial board of IEEE Pervasive and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Mark holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and BS and MS degrees from the University of Virginia.

Ph.D. (2003) Electrical Engineering: Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

M.S. (1998), B.S. (1998),  University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

HS (1993), Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA

Research Interests:

I am currently spending my sabbatical working at a startup called Fluent Mobile. Own an iPhone?  Install our app!

I work primarily in the areas of power management and mobile sensing.  We have built a number of systems for tracking wildlife, such as mongooses, tortoises, and turtles.  In support of our research on Disruption Tolerant Networking, we have built a large-scale outdoor testbed, called DOME.  This includes a wireless Mesh Network in downtown Amherst, MA.  We have also built a number of systems for saving energy in laptops and embedded sensors using a technique called Hierarchical Power Management (HPM).  We have also conducted studies in battery usage in mobile devices with a system called Llama.  We have developed a number of systems for locating objects using passive RFID tags.

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