Rahul Mangharam

Stephen J. Angello Chair of Electrical & Systems Engineering

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering 

University of Pennsylvania

  My interests are in real-time architectures and scheduling algorithms for computing, communication and coordination of physical computing systems. These include embedded wireless control of industrial automation networks, medical sensor networks, vehicle-to-vehicle networks and social sensor networks. I am currently working on on-body embedded wireless systems for medical care so people can age gracefully. I also work on vehicle-to-vehicle networks with the goal of making driving safer, more efficient and of course, more fun.

  I am on the lookout for Ph.D. students and Post-docs to crack tough and interesting problems in Real-Time and Embedded Systems, Wireless Communication and Networking and in building the next generation of medical devices. If you have a strong background in algorithms, hardware design, mathematical foundations and OS programming in C/C++, send me your resume and a 250-word email.

Brief Bio:

  I completed my Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering in Feb 2008 from Carnegie Mellon University. My thesis was on "Real-Time Embedded Wireless Networks: Algorithms and Experiences" under the mentorship of Prof. Raj Rajkumar. I also did my BS and MS at CMU in 2000 and 2002 respectively.

In 2002, I was a member of the Ultra-Wide Band Wireless Group at Intel Labs. I was an international scholar in the Wireless Systems Group at IMEC, Belgium in 2003. It was a great experience with fun research, good friends and a lot of adventure. I have worked on ASIC chip design at FORE Systems (Marconi Communications) in 1999 and Gigabit Ethernet at Apple Computer Inc. in the summer of 2000.

  When I am not building systems, I love to revel off the beaten path & hike in the great outdoors. My goal is life is to introduce the underprivileged to creative technical education in systems that solve real problems.

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Selected Papers

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1. FireFly: A Cross-Layer Platform for Wireless Sensor Networks  
   [PDF]
   Rahul Mangharam, Anthony Rowe and Raj Rajkumar
   Real-Time Systems Journal, Special Issue on Real-Time Wireless Sensor Networks, 2007

2. MEERA: Cross-Layer Methodology for Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for Wireless Networks  
   [PDF, Transactions of Wireless Communications Journal PDF]
   Rahul Mangharam, Sofie Pollin, Bruno Bougard, Raj Rajkumar and Francky Catthoor
   INFOCOM 2005

3. GrooveNet: A Hybrid Simulator for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Networks  
   [PDF, Also Globecom/AutoNet Invited Talk Slides]
   Rahul Mangharam, D. S. Weller, R. Rajkumar, P. Mudalige and F. Bai
   Proceedings of Second ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad hoc Networks.
   Mobicom/VANET 2005

4. RT-Link: A Time-Synchronized Link Protocol for Energy Constrained Multi-hop Wireless Networks   [PDF]
   Anthony Rowe, Rahul Mangharam and Raj Rajkumar
   Third IEEE International Conference on Sensors, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks Reston, VA, September 2006
   IEEE SECON 2006 *Best Paper Award*