Samuel Wood's Resume
Samuel Wood's Resume
Samuel Wood's Resume
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Samuel B. Wood
Research and development of novel content management technologies for volatile information centric networks (ICN). Designed and evaluated a utility-based content caching system for the DARPA CBMEN project (ICN at the tactical edge). Responsibilities include: project management, software development, and presentations to DARPA.
Research and development of core CBMEN content management technologies. Developed an interest-based content dissemination protocol for ecient routing in volatile networks. Developed UDP broadcast protocols for ecient content transport. Evaluated CBMEN technology on a testbed of 30 Android phones and network emulation.
Computer networks research, advised by Prof. J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves. Focus on non-ooding routing protocols and information centric networks. Previous work includes a technical report on ecient genomic data distribution and implementing and evaluating routing protocols in QualNet.
Software development of a web service for Apples iTunes Music Store (iTMS). Implemented a distributed analytics service that serves millions of users at rates exceeding thousands of requests per second. Extensive experience with Hadoop and JMS.
Web services research, advised by Prof. Papakonstantinou. Implemented the front-end for an automatic view maintenance framework for web applications. Extensive JavaScript, HTML and CSS programming.
Bio-medical research, advised by Prof. Kastner. Designed an FPGA prototype for real-time image analysis using optical mapping to track heart arrhythmia. Poster presentation at the International Workshop on Biomedical Systems Design 2010.
Software development with the analytics team responsible for instrumenting and A/B testing core Yahoo! properties such as Front Page. Worked independently to augment the PHP back-end to support instrumentation on AJAX pages.
Education
University of California, Santa Cruz Ph.D. Student, Computer Engineering, http://soe.ucsc.edu/sbwood September 2010 to Present
Graduate level coursework: Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Advanced Operating Systems, Information Theory, Algorithms, Computational Complexity, Computer Architecture, and Logic.
Phi Sigma Thetha Honor Society and National Society of Collegiate Scholars member. Provost Honors recipient (8 quarters). Undergraduate Research Conference 2010 speaker.
Publications
ICEMAN: a system for ecient, robust and secure situational awareness at the network edge. Samuel Wood, et. al. MILCOM 2013. Network coding for content-based intermittently connected emergency networks. Josh Joy, Yu-Ting Yu, Mario Gerla, Samuel Wood, et. al. MobiCom 2013. Extended failed-literal preprocessing for quantied boolean formulas. Allen Van Gelder, Samuel Wood, and Florian Lonsing. SAT 2012.