Shwetak Patel, a Ph.D. candidate in the School ofInteractive Computing (SIC) took home the Best Paper Award from the PervasiveComputing 2008 conference, which was held May 19-22 in Sydney, Australia.
Professor Gregory Abowd, Patel's faculty adviser, and Matt Reynolds,former Senior Research Scientist in SIC and now assistant professor at DukeUniversity, contributed to the winning paper titled "Detecting HumanMovement by Differential Air Pressure Sensing in HVAC System Ductwork: AnExploration in Infrastructure Mediated Sensing."
Patel also won the Best Paper and Best Presentation awardsat Ubicomp 2007 and was nominated for best paper at the Pervasive Computingconference in 2006. In his five years as a graduate student at the College ofComputing, Patel has published nine full papers at these two top forums forresearch in ubiquitous computing.