Wantanee Viriyasitavat

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University Mobile: +1-412-***-****

Information

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www.andrew.cmu.edu/ wviriyas/

Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA

My main research interests are in the areas of mobile computing, mobile communica-

Research

tions, and wireless networks. My PhD research currently focuses on vehicular networks

Interest

(VANETs): developing a mobility model of urban vehicular tra c, studying and quan-

tifying network connectivity, and designing routing and transport control strategies for

such networks. Most of the work employs self-organized networking concepts to solve

large-scale networking problems.

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA

Education

Ph.D. student, Electrical and Computer Engineering (since July 2007)

Advisor: Professor Ozan K. Tonguz

Area of Study: Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

M.S./B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2006

University and Departmental Honors

Wireless network specialization (emphasis on intra-car wireless sensor networks)

Minor in Mathematics and Economics

GPA: 3.95/4.00

1) Viriyasitavat, W., Bai, F., and Tonguz, O. K. UV-CAST: An Urban Vehicular Broad-

Journal

cast Protocol IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on Automotive Network

Publications

Series. November 2011 (accepted for publication).

2) Tonguz, O. K., and Viriyasitavat, W. GV-CAST: A Generalized Vehicular Broadcast

Protocol for Vehicular Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. (To be

submitted)

3) Ferreira, M., Fernandes, R., Conceicao, H., Viriyasitavat, W., and Tonguz, O.K. The

Future of Tra c Lights. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. (To be submitted)

4) Viriyasitavat, W., Bai, F., and Tonguz, O. K. Dynamics of Network Connectivity in

Urban Vehicular Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications,

Special Issue on Vehicular Communications and Networkings. March 2010.

5) Tonguz, O. K., Viriyasitavat, W., and Bai, F. Modeling Urban Tra c: A Cellular

Automata Approach IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on Automotive

Network Series. May 2009.

1) Viriyasitavat, W., Bai, F. and Tonguz, O.K. UV-CAST: An Urban Vehicular Broadcast

Conference

Protocol. In: IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), December 2010.

Publications

2) Ferreira, M., Fernandes, R., Conceicao, H., Viriyasitavat, W., and Tonguz, O.K. Self-

organized Tra c Control. In: ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Inter-

Networking (VANET), September 2010.

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3) Viriyasitavat, W., Tonguz, O.K., and Bai, F. Network Connectivity of VANETs in

Urban Areas. In: IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and

Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), June 2009.

4) Tsai, H-M., Viriyasitavat, W., Tonguz, O.K., Saraydar, C., Talty, T., and Macdonald,

A. Feasibility of In-car Wireless Sensor Networks: A Statistical Evaluation. In: IEEE

Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications

and Networks (SECON), June 2007.

1) Ferreira, M., Tonguz, O.K., Fernandes, R., Conceicao, H., and Viriyasitavat, W. Meth-

Patent

ods, Apparatuses, and Systems for In-Vehicle Tra c Lights Enabled by Vehicle-to-

Vehicle Communication. (Submitted July 2010)

Carnegie Mellon University

Awards &

One (of the two) CMU-nominated applicant to Google PhD Fellowship Program,

Activities

2011.

ECE Research Assistant, 2007 present

Peer tutor, Academic Development, 2004 present

Graduate Vice President, Thai Students Association, 2008 2010

Participant, CRA-W Grad Cohort (Sponsored by Google and Microsoft), 2010

Campus Ambassador, Direct Energy, 2008.

Inducted to Tau Beta Pi Honor Society, 2006

Senior Leadership Award, 2006

Dean s list Award, 2002 2006

Other

Gold Medalist, Thailand Mathematics Olympics Camp 2000

Scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Thailand 2001 2006

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA 2005-2009

Teaching

Experience

Teaching Assistant for ECE 18-751: Applied Stochastic Processes.

- Fall 2008, Fall 2009

- Responsible for 1 hour recitation. Developed supplementary course material and

designed and graded homework.

Project Leader for ECE 18-756: Wireless Networks.

- Spring 2008

- Responsible for designing and supervising 4 projects ( 8 Master students) on

their class projects.

Grader for ECE 18-100: Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering

- Spring 2004, Spring 2005

Lab Assistant, SCS Habermann Computing classroom

- Fall 2003

- Supervision of 3.5 hour laboratory where undergraduate students learn how to

write JAVA programs.

Mahidol University, Bangkok Thailand 2006-2007

Faculty of Information and Communication Technology

Instructor for 2 courses: Local Area Networks (senior-level) and Computer data

Communication (junior-level).

- Responsible for teaching 3 hour lecture and supervision of class projects.

- Developed course material, including a course web page.

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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA

Selected Class

Projects

Cognitive State Classi cation with Magnetoencephalography Data Fall 2009

Applied machine learning techniques to classify human cognitive state based on

the monitored brain activity (MEG data)

VanWiFi: Internet Access for moving vehicles Spring 2008

Evaluated and designed algorithms to allow passengers in moving vehicles to

access the Internet through the publicly available WiFi access point.

Simulations were performed in CMU Wireless Emulator Lab

Feasibility of RFID-based Intra-car Wireless Sensor Network Spring 2006

Conducted real experiments (inside GM Buick car) to evaluate if the RFID-based

sensor networks is feasible and able to replace the current wired network inside

a car.

Improving MPEG-4 Spring 2005

Received the class outstanding award for designing an algorithm that o ered the

best improvement over MPEG-4 standard.

Network Modeling and Inference (Moura), Mobile and Pervasive Computing (Satya-

Relevant

narayanan, Siewiorek), Wireless Networks (Tonguz), Applied Stochastic Process (Tonguz),

Courses

Machine Learning (Bar-Joseph), Algorithm Design and Analysis (Blum), Network De-

sign and Evaluation (Steenkiste), Multimedia Communications: Coding, Systems, and

Networking (Chen), Wireless Communications (Negi), Digital Signal Processing (Stern),

Information Theory and Coding (Negi), Telecommunication Technology Policy and

Management (Sirbu), Introduction to Security and Policy (Perrig), Constrained Sta-

tistical Optimization (Apt, Talukdar), Intermediate Statistics (Wasserman), Numerical

Methods (Walkington), Real Analysis I&II (Leoni)

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