Omprakash Gnawali
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston
Education Stanford University, Computer Science, Postdoc, 2009-2011 University of Southern California, Computer Science, Ph.D., 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science, M.Eng., 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science, S.B., 2001 Experiences and Skills For CAIPHI Inc: Architect the emergency preparedness and HIPAA compliance online cloud-based software solution. Recruit and manage technical team. For LookAllure Inc: Built computer vision (image recognition) system and product information aggregation for LookAllure. The system is deployed on Amazon Web Services. Although, I am not the primary iOS developer, I also help build and debug LookAllure iOS application. For TinyOS: I chaired the network protocol working group for TinyOS during 2007-2012. TinyOS is an open source research operating system for sensor networks. I did code review of proposed additions to TinyOS. I contributed a network protocol to the project and the code has been used widely in research, education, and industry. Expert in Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, and Internet of Things technologies. Published more than 100 peer-reviewed research articles. Awards and Other Accomplishments Fourth place (out of 25 teams), 6.370 MIT IEEE/ACM Programming Competition, January 2001, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA First place (out of 400+ students), 6.001 Programming Competition, April 1998, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Best paper award for research paper in IPSN 2010 conference. I am a co-author of two Internet Engineering Task Force RFCs (RFC 6719 and RFC 6206).