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Evan Welbourne

Senior Researcher
Nokia Research Center Palo Alto

I'm a Senior Researcher at Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, and I work with the Personal Relevancy, Ranking, and Recommendation (PR3) team.

Research Interests

My primary research interests are at the intersection of sensor systems, data management, and HCI. Specifically, I design tools and data management infrastructure to support users in understanding and interacting with context-aware computing systems. My work is also strongly oriented toward user studies with web-based, mobile and sensor research platforms. A side interest has been in techniques for privacy protection in context-aware applications.

Research Projects

I'm currently working on a variety of projects that leverage or enhance Nokia Simple Context, a service designed to help users, researchers, and developers more easily collect, organize, and work with large amounts of dynamic mobile, social, and sensor data.

Prior to joining Nokia I was the lead grad student on the RFID Ecosystem project (http://rfid.cs.washington.edu) - a large-scale project at UW CSE that investigated issues with user-centered RFID systems in connection with applications, databases, privacy, security, and systems.
 

Current and past interns:

Personal Information

I have an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Washington as well as a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Toronto.

See my personal homepage at: 
http://www.evan-welbourne.com/

Other Information

Selected Press:

Publications

Welbourne, E., Balazinska, M., Borriello, G., Fogarty, J. Specification and Verification of Complex Location Events.
Pervasive 2010 (16.5% acceptance rate) 

Welbourne, E., Koscher, K., Soroush, E., Balazinska, M., Borriello, G. Longitudinal Study of a Building-Scale RFID Ecosystem.
MobiSys 2009 (20% acceptance rate)
 
Welbourne, E., Battle, L., Cole, G., Gould, K., Rector, K., Raymer, S., Balazinska, M., Borriello, G. Building the Internet of Things Using RFID: The RFID Ecosystem Experience. 
IEEE Internet Computing May/June 2009
 
Rastogi, V., Suciu, D., Welbourne, E. 
Access Control Over Uncertain Data.
VLDB 2008 (16.5% acceptance rate)
 
Welbourne, E., Khoussainova, N., Letchner, J., Li, Y., Balazinska, M., Borriello, G., Suciu, D. Cascadia: A System for Specifying, Detecting, and Managing RFID Events.
MobiSys 2008 (18% acceptance rate)
 
Welbourne, E., Balazinska, M., Borriello, G., Brunette, W. Challenges for Pervasive RFID-based Infrastructures.
PERTEC 2007 (10% acceptance rate) 
 
Pering, T., Want, R., Gardere, L., Vadas, K., Welbourne, E. Musicology: Bringing Personal Music into Shared Spaces. 
MobiQuitous 2007 (23% acceptance rate) 
 
Li, Y., Welbourne, E., Landay, J. Design and Experimental Analysis of Continuous Location Tracking Techniques for Wizard of Oz Testing.
CHI 2006 (23% acceptance rate) 

Presentations

Specification and Verification of Complex Location Events.
Pervasive 2010, May 2010, Helsinki, Finland

Longitudinal Study of a Building-Scale RFID Ecosystem.
MobiSys 2009, Jun 2009, Krakow, Poland 

Studying Next Generation RFID Applications in the Workplace. (Invited Talk) American Bar Association, Mid-Year Meeting
May 2009, Seattle, WA 

The RFID Ecosystem: RFID Data Management for Pervasive Computing. (Invited Talk - 1300 attendees!) 
EMC Innovation Conference, Oct. 2008, EMC HQ, Franklin, MA 

Privacy Research in the RFID Ecosystem Project. (Invited Talk) 
RFID CUSP Workshop, Jan. 2008, Baltimore, MD