Curt Schurgers  
 



 
               Current Affiliation
  Assistant Professor 
  UCSD, ECS Dept.
 
 
                 Contact Information 
  Office 1: 4312 Atkinson Hall (Calit2)
  Office 2: 4405 EBU1

  Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSD 
  9500 Gilman Dr.
  La Jolla, CA 92093-0407

  Email: email curt

  Tel.: +1-858-534-4865
  Fax.: +1-858-822-3427


Research
For current research projects and interests, visit our lab webpage:
                  Wireless Information Systems Lab (WISL)

To summarize, my current research interests roughly are:
  • underwater networking, and specifically efficient localization strategies
  • wireless ad-hoc networking, more specifically sensor networks, investigating topology control, data dissemination, link status, etc. problems 
  • energy-efficient wireless communications, under the umbrella of networked embedded systems, exploring techniques on the MAC, link and network layer
  • adaptivity in wireless networks
My background is probably in the intersection between communications (adaptive link layers, radio scaling, turbo coding), networking (sensor networks) and VLSI (turbo coding).


Education
April 1999 - November 2002 Ph.D. Electrical Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles
September 1992 - July 1997 M.S. Electrical Engineering,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , Belgium




Professional Experience
Sept. 2003 - current
(appointed July 2002)
 Assistant Professor
ECE Department, UCSD
January 2003-Sept. 2003 Postdoctoral Researcher, 
EECS Department, MIT
April 2002-June 2002 Lecturer (VLSI System Design)
EE Department, UCLA
April 1999-September 2002 Graduate Student Researcher, 
EE Department, UCLA
September 1998-December 1998 Teaching Assistant,
EE Dept., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
September 1997-April 2001 Graduate Student Researcher, 
Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC), Belgium
September 1997-December 1998 Teaching Assistant
EE Dept., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Awards & Honors
  • Hellman Faculty Fellowship, UCSD, 2008-2009.
  • Best paper award at IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom’07).
  • Hellman Faculty Fellowship, UCSD, 2006-2007.
  • Graduate Division Fellowship, EE Dept., UCLA, 2000-2002.
  • Francqui Fellowship, Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF), 1999-2000.
  • FWO Fellowship, Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Belgium, 1997-1999.

Selected Publications (complete list with links)
  • Shoubhik Mukhopadhyay, Debashis Panigrahi, Sujit Dey, Curt Schurgers, "Model based techniques for data reliability in wireless sensor networks," accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  • Diba. Mirza, Curt Schurgers, "Energy-efficient ranging for post-facto self-localization in mobile underwater networks," accepted for publication in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (Special Issue on "Underwater Wireless Communications and Networks"). 
  • Zhong-Yi Jin, Curt Schurgers, Rajesh Gupta, "An embedded platform with duty-cycled radio and processing subsystems for wireless sensor networks," accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems.
  • Periklis Liaskovitis, Curt Schurgers, "Energy consumption of multi-hop wireless networks under throughput constraints and range scaling," accepted for publication in ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review. 

Professional Service
  • TPC: Mobihoc'03, ISLPED'03, SECON'04, IPSN'05, SECON'05, IPSN'06, SECON'06, MASS'06, SECON'07, SECON'08, WUWNET'08.
  • NSF panelist 
  • Executive committee: SenSys'05 (local arrangements chair), SECON'07 (local arrangements chair), SECON'08 (publications chair).