I am a principal researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond. I got my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. I got my Bachelor degree from the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh in 1998.

My research interests lie in the intersection of databases and distributed systems.

Awards

Best Paper, 10th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), 2012
Best New Investigator Paper, Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing, 2012 (Re: Michaela Götz)
Best Paper, 12th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), 2011
Best Paper, 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2008
Best Paper, 3rd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2006
Best Paper, 1st Workshop on Broadband Advanced Sensor Networks (BaseNets), 2004

uLink

Established: May 27, 2016

Historically, mobile apps didn’t have links equivalent to web deep links. Mobile deep links, introduced in recent years, don’t provide the same user experience of web URLs because they’re defined statically to navigate to a page for a given link, but not to dynamically generate a link for a given page. uLink is a new deep linking mechanism that brings the notion of web URLs to mobile apps. With uLink, users can bookmark links to…

SenseWeb

Established: December 10, 2008

SenseWeb is a peer produced sensor network that consists of sensors deployed by contributors across the globe. It allows developing sensing applications that use the shared sensing resources and our sensor querying and tasking mechanisms. SensorMap is one such application that mashes up sensor data from SenseWeb on a map interface, and provides interactive tools to selectively query sensors and visualize data, along with authenticated access to manage sensors.

GeoTrend: Spatial Trending Queries on Real-time Microblogs

Amr Magdy, Ahmed M. Aly, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He, Suman Nath, Walid G. Aref, in ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), ACM, October 31, 2016, View abstract, Download PDF

Appstract: On-The-Fly App Content Semantics With Better Privacy

Earlence Fernandes, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath, in ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'16), ACM, July 28, 2016, View abstract, Download PDF

MASHaBLE: Mobile Applications of Secret Handshakes over Bluetooth LE

Yan Michalevsky, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, in ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'16), ACM, July 28, 2016, View abstract, Download PDF

ALPS: Accurate Landmark Positioning at City Scales

Yitao Hu, Xiaochen Liu, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan, in ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2016), July 19, 2016, View abstract, Download PDF

WebPerf: Evaluating “What-If” Scenarios for Cloud-hosted Web Applications

Yurong Jiang, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan, in ACM SIGCOMM 2016, ACM, July 1, 2016, View abstract, Download PDF

uLink: Enabling user-defined deep linking to app content

Tanzirul Azim, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath, in 14th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems (MobiSys '16), June 23, 2016, View abstract, Download PDF

Venus: Scalable Real-time Spatial Queries on Microblogs with Adaptive Load Shedding

Amr Magdy, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Sameh Elnikety, Suman Nath, Yuxiong He, in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE, February 1, 2016, View abstract, Download PDF

Domino: Understanding Wide-Area, Asynchronous Event Causality in Web Applications

Ding Li, James Mickens, Suman Nath, Lenin Ravindranath, ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing conference (SOCC), August 1, 2015, View abstract, Download PDF

MAdScope: Characterizing Mobile In-App Targeted Ads

Suman Nath, in International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys'15), ACM, May 1, 2015, View abstract, Download PDF

My OS ought to know me better: In-app behavioural analytics as an OS service

Earlence Fernandes, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath, Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS), May 1, 2015, View abstract, Download PDF

Bloom Cookies: Web Search Personalization without User Tracking

Nitesh Mor, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath, John Kubiatowicz, in Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '15), February 1, 2015, View abstract, Download PDF

How to Smash the Next Billion Mobile App Bugs?

Ranveer Chandra, Börje Karlsson, Nicholas D. Lane, Mike Chieh-Jan Liang, Suman Nath, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Feng Zhao, in GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, ACM, January 1, 2015, View abstract, Download PDF

Per-App Profiles with AppFork: The Security of Two Phones with the Convenience of One

Temitope Oluwafemi, Earlence Fernandes, Oriana Riva, Franziska Roesner, Suman Nath, Tadayoshi Kohno, Microsoft Research, December 5, 2014, View abstract, Download PDF

Brahmastra: Driving Apps to Test the Security of Third-Party Components

Ravi Bhoraskar, Seungyeop Han, Jinseong Jeon, Tanzirul Azim, Shuo Chen, Suman Nath, Rui Wang, David Wetherall, Jaeyeon Jung, in USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX – Advanced Computing Systems Association, August 1, 2014, View abstract, Download PDF

Supporting Distributed Feed-Following Apps over Edge Devices

Badrish Chandramouli, Suman Nath, Wenchao Zhou, in International Conference on Very Large Databases, August 1, 2014, View abstract, Download PDF

Automatic and Scalable Fault Detection for Mobile Applications

Suman Nath, Jitu Padhye, Hari Balakrishnan, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, in The International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), ACM, June 1, 2014, View abstract, Download PDF

PUMA: Programmable UI-Automation for Large Scale Dynamic Analysis of Mobile Apps

Shuai Hao, Bin Liu, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan, William G.J. Halfond, in The International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), ACM, June 1, 2014, View abstract, Download PDF

DECAF: Detecting and Characterizing Ad Fraud in Mobile Apps

Bin Liu, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan, Jie Liu, in USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implemenentation, January 1, 2014, View abstract, Download PDF

Towards Scalable Automated Mobile App Testing

Ranveer Chandra, Börje Karlsson, Nicholas D. Lane, Mike Chieh-Jan Liang, Suman Nath, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research, January 1, 2014, View abstract, Download PDF

ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing

Suman Nath, in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE, August 1, 2013, View abstract, Download PDF

PACMan: Performance Aware Virtual Machine Consolidation

Alan Roytman, Aman Kansal, Sriram Govindan, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, in 10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), USENIX, June 26, 2013, View abstract, Download PDF

Prefetching Mobile Ads: Can advertising systems afford it?

Prashanth Mohan, Suman Nath, Oriana Riva, in Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '13), ACM, April 16, 2013, View abstract, Download PDF

Publicly Verifiable Grouped Aggregation Queries on Outsourced Data Streams

Suman Nath, Ramarathnam Venkatesan, in ICDE'13: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, International Conference on Data Engineering, April 1, 2013, View abstract, Download PDF

Algorithm Design for Performance Aware VM Consolidation

Alan Roytman, Aman Kansal, Sriram Govindan, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Microsoft Research, March 4, 2013, View abstract, Download PDF

Generic and efficient framework for search trees on flash memory storage systems

Mohamed Sarwat, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Xun Zhou, Suman Nath, in GeoInformatica, January 1, 2013, View abstract, Download PDF

SmartAds: Bringing Contextual Ads to Mobile Apps

Suman Nath, Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Jitu Padhye, in The 11th International Conference on Mobile Systems (MobiSys'13), January 1, 2013, View abstract, Download PDF

SPADE: Scalable App Digging with Binary Instrumentation and Automated Execution

Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, January 1, 2013, View abstract, Download PDF

Privacy-Aware Personalization for Mobile Advertising

Michaela Hardt, Suman Nath, in ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM, October 1, 2012, View abstract, Download PDF

ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing

Suman Nath, in MobiSys'12: The 10th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (Best Paper Award), ACM, June 1, 2012, View abstract, Download PDF

MASKIT: Privately Releasing User Context Streams for Personalized Mobile Applications

Michaela Goetz, Suman Nath, Johannes Gehrke, in SIGMOD'12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, ACM SIGMOD, May 1, 2012, View abstract, Download PDF

RACE: Real-time Applications over Cloud-Edge

Badrish Chandramouli, Joris Claessens, Suman Nath, Ivo Santos, Wenchao Zhou, in ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2012), ACM SIGMOD, May 1, 2012, View abstract, Download PDF

FAST: A Generic Framework for Flash-Aware Spatial Trees

Mohamed Sarwat, Mohamed F Mokbel, Xun Zhou, Suman Nath, , , in SSTD'11: 12th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (Best Paper Award), August 1, 2011, View abstract, Download PDF

ThermoCast: A Cyber-Physical Forecasting Model for Data Centers

Mike Chieh-Jan Liang, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Andreas Terzis, Christos Faloutsos, in KDD (ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, August 1, 2011, View abstract, Download PDF

Group-by Query Verification by Untrusted Clients on Outsourced Data Streams

Suman Nath, Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Microsoft Research, July 28, 2011, View abstract, Download PDF

Fuzzy Prophet: Parameter exploration in uncertain enterprise scenarios

Oliver Kennedy, Steve Lee, Charles Loboz, Slawek Smyl, Suman Nath, in SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data, ACM, January 1, 2011, View abstract, Download PDF

Jigsaw: Efficient optimization over uncertain enterprise data

Oliver Kennedy, Suman Nath, in SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, ACM, January 1, 2011, View abstract, Download PDF

Rethinking Database Algorithms for Phase Change Memory

Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath, in CIDR'11: 5th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, January 1, 2011, View abstract, Download PDF

Tracing Data Errors with View-Conditioned Causality

Alexandra Meliou, Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Suman Nath, Dan Suciu, in SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, ACM, January 1, 2011, View abstract, Download PDF

Privacy-aware Regression Modelling of Participatory Sensing Data

Hossein Ahmadi, Nam Pham, Tarek Abdelzaher, Suman Nath, Jiawei Han, Raghu Ganti, in SenSys'10: The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 1, 2010, View abstract, Download PDF

Subjective Sensing: Mission Statement and A Research Agenda

Jie Liu, Michel Goraczko, Aman Kansal, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Suman Nath, Bodhi Priyantha, Microsoft Research, July 1, 2010, View abstract, Download PDF

On-line Sensing Task Optimization for Shared Sensors

Arsalan Tavakoli, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, in IPSN 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 12, 2010, View abstract, Download PDF

DataGarage: Warehousing Massive Performance Data on Commodity Servers

Charles Loboz, Slawek Smyl, Suman Nath, in VLDB'10: The 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Very Large Data Bases Endowment Inc., January 1, 2010, View abstract, Download PDF

Fast Approximate Correlation for Massive Time-series Data

Abdullah Mueen, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, in SIGMOD '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., January 1, 2010, View abstract, Download PDF

Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples on Flash Storage

Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, in VLDB Journal, vol. 19, issue 1, Very Large Data Bases Endowment Inc., January 1, 2010, View abstract, Download PDF

PR-Join: A Non-Blocking Join Achieving Higher Early Result Rate with Statistical Guarantees

Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath, in SIGMOD '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., January 1, 2010, View abstract, Download PDF

Privacy-Preserving Reconstruction of Multidimensional Data Maps in Vehicular Participatory Sensing

Nam Pham Duc, Raghu Kiran Ganti, Md. Yusuf S Uddin, Suman Nath, Tarek Abdelzaher, in EWSN '2010: 7th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, Springer Verlag, January 1, 2010, View abstract, Download PDF

SenseWeb: An Infrastructure for Shared Sensing

Suman Nath, in US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (UKC), January 1, 2010, View abstract, Download PDF

Differentially Private Aggregation of Distributed Time-Series with Transformation and Encryption

Vibhor Rastogi, Suman Nath, Microsoft Research, November 1, 2009, View abstract, Download PDF

Instrumenting the Earth: Next-Generation Sensor Networks and Environmental Science

Michael Lehning, Nicholas Dawes, Mathias Bavay, Marc Parlange, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao, in The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, Microsoft Research, October 1, 2009, View abstract, Download PDF

Managing Massive Time Series Streams with Multi-Scale Compressed Trickles

Galen Reeves, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao, in VLDB '2009: Proceedings of 35th Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Very Large Data Bases Endowment Inc., August 1, 2009, View abstract, Download PDF

Cypress: Managing Massive Time Series Streams with MultiScale Compressed Trickles

Galen Reeves, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao, Microsoft, June 25, 2009, View abstract, Download PDF

Energy Efficient Sensor Data Logging with Amnesic Flash Storage

Suman Nath, in IPSN'09: Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., January 1, 2009, View abstract, Download PDF

Environmental Monitoring 2.0 (Demonstration)

Sebastian Michel, Ali Salehi, Liqian Luo, Nicholas Dawes, Karl Aberer, Guillermo Barrenetxea, Mathias Bavay, Aman Kansal, K. Ashwin Kumar, Suman Nath, Marc Parlange, Stewart Tansley, Catharine van Ingen, Feng Zhao, Yongluan Zhou, in 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., January 1, 2009, View abstract, Download PDF

Evaluation of Range Nearest-Neighbor Queries with Quality Guarantee

Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Joe Nap, Suman Nath, , in The 11th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), January 1, 2009, View abstract, Download PDF

GAMPS: Compressing Multi Sensor Data by Grouping and Amplitude Scaling

Sorabh Gandhi, Suman Nath, Subhash Suri, Jie Liu, in ACM SIGMOD, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., January 1, 2009, View abstract, Download PDF

Secure Outsourced Aggregation via One-way Chains

Suman Nath, Haifeng Yu, Haowen Chan, in ACM SIGMOD, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., January 1, 2009, View abstract, Download PDF

Unleash Stranded Power in Data Centers with Rack Packing

Lakshmi Ganesh, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Galen Reeves, Feng Zhao, Microsoft, January 1, 2009, View abstract, Download PDF

Unleash Stranded Power in Data Centers with RackPacker

Lakshmi Ganesh, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao, in Workshop on Energy-Efficient Design (in conjunction with ISCA), January 1, 2009, View abstract, Download PDF

SenseWeb: Sharing and Browsing Environmental Changes in Real Time

Liqian Luo, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao, in Microsoft eScience Workshop, Microsoft, December 9, 2008, View abstract, Download PDF

Sharing and Exploring Sensor Streams over Geocentric Interfaces

Liqian Luo, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao, in 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 5, 2008, View abstract, Download PDF

COLR-Tree: Communication Efficient Spatio-Temporal Index for a Sensor Data Web Portal

Yanif Ahmad, Suman Nath, in ICDE'08: 24th International Conference on Data Engineering, January 1, 2008, View abstract, Download PDF

Energy-aware server provisioning and load dispatching for connection-intensive internet services

Gong Chen, Wenbo He, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Leonidas Rigas, Lin Xiao, Feng Zhao, in NSDI'08: Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, USENIX Association, January 1, 2008, View abstract, Download PDF

SenseWeb: An Infrastructure for Shared Sensing

Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Feng Zhao, IEEE Computer Society Press, October 1, 2007, View abstract, Download PDF

Communicating via Fireflies: Geographic Routing on Duty-Cycled Sensors

Suman Nath, February 1, 2007, View abstract, Download PDF

On the Work Function Algorithm for two state task

Yossi Azar, Uriel Feige, Suman Nath, February 1, 2007, View abstract, Download PDF

Data Management in the Worldwide Sensor Web

Magdalena Balazinska, Amol Deshpande, Michael J. Franklin, Phillip B. Gibbons, Jim Gray, Suman Nath, Mark Hansen, Michael Liebhold, Alexander Szalay, Vincent Tao, in IEEE Pervasive Computing, IEEE Educational Activities Department, January 1, 2007, View abstract, Download PDF

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Suman Nath

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Carnegie Mellon University

Current Projects

SPADE: Scalable and Practical App Digging Engine

Program Chairs

Program Chair, Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2016
General Chair, Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2015

Program Committees

ACM SIGMOD: 2013, 2011(demo), 2010, 2008
VLDB: 2013, 2012
International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN): 2014, 2013, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007
ACM SenSys: 2010, 2007 (Demo Co-chair)
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE): 2014, 2011, 2010, 2008
SIG KDD: 2014 (Industry track), 2013
European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN): 2010, 2009
ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS): 2010, 2009
International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS): 2011 (track chair), 2008, 2007, 2006
Others: MobiSys’14, ICDCS’11, PAKDD’11, MobiDE’11 (General Chair), MobiDE’10 (Co-Chair), MDM’12, MDM’10, SSDBM’10, SUTC’10, MobiDE’09, PAKDD’09, NetDB’08, DSI’07 (Co-Chair), DMSN’07, SensorComm’07, ICCCN’07, BaseNets’05

Past projects

SenseWeb: Participatory sensing on the Web
Florage: Database algorithms for flash memory
DCGenome: Using sensing to understand and optimize data-center operations

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