Publications
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Unequal time for unequal value: Design implications of differing motivations for participation in timebanking
We report on an investigation of timebanking practices by analyzing a combination of service exchange records from the three largest hOurworld timebanks with over 3,500 members with 33,000 completed service…
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Achieving Privacy, Efficiency and Fault Tolerance in Aggregate Computations on Massive Star Networks
This paper describes how Shamir secret sharing can be used for efficient fault-tolerant privacy preserving aggregation in a star topology, i.e., a massive number of participants connected to a single…
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Finding the Adaptive Sweet Spot: Balancing Compliance and Achievement in Automated Stress Reduction
We built DStress (Design for Stress), a theoretically grounded system that sets adaptive goals in three coaching dimensions: Exercise, Meditation and Accessibility.
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Multiplexed flow assay based on absorption-encoded beads with compact read-out
For advanced diagnostics there is a strong need to simultaneously detect and quantify multiple biomarkers in a sample.
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The Neurobiology of Sleep and Wakefulness
Control of sleep and wakefulness involves multiple systems, each of which presents vulnerability to sleep/wake dysfunction that may predispose to physical and/or neuropsychiatric disorders.
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Screening for Trauma in Early Adolescence: Findings from a Diverse School District
The current study examines the prevalence of trauma experiences and traumatic stress in middle school students from a large urban school district serving a high proportion of diverse immigrant and…
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A Wearable and Mobile Intervention Delivery System for Individuals with Panic Disorder
This paper presents steps towards a mobile and wearable system that aims to help reduce the severity of symptoms experienced by individuals with panic disorder.
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Improving robustness against reverberation for automatic speech recognition
In this work, we explore the role of robust acoustic features motivated by human speech perception studies, for building ASR systems robust to reverberation effects.
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Topside Equatorial Ionospheric Density, Temperature, and Composition under Equinox, Low Solar Flux Conditions
We present observations of the topside ionosphere made at the Jicamarca Radio Observatory in March and September 2013, made using a full-profile analysis approach.
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Name-aware language model adaptation and sparse features for statistical machine translation
We propose approaches improving statistical machine translation (SMT) performance, by developing name-aware language model adaptations and sparse features, in addition to extracting nameaware translation grammar and rules, adding name phrase…
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Radar Detectability Studies of Slow and Small Zodiacal Dust Cloud Particles. II. A Study of Three Radars with Different Sensitivity
We expand on a new methodology developed by Janches et al. to test the ability of powerful radars to detect the meteoroid populations in question.
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Clinicopathological Features and Prognostic Implications of Raf Kinase Inhibitor Protein Downregulation in Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma
In the present study, the expression of RKIP in 85 pairs of TSCC and corresponding adjacent non-cancerous tissues, 30 matched metastatic lesions from the cervical lymph nodes and 32 oral…