Christopher Cianci

EPFL ENAC IIE DISAL
Building GR Room A1 445
Station 2
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Phone: +41 21 693 68 93
Fax: +41 21 693 12 80
Email: chris (.) cianci (at) epfl (.) ch

Curriculum

B.S. 2003, Electrical & Computer Engineering, California Institute of Technology.
B.A. 2003, Physics, Occidental College.

Topics of Interest

Applying swarm intelligence to sensor and actuator networks, especially using threshold-based algorithms and other swarm-intelligent methods for distributed control. Of primary interest is the measuring/monitoring of spatially and temporally localized phenomena.

Past and ongoing areas of investigation include:

• Multi-level modeling of wireless sensor & actuator networks.
• Distributed monitoring of spatio-temporally unpredictable ephemeral events (i.e., acoustics).
• Mobility in sensor & actuator networks; robotic sensor networks.
• Resource allocation and power management in wireless sensor networks.
• Threshold-based & market-based algorithms.
• Automatic/adaptive deployment & re-configuration of robotic sensor networks.
• Environmental monitoring and modeling using wireless sensor networks.

Current Projects

Swarm-Intelligent Algorithms for Power and Information Management in Sensor Networks
The e-Puck educational robot
SwisTrack - Multi-Object Tracking Software for Robotics and Biology
Realistic Multi-Robot Simulation (Webots)