Mike Hazas

Introduction

• I am an academic fellow and lecturer in the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University.

Research Interests

• domestic energy and human practice
• mobile and ubiquitous systems
• real-world deployability for sensor systems
• location sensing
• audio and ultrasonic transducers and signal processing

Publications

• Oliver Bates, Adrian K. Clear, Adrian Friday, Mike Hazas, and Janine Morley. “Accounting for Energy-Reliant Services within Everyday Life at Home.” To appear in Proceedings of Pervasive 2012, Newcastle, May 2012.
• Carl Fischer, Poorna Talkad Sukumar and Mike Hazas. “Implementation of a pedestrian tracker using foot-mounted inertial sensors” [tutorial article]. IEEE Pervasive, to appear.
• James Scott, A.J. Bernheim Brush, John Krumm, Brian Meyers, Mike Hazas, Steve Hodges and Nicolas Villar. “PreHeat: Controlling Home Heating using Occupancy Prediction.” In Proceedings of UbiComp 2011: Thirteenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Beijing, September 2011.
• Janine Morley and Mike Hazas. “The Significance of Difference: Understanding Variation in Household Energy Consumption.” In Proceedings of the ECEEE 2011 Summer Study, Belambra Presqu'île de Giens, France, June 2011.
• Yukang Guo and Mike Hazas. “Localising Speech, Footsteps and Other Sounds using Resource-Constrained Devices.” In Proceedings of IPSN 2011: Tenth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Chicago, USA, April 2011.
• Carl Fischer, Kavitha Muthukrishnan and Mike Hazas. “SLAM for Pedestrians and Ultrasonic Landmarks in Emergency Response Scenarios.” In Advances in Computers, vol. 81, ed. Marvin V. Zelkowitz, 103–160. Burlington: Academic Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-12-385514-5.
• Mike Hazas, Adrian Friday and James Scott. “Look Back before Leaping Forward: Four Decades of Domestic Energy Inquiry.” IEEE Pervasive, volume 10, number 1, pages 13–19, Jan–Mar 2011.
• Carl Ellis and Mike Hazas. “A comparison of MDS-MAP and non-linear regression.” In Proceedings of IPIN 2010: International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, Zürich, Switzerland, September 2010. IEEE Xplore.
• Mohammed Alloulah and Mike Hazas. “An efficient CDMA core for indoor acoustic position sensing.” In Proceedings of IPIN 2010: International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, Zürich, Switzerland, September 2010. IEEE Xplore.
• Kavitha Muthukrishnan and Mike Hazas. “Position Estimation from UWB Pseudorange and Angle-of-Arrival: A Comparison of Non-linear Regression and Kalman Filtering.” In Proceedings of LoCA 2009: Fourth International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 5561, pages 222–239,Tokyo, Japan, May 2009.
• Rene Mayrhofer, Hans Gellersen, and Mike Hazas. “Security by Spatial Reference: Using Relative Positioning to Authenticate Devices for Spontaneous Interaction.” In Proceedings of UbiComp 2007: Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume 4717, pages 199–216, Innsbruck, Austria, September 2007.
• Mike Hazas and Rebecca Marsden. “Pervasive Computing and Tomorrow's Computer Scientists” (Education and Training column). IEEE Pervasive, volume 6, number 3, pages 90–93, July–September 2007.
• Albert Krohn, Mike Hazas, and Michael Beigl. “Removing Systematic Error in Node Localization Using Scalable Data Fusion.” In Proceedings of EWSN 2007: Fourth European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume 4373, pages 341–356, Delft, The Netherlands, January 2007.
• Mike Hazas and Andy Hopper. “Broadband Ultrasonic Location Systems for Improved Indoor Positioning.” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, volume 5, number 5, pages 536–547, May 2006.
• Urs Bischoff, Martin Strohbach, Mike Hazas, and Gerd Kortuem. “Constraint-based Distance Estimation in Ad hoc Wireless Sensor Networks.” In Proceedings of EWSN 2006: Third European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume 3868, pages 54–68, Zürich, Switzerland, February 2006.
• Mike Hazas, Christian Kray, Hans Gellersen, Henoc Agbota, Gerd Kortuem, and Albert Krohn. “A Relative Positioning System for Co-located Mobile Devices.” In Proceedings of MobiSys 2005: Third International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, pages 177–190, Seattle, USA, June 2005.
• Mike Hazas, James Scott and John Krumm. “Location-Aware Computing Comes of Age.” IEEE Computer, volume 37, number 2, pages 95–97, February 2004.
• James Scott and Mike Hazas. “User-Friendly Surveying Techniques for Location-Aware Systems.” In Proceedings of UbiComp 2003: Fifth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume 2864, pages 45–54, Seattle, USA, October 2003.
• Mike Hazas and Andy Ward. “A High Performance Privacy-Oriented Location System.” In Proceedings of PerCom 2003: First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, pages 216–223, Dallas-Fort Worth, USA, March 2003.
• Mike Hazas and Andy Ward. “A Novel Broadband Ultrasonic Location System.” In Proceedings of UbiComp 2002: Fourth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume 2498, pages 264–280, Göteborg, Sweden, September 2002.

Current PhD Students

• Oliver Bates
• Janine Morley
• Carl Ellis
• Yukang Guo
• Carl Fischer

Professional Activities

• Visiting Faculty, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, June–August 2009
• Poster co-chair, UbiComp 2008
• Invited speaker, INSS 2008
• Co-chair, SenSys 2007 Doctoral Colloquium
• PC membership: Ubicomp 2007/2009/2012, Pervasive 2007/2011/2012, EWSN 2007/2008/2009, LoCA 2005/2007/2009
• Invited Panelist on Localisation, WMCSA 2006
• Visiting Faculty, Intel Research Cambridge, December 2005
• Programme Co-chair, LoCA 2006 (Proceedings published as Springer LNCS 3987)
• (Co-organizer)
• Publicity Chair, UbiComp 2003
• Paper reviewer for UbiComp 2003–2006, Pervasive 2004–2006, MobiSys 2004/2006, WMCSA 2004, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Computer, IEEE Pervasive, Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
• Doctoral colloquium advisor/panelist at UbiComp 2004, Pervasive 2005
• “Embedded Broadband Ultrasonic Sensing for Robust and Scalable Positioning,” EPSRC EP/G008523/1, Apr 2009–Mar 2012
• “Relative Positioning of Mobile Objects,” EPSRC GR/S77097/1, Jan 2004–Dec 2006 (Co-investigator)

Teaching

• CSM031: Introduction to Computer Architecture and Distributed Systems, with François Taïani.
  Textbook: David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy. Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface. Morgan Kaufmann, third edition, 2005.
• CSC369: Embedded Systems, with Joe Finney and Andrew Scott.
  
• Headstart focus course on Computing: four-day summer residency programme for Year 12 students.
  
• CSC255: Computer Science Innovation Seminar. “Ubiquitous Technology: Theory, Practice, Criticism” (three-week seminar series)

PhD Research

• Research was carried out at the Laboratory for Communication Engineering from October 1999 through July 2002.
• My study at the University of Cambridge was made possible by a United States National Science Foundation graduate fellowship.
• Project advisor: Andy Ward
• Dissertation: “Indoor Location Systems” (submitted 23 July 2002, oral examination passed 21 October 2002).
• PhD degree conferred on 22 February 2003.

Master's Research

• During my first year at Cambridge (October 1998 through September 1999) I worked in the Signal Processing Group.
• Topics researched included:
  • Applications of wavelet/trigonometric transforms to digital audio signal processing
  • Denoising of audio signals
• My research supervisor in the group was Professor Peter Rayner.
• I earned an MPhil degree from the University of Cambridge for my first year's work.

MPhil Thesis: “Processing of Non-Stationary Audio Signals”

• Submitted August 1999.
• Addresses methods of using adaptive wavelet packet and local cosine transforms to perform audio denoising.
• Thesis Downloads
  • Postscripts
    Thesis and Errata, Compressed (1.18 MB, GZipped UNIX TAR format)
    
  • PDFs
    Thesis (1.8 MB)
    Errata (31 KB)
    

Undergraduate Education

• Graduated magna cum laude from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.A.) in May 1998
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering
• Area minors in Computer Science and Literature

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