Nic Lane

I am a Researcher in the Mobile and Sensing Systems group at Microsoft Research Asia. Before joining Microsoft I received my Ph.D. at Dartmouth College where I was co-advised by Andrew T. Campbell and Tanzeem Choudhury.

My research interests revolve around people-centric sensing applications and systems. I am an experimentalist who likes to build prototype mobile sensing systems based on well-founded computational models.

Visit my publications page or google scholar profile for learn more about my work.

I can be reached at: niclane at microsoft dot com.

Mar '13	Two papers accepted to Mobisys 2013! 'MoodScope: Building a Mood Sensor from Smartphone Usage Patterns' -- joint work with Rice University; and, 'CarSafe App: Alerting Drowsy and Distracted Drivers using Dual Cameras on Smartphones' -- joint work with Dartmouth College.

Jan '13	I will be serving on the TPC for Sensys 2013 and Ubicomp 2013, please consider submitting!

	I am co-organizing the 3rd International Workshop on Mobile Sensing, this year the focus will be on the intersection of Big Data and Mobile Sensing. Both position papers and technical papers are welcome!

Nov '12	Our paper 'On the Feasibility of User De-Anonymization from Shared Mobile Sensor Data' was presented at PhoneSense '12

	Our paper 'The Visage Face Interpretation Engine for Mobile Phone Applications' won best paper at MobiCase '12.

Sept '12	Our paper 'Automatically Characterizing Places with Opportunistic CrowdSensing using Smartphones' won best paper at Ubicomp '12.

	I will be serving on the TPC for Mobisys 2013, please consider submitting!

	I gave talks at FIT ’12 and Aoyama Gakuin University. My first time to Japan!

Aug '13	I will be serving on the TPC for Pervasive Health 2013, please consider submitting!