Bio:
Sameer Pai received the B.S. degree (with highest honors) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University in 2003. From 2002 to 2003 he was employed as an Engineer in the Personal Communications Sector at Motorola Inc. Since Fall 2004, he has been a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University working with Professor Stephen B. Wicker in the Wireless Intelligent Systems Laboratory. From Summer of 2006 until Summer 2007, Sameer was an exchange scholar at UC Berkeley working with Professor Shankar Sastry and Professor Deirdre Mulligan. Sameer's broad research interests include wireless ad hoc networks, game theory, social networks and public policy on privacy. His current focus is on the mitigation of misbehavior in wireless sensor networks using trust and reputations as well as the impacts of security and public policy decisions on privacy issues in these networks. Sameer is also leading a multi-university, multi-disciplinary project in the development of a sensor network testbed at Cornell in conjunction with students from Cornell, Smith College and UC Berkeley. Sameer has been awarded a Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellowship, a Cornell Graduate Fellowship, a NSF Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention, a NSF IGERT Fellowship, and the UC Berkeley Phi Kappa Sigma Erdelatz Prize. Sameer is a student member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu and the IEEE.

Publications:
F. Hung, S. Pai, and I. Marsic, “Performance Modeling and Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function In Presence Of Hidden Stations,” In the IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM'06), October 2006, Washington, DC.

S. Pai, P. Kuryloski, H. Yip, S. Yennamandra, S. Wicker, K. Boehner, and G. Gay, “Networks Of Sensors In Public Spaces: Combining Technology With Art,” In the IEEE International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (UCI’07), May 2007, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

S. Pai, T. Roosta, S. Wicker, and S. S. Sastry, “Using Social Network Theory Towards Development Of Wireless Ad hoc Network Trust,” In the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Security in Networks and Distributed Systems (SSNDS'07), May 2007, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

P. Kuryloski, S. Pai, S. Wicker, Y. Xue, "MedSN System for In-Home Patient Monitoring: Architecture, Privacy and Security" In the Joint Conference on High Confidence Medical Devices, Software, and Systems (HCMDSS'07) and Medical Device Plug-and-Play Interoperability (MD PnP'07), June 2007, Boston, MA.

M. Meingast, S. Pai, S. Wicker, S. S. Sastry, "Privacy in Camera Networks, A Technical Perspective," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Technical Report UCB/EECS-2007-94, July 2007.

S. Pai, M. Meingast, T. Roosta, S. Bermudez, S. Wicker, D. Mulligan, and S. S. Sastry, "Confidentiality in Sensor Networks: Transactional Information," Submitted, October 2006, Revised August 2007, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine (Under Revision)

T. Roosta, S. Pai, P. Chen, S. S. Sastry, S. Wicker, "The Inherent Security of Routing Protocols in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks," In the 50th Annual IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM'07), November 2007, Washington, DC.

Posters:
“Virtual Campus Project,” author on poster in Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellow Poster Presentation, April 2003, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

“Social Issues in Information Technology for Healthcare,” co-author on poster in the NSF TRUST STC Winter Conference, January 2006, Washington D.C.

“TRUST Patient Portal Project: Real Time Patient Monitoring,” co-author on poster in the NSF TRUST STC Winter Conference, January 2006, Washington D.C.

“Combining Technology with Art,” co-author on poster in the NSF TRUST STC Winter Conference, January 2006, Washington D.C.

“TRUST Patient Portal Project,” co-author on poster in the NSF TRUST STC Site Visit, April 2006, Berkeley, CA.

“Privacy in Sensor Networks: Transactional Confidentiality,” co-author on poster in Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium & NSF TRUST STC Spring Conference, February & March 2007, Berkeley, CA.

“Reputation Systems For Sensor Networks: Towards Intelligent Design and Game Theoretic Analysis,” co-author on poster in Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium & NSF TRUST STC Spring Conference, February & March 2007, Berkeley, CA.

“A Sensor Network Testbed in a Public Museum Space,” co-author on poster in Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium & NSF TRUST STC Spring Conference, February & March 2007, Berkeley, CA.

"MedSN System For In Home Patient Monitoring," co-author on poster in NSF TRUST STC Spring Conference, March 2007, Berkeley, CA.

"Preserving Privacy in Wireless Sensor Network-based Information Systems," co-author on poster in NSF TRUST STC Spring Conference, March 2007, Berkeley, CA.