Mike Chen's Publications and Talks

I worked with some talented Ph.D. students at Intel Research Seattle, including: Jon Froehlich (UW), Keng-Hao Chang (UC Berkeley), and Tim Sohn (UCSD).

• Activity sensing in the wild: a field trial of ubifit garden
  by Sunny Consolvo, David W. McDonald, Tammy Toscos, Mike Y. Chen, Jon Froehlich, Beverly Harrison, Predrag V. Klasnja, Anthony LaMarca, Louis LeGrand, Ryan Libby, Ian E. Smith, James A. Landay
  CHI, 2008
• Towards Balanced Exercise Programs: Tracking Free-weight Exercises
  by Kenghao Chang, Mike Y. Chen, John Canny
  Ubicomp, Innsbruck, Austria, Sept 2007 (acceptance rate: 19%, 29/150)
• Yahoo! for Amazon: Sentiment Extraction from Small Talk on the Web
  by Sanjiv Das, Mike Y. Chen
  Management Science Journal, 2007
• MyExperience: A System for In Situ Tracing and Capturing of User Feedback on Mobile Phones
  by Jon Froehlich, Mike Y. Chen, Sunny Consolvo, Beverly Harrison, James Landay
  MobiSys, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2007 (acceptance rate: 21%, 22/105)
• Can Ferris Bueller Still Have His Day Off? Protecting Privacy in the Wireless Era
  by Ben Greenstein, Ramakrishna Gummadi, Jeffrey Pang, Mike Y. Chen, Tadayoshi Kohno, Srinivasan Seshan, David Wetherall
  HotOS, San Diego, CA, May 2007 (acceptance rate: 20%)
• Personalizing Routes
  by Kayur Patel, Mike Y. Chen, Ian Smith, James A. Landay
  UIST (acceptance rate: 22%), TechNote, Montreux, Switzerland, Oct 2006
• Practical Metropolitan-Scale Positioning for GSM Phones
  by Mike Y. Chen, Tim Sohn, Dmitri Chmelev, Dirk Haehnel, Jeffrey Hightower, Jeff Hughes, Anthony LaMarca, Fred Potter, Ian Smith, Alex Varshavsky
  Ubicomp (acceptance rate: 13%), Irvine, CA, Sept 2006
• 'Voting With Your Feet: An Investigative Study of the Relationship Between Place Visit Behavior and Preference
  by Jon Froehlich, Mike Y. Chen, Ian Smith, Fred Potter
  Ubicomp (acceptance rate: 13%), Irvine, CA, Sept 2006
• Mobility Detection Using Everyday GSM Traces
  by Tim Sohn, Alex Varshavsky, Anthony LaMarca, Mike Y. Chen, Tanzeem Choudhury, Ian Smith, Sunny Consolvo, William Griswold
  Ubicomp (acceptance rate: 13%), Irvine, CA, Sept 2006
• Improved Access Point Selection
  by Anthony J. Nicholson, Yatin Chawathe, Mike Y. Chen, Brian D. Noble, and David Wetherall
  MobiSys (15% acceptance), Uppsala, Sweden, June 2006
• Experiences with Place Lab: an Open Source Toolkit for Location-Aware Computing
  by Tim Sohn, William Griswold, James Scott, Anthony LaMarca, Yatin Chawathe, Ian Smith, Mike Y. Chen
  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (acceptance rate: 9%), Experience Track, Shanghai, China, May 2006
• Conducting In Situ Evaluations for and with Ubiquitous Computing Technologies
  by Sunny Consolvo, Beverly Harrison, Ian Smith, Mike Chen, Katherine Everitt, Jon Froehlich, and James A. Landay
  International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI), 2006
• Are GSM phones THE solution for localization?
  by Alex Varshavsky, Mike Y. Chen, Eyal de Lara, Jon Froehlich, Dirk Haehnel, Jeffrey Hightower, Anthony LaMarca, Fred Potter, Timothy Sohn, Karen Tang, and Ian Smith
  IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA) (acceptance rate: 25%), Semiahmoo Resort, Washington, USA, April 2006
• Developing Privacy Guidelines for Social Location Disclosure Applications and Services (Best Paper Award)
  by Giovanni Iachello, Ian Smith, Sunny Consolvo, Mike Chen, Gregory Abowd
  Symposium on Usable Privacy and Systems (SOUPS), CMU, July 2005
• A Statistical Learning Approach to Failure Diagnosis
  by Mike Chen, Alice Zheng, Jim Lloyd (eBay), Michael Jordan, and Eric Brewer
  International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), New York, NY, May 2004
• Path-based Failure and Evolution Management
  by Mike Chen, Anthony Accardi, Jim Lloyd, Emre Kiciman, Armando Fox, Dave Patterson, and Eric Brewer
  USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Francisco, CA, March 2004
  Slides (PDF 1.2MB)
• Automatic Failure-Path Inference: A Generic Introspection Technique for Software Systems
  by George Candea, Mauricio Delgado, Mike Chen, Fang Sun and Armando Fox
  IEEE Workshop on Internet Applications (WIAPP), San Jose, CA, June 2003
• Using Runtime Paths for Macroanalysis
  by Mike Chen, Emre Kiciman, Anthony Accardi, Armando Fox, and Eric Brewer
  HotOS IX - Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, Lihue, Hawaii, May 2003
• A Receiver-Driven Transport Protocol for the Web
  by Rajarshi Gupta, Mike Chen, Steven McCanne, and Jean Walrand
  Telecommunication Systems Journal Vol. 21:2-4, pp. 213-230, December 2002
• An Online Evolutionary Approach to Developing Internet Services
  by Mike Chen, Emre Kiciman, and Eric Brewer.
  Proceedings of SIGOPS European Workshop, Saint-Emilion, France, Sept 22-25, 2002.
• Pinpoint: Problem Determination in Large, Dynamic Systems
  by Mike Chen, Emre Kiciman, Eugene Fratkin, Armando Fox, and Eric Brewer
  Proceedings of International Performance and Dependability Symposium, Washington, DC, June 23-26, 2002
• Ninja: A Framework for Network Services
  by Eric Brewer, Nikita Borisov, Michael Chen, J. Robert von Behren, Matt Welsh, Josh MacDonald, Jeremy Lau, Steve Gribble, and David Culler
  Proceedings of USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Monterey, CA, June 10-15, 2002
• Active Connection Management in Internet Services
  by Mike Chen and Eric Brewer
  Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management (NOMS), Florence, Italy, April 14-17, 2002
• A Composable Framework for Secure Multi-Modal Access to Internet Services from Post-PC Devices
  by Steve Ross, Jason Hill, Mike Chen, Anthony Joseph, Dave Culler, and Eric Brewer.
  Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA), Monterey, California, December 7-8, 2000
• WebTP: A Receiver-Driven Web Transport Protocol
  by Rajarshi Gupta, Mike Chen, Steven McCanne and Jean Walrand
  Proceedings of INFORMS 2000 Telecommunications Conference Boca Raton, Florida, March 2000.
• Cha-Cha: A System for Organizing Intranet Search Results
  by Mike Chen, Marti Hearst, Jason Hong, and Jimmy Lin.
  Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS), Boulder, Colorado, October 11-14, 1999

Collaborators

• Gregory Abowd - Georgia Tech.
• Anthony Accardi - Tellme Networks
• Rob von Behren - UC Berkeley
• Eric Brewer - UC Berkeley
• Nikita Borisov - UIUC
• George Candea - Stanford
• Yatin Chawathe - Google
• Sunny Consolvo - Intel Seattle
• David Culler - UC Berkeley
• Sanjiv Das - Santa Clara Univ.
• Mauricio Delgado - Stanford
• Armando Fox - Stanford
• Jon Froehlich - U of Washington
• Steve Gribble - UW
• William Griswold - UCSD
• Rajarshi Gupta - UC Berkeley
• Marti Hearst - UC Berkeley
• Jason Hill - UC Berkeley
• Jason Hong - CMU
• Giovanni Iachello - Georgia Tech.
• Michael Jordan - UC Berkeley
• Anthony Joseph - UC Berkeley
• Emre Kiciman - Stanford
• Eyal de Lara - U of Toronto
• Jeremy Lau - UCSD
• Jimmy Lin - IBM Research
• Jim Lloyd - eBay
• Steven McCanne - UC Berkeley
• Anthony Nicholson - UMich
• Brian Noble - UMich
• Dave Patterson - UC Berkeley
• Fred Potter - U of Washington
• Steve Ross - UC Berkeley
• James Scott - Intel Cambridge
• Ian Smith - Intel Seattle
• Fang Sun - Stanford
• Karen Tang - CMU
• Jean Walrand - UC Berkeley
• Matt Welsh - Harvard
• David Wetherall - U of Washington
• Alex Varshavsky - U of Toronto
• Alice Zheng - UC Berkeley

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Email: firstname@ludic-labs.com

Education

• Ph.D. - UC Berkeley
• Management of Technology Certificate - Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
• M. Sc. - UC Berkeley
• B. Sc. - Univ. of British Columbia

Professional

• Ludic Labs
• Intel Research
• eBay
• Siemens Tech-to-Business Center
• Tellme Networks
• IBM Research
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Updated: Aug 21, 2008. © Copyright 2005-2008 Mike Chen. All rights reserved.