About Me

I am a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in the Department of Computer Science, working in the PRISMS lab, advised by Mark Corner.

Job Search

I'm graduating soon (Summer 2010) and currently looking for a job (faculty position, industry research). My application materials can be found here. [CV] [Research Statement] [Teaching Statement]

Research Interests

Broadly: Mobile Systems, Wireless Sensor Networks, and Pervasive Computing.

Specifically: Energy management and awareness, runtime profiling and adaptation, programming languages, operating systems, and disruption tolerant networks.

Projects: Eon, TurtleNet, and Hierarchical Power Management (see Turducken and Triage papers).

Publications

• Papers

  • Eon: A Language and Runtime System for Perpetual Systems.
    J. Sorber, A. Kostadinov, M. Garber, M. Brennan, M. D. Corner, E.D. Berger. In Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '07), Sydney, Australia, November 2007. [PDF]  [Slides]
  • Triage: Balancing Energy Consumption and Quality of Service in Tiered Microservers
    N. Banerjee, J. Sorber, M. D. Corner, S. Rollins, and D. Ganesan. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2007), Puerto Rico, June 2007.[PDF]
  • Turducken: Hierarchical Power Management for Mobile Devices
    J. Sorber, N. Banerjee, M. D. Corner, and S. Rollins. In Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '05), Seattle, WA, June 2005. [PDF]  [Slides]
  • Parallel search for LTL violations
    M. D. Jones, J. Sorber, International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT), Volume 7, Issue 1, Feb 2005, Pages 31 - 42. [PDF]

• Works in Progress, Tech Reports, Posters, etc

  • Tula: Balancing Energy for Sensing and Communication in a Perpetual Mobile System
    J. M. Sorber, A. Balasubramanian, M. D. Corner, J. Ennen, C Qualls. Technical Report UM-CS-2009-058. University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA. December, 2009. [PDF]
  • eFlux: Simple Automatic Adaptation for Environmentally Powered Devices (Poster/Demo)
    J. Sorber, A. Kostadinov, M. Brennan, M. D. Corner, E.D. Berger. In 7th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile/WMCSA), Semiahmoo Resort, Washington, April 2006.
  • Parallel Random Walk Search for LTL Violations
    M. D. Jones, J. Sorber, , Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Model Checking (PDMC), Brno, Czeck Republic, August 2002

Awards

Best Presentation, Ph.D. Forum, MobiSys 2008, Breckenridge, CO.