I'm done! I defended my dissertation on May 4, 2009. I'm currently working on a number of interesting projects, including a consulting engagement with Pattern Insight Inc., for whom I'm developing efficient, scalable algorithms and architectures for pattern-based search and analysis of source code and systems data. I'm always open to hearing about interesting new projects. You can contact me via email at sameer@sundresh.org

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For my Ph.D. thesis, I created and studied language constructs to express the interactions between program components operating at multiple different levels of abstraction. An important goal of this work is to be able to run program fragments in dynamic custom language contexts, which alter or specialize some language features. This is useful for applications such as automatic sandboxing and development of domain-specific languages.

In the past, I have worked on wireless sensor networks. Because they are deployed in the field and left unattended, sensor networks are a good example of an application domain for which better programming languages would be useful.

Several years ago, I developed the content management system for this very website you're reading (the design came from an earlier site prototype, however—I didn't even know CSS at the time).

As an undergraduate and in high school, I also did significant independent projects related to operating systems, virtualization, and low-level x86 programming. I continue to be interested in these topics, as well.

Please feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions or comments on my work, or interesting ideas you'd like to discuss.

Links:

λ-calculus with lexically-scoped dynamic variables, in Maude
Mote Experiment Data
SENS, a wireless sensor network simulator.
NEST project

Select publications

Kwon, YoungMin, Kirill Mechitov, Sameer Sundresh, WooYoung Kim, Gul Agha. "Resilient Localization for Sensor Networks in Outdoor Environments," Transactions on Sensor Network (TOSN) (To Appear), 2010. [pdf] [bib]
Sundresh, Sameer. "Request-Based Mediated Execution," University of Illinois, 2009. [pdf] [bib]
Sundresh, Sameer. "Communication Across Levels of Abstraction," Workshop on Event-Based Semantics (WEBS), 2008. [pdf] [slides] [bib]
Kwon, YoungMin, Sameer Sundresh, Kirill Mechitov, Gul Agha. "ActorNet: An Actor Platform for Wireless Sensor Networks," Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 1297-1300, 2006. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
Razavi, Reza, Kirill Mechitov, Sameer Sundresh, Gul Agha, Jean-Francois Perrot. "Ambiance: Adaptive Object Model-based Platform for Macroprogramming Sensor Networks," ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), 2006. [pdf] [poster] [bib]
Kwon, YoungMin, Sameer Sundresh, Kirill Mechitov, Gul Agha. "ActorNet: An Actor Platform for Wireless Sensor Networks," Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2005-2595, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
Sundresh, Sameer, YoungMin Kwon, Kirill Mechitov, WooYoung Kim, Gul Agha. "Localization of Sparse Sensor Networks Using Layout Information," Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2005-2525, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
Kwon, YoungMin, Kirill Mechitov, Sameer Sundresh, WooYoung Kim, Gul Agha. "Resilient Localization for Sensor Networks in Outdoor Environments," 25th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), pages 643-652, 2005. [pdf] [bib]
Kwon, YoungMin, Kirill Mechitov, Sameer Sundresh, WooYoung Kim, Gul Agha. "Resilient Localization for Sensor Networks in Outdoor Environments," Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2004-2449, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2004. [pdf] [bib]
Sundresh, Sameer, WooYoung Kim, Gul Agha. "SENS: A Sensor, Environment and Network Simulator," The 37th Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS37), Arlington, VA, April 21, 2004. [pdf] [ppt] [sxi] [bib]
Mechitov, Kirill, Sameer Sundresh, YoungMin Kwon, Gul Agha. "Cooperative Tracking with Binary-Detection Sensor Networks," Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2003-2379, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
Mechitov, Kirill, Sameer Sundresh, YoungMin Kwon, Gul Agha. "Cooperative Tracking with Binary-Detection Sensor Networks," First International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2003. [pdf] [bib]
Sundresh, Sameer, Gul Agha, Kirill Mechitov, WooYoung Kim, YoungMin Kwon. "Coordination Services for Wireless Sensor Networks," International Workshop on Advanced Sensors, Structural Health Monitoring and Smart Structures, 2003. [doc] [pdf] [bib]
Agha, Gul, WooYoung Kim, YoungMin Kwon, Kirill Mechitov, Sameer Sundresh. "Evaluation of Localization Services (Preliminary Report)," DARPA NEST Program, 2003. [pdf] [bib]