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, 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)
  • Curt Schurgers, Vijay Raghunathan, Mani B. Srivastava, "Power Management for Energy-Aware Communication Systems," accepted for ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems.
  • Curt Schurgers, Gautam Kulkarni, Mani B. Srivastava, "Distributed On-Demand Address Assignment in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.13, No.10, pp. 1056-1065, Oct. 2002.
  • Curt Schurgers, Vlasios Tsiatsis, Saurabh Ganeriwal, Mani B. Srivastava, "Optimizing Sensor Networks in the Energy-Latency-Density Design Space," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing , Vol.1, No.1, pp. 70-80, Jan.-March 2002.
  • Vijay Raghunathan, Curt Schurgers, Sung Park, Mani B. Srivastava, "Energy-Aware Wireless Microsensor Networks," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol.19, No.2, pp. 40-50, March 2002.
  • Curt Schurgers, Francky Catthoor, Marc Engels, "Memory Optimization of MAP Turbo Decoder Algorithms," IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Vol.9, No.2, pp. 305-312, April 2001.
  • Paul Lettieri, Curt Schurgers, Mani B. Srivastava, "Adaptive Link Layer Strategies for Energy Efficient Wireless Networking," Wireless Networks, Vol. 5, No. 5, ACM/Baltzer, pp. 339-335, 1999. 

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