Peer-reviewed articles
P. Seetharaman, S. P. Tarzia. The Hand Clap as an Impulse Source for Measuring Room Acoustics. In Proc. Audio Engineering Society 132nd Convention. April 2012. [app]
S. P. Tarzia. Acoustic sensing of location and user presence on mobile computers. Doctoral Dissertation and Technical Report NWU-EECS-11-09, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University. August 2011.
S. P. Tarzia, P. A. Dinda, R. P. Dick, G. Memik. Indoor Localization Without Infrastructure Using the Acoustic Background Spectrum. In Proc. 9th Intl. Conf. on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys’11). June 2011. pages 155-168. [slides]
S. P. Tarzia, P. A. Dinda, R. P. Dick, G. Memik. Demo: Indoor Localization Without Infrastructure Using the Acoustic Background Spectrum. In Proc. 9th Intl. Conf. on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys’11). June 2011. pages 385-386. [demo]
S. P. Tarzia, P. A. Dinda, R. P. Dick, G. Memik. Display Power Management Policies in Practice. In Proc. 7th Intl. Conf. on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ICAC’10). June 2010. pages 51-60. [slides]
S. P. Tarzia, R. P. Dick, P. A. Dinda, G. Memik. Sonar-based Measurement of User Presence and Attention. In Proc. 11th Intl. Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp’09). September 2009. pages 89-92. [slides]
S. P. Tarzia, R. P. Dick, P. A. Dinda, G. Memik. A Demonstation of Sonar-based Presence Detection. In Suppl. Proc. 11th Intl. Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp’09). September 2009. pages 158-159.
S. P. Tarzia, R. P. Dick, P. A. Dinda, G. Memik. Sonar-Based Measurement of User Attention. Poster presentation at USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX’09). June 2009. [poster]
S. P. Tarzia, R. P. Dick, P. A. Dinda, G. Memik. Prospects for Sonar-based Measurement of User Attentiveness. Technical Report NWU-EECS-09-06, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University. April 2009.
conference stats
paper acceptance rates:
MobiSys 2011: | 18% | ICAC 2010: | 26% | UbiComp 2009: | 12% |
Un-refereed reports
S. P. Tarzia. Little, Medium, and Big Data: Choosing Data Tools for Social Science Research. September 2017.
S. P. Tarzia, H. Zhou, R. P. Dick. Fast Voltage Assignment by Convex-cost Flow. Technical Report NWU-EECS-09-07, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University. April 2009
Room fingerprinting Mar 2009
Towards running parallel programs on the bare metal via virtualization Mar 2009
3D Circuit Integration Survey Mar 2008
Supervised floorplanning Mar 2008
Model-checking embedded systems with probabilistic nondeterminism Mar 2007
An Eleague Robocup Platform Dec 2004