Tal Rusak

Department of Computer Science
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305
tal _at_ cs .dot. stanford .dot. edu

I am a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. I graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science Summa cum Laude in May 2009. My graduate studies are funded by the NDSEG and Tau Beta Pi fellowships and I was recognized as the 2009 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award Winner. My research has been funded by grants from the Bartels Family, Cisco Research, and Intel.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant, Cornell University Economics 2040 / Sociology 2090 / Computer Science 2850 / Information Science 2040, Networks (Profs. David Easley and Jon Kleinberg), Spring 2009
Teaching Assistant, Cornell University Computer Science 3810, Introduction to Theory of Computing (Prof. John Hopcroft), Fall 2008
Peer Tutor (CS 2110), Cornell University Engineering Learning Initiatives Program

Honors and Awards

National Defense Science and Engineering (NDSEG) Fellowship, funded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), 2009-2012
Tau Beta Pi Nagel Fellowship, 2009-2010
2009 Cornell Computer Science Prize for Academic Excellence
2009 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award Winner
Best Paper Award, ACM MSWiM'08
Winner of ACM Student Research Competition, ACM MobiCom'08
Winner of ACM Student Research Competition, ACM SIGCSE'08

Publications and Presentations (by Topic)

The Structure of Low-Power Wireless Networks

T. Rusak and P. Levis, "Physically-Based Models of Low-Power Wireless Links using Signal Power Simulation," in Elsevier Computer Networks--Special Issue on Selected Papers from MSWiM'08, 54(4):658-673, March 2010. Invited for publication.
T. Rusak and P. Levis, "On the Structure of Low-Power Wireless Links," Poster Presentation in the 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'09), April 2009.
T. Rusak and P. Levis, "Burstiness and Scaling in the Structure of Low-Power Wireless Links," in ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review, 13(1):60-64, Jan. 2009. Invited for publication from among the best posters at MobiCom'08.
T. Rusak and P. Levis, "Poster Abstract: On the Scaling Properties of Low Power Wireless Links," in Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'08), Nov. 2008.
T. Rusak and P. Levis, "Investigating a Physically-Based Signal Power Model for Robust Low Power Wireless Link Simulation," in Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM'08), Oct. 2008. Winner of Best Paper award. (Slides)
T. Rusak and P. Levis, "Burstiness and Scaling in Low Power Wireless Simulation," Poster Presentation in Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'08), Sept. 2008. First Place Winner of ACM Student Research Competition. (Slides)
T. Rusak, "Accurate, Scalable Simulation of TinyOS Sensor Networks using Physically-Based Noise and Signal Power Models," Poster Presentation in Proceedings of the 39th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE'08), Mar. 2008. First Place Winner of ACM Student Research Competition. (Slides)
T. Rusak, "Auditing the use of CPM for Long Term Reception Power Modeling in TOSSIM," in the 5th International TinyOS Technology Exchange (TTX V), Feb. 2008. (Slides)
T. Rusak, "Improving Simulation of Sensor Network Systems using the TOSSIM Simulator" at Bits On Our Minds (BOOM), Cornell University, Feb. 2008.

Simulation and Modeling of Sensor Devices

T. Rusak, A. Akturk, and N. Goldsman, "Numerical Modeling of Nanotube Embedded Chemicapacitive Sensors," in Proceedings of the 2007 International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium (ISDRS'07), Dec. 2007.
T. Rusak, "Computer Simulation of Biological and Chemical Micro- and Nano-Sensor Systems" at CEAA Conference, Cornell University, April 2007.
T. Rusak, "Modeling and Measurement of Biological and Chemical Micro- and Nano-Sensor Devices" at Bits On Our Minds (BOOM), Cornell University, Feb. 2007.

Computer Science and Engineering Education

T. Rusak, C. Barnes, G.S. Russ, V. Kam, and D. Gries, "CPAS: On the Structure and Usability of a Course Planning and Audit System," in Proceedings of the 116th Annual ASEE Conference & Exposition, June 2009.
T. Rusak, V. Kam, G.S. Russ, C. Barnes, and D. Gries. "On the Structure and Usability of a Course Planning and Audit System," in at Bits On Our Minds (BOOM), Cornell University, March 2009.
T. Rusak, "Undergraduate Research Project: Computer Modeling of Nanotube-Embedded Chemicapacitive Sensors," in the ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference, Nov. 2006. (Slides)