Luis F. G. Sarmenta, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
MIT Media Lab
20 Ames Street
E15-388, Cambridge, MA 02139
Web: http://web.media.mit.edu/~lfgs/
Email: l f g s (at) mit . edu
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Luis F. G. Sarmenta, Ph.D. Research Scientist |
Interests and Experience: Mobile Computing, Technologies for the Developing World, Grid/Cloud Computing, Computer Security, Medical Computing, Social Computing and Computational Social Science, Education, etc.
Currently: Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab, and Technology Director, Next Billion Network.
Leading research on mobile
computing applications in both 1st and 3rd world contexts.
Current
focus areas: mobile apps for global empowerment,
and personal collective intelligence.
Co-founded and co-teaching the
NextLab program
(http://nextlab.mit.edu/).
Since 2008, has co-organized and advised over 15 projects with
partners in over 10 countries.
Previously, Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL (2005-2008). Led Trusted Computing research projects.
Founded AJWCC mobile R&D center at Ateneo de Manila University in 2003.
Led development of 30
commercialized mobile phone applications and services,
with
over 100,000 subscriptions, in just 2 years (2003-2005).
Then, co-founded BlueBlade, a for-profit startup corporation.
Teaching and research positions at Ateneo de Manila University and MIT since 1992.
Chair of Dept. of Information Systems & Computer Science, Ateneo de Manila (2002-2003).
Has held faculty positions at Ateneo de Manila University since 1992 (from Asst. Instructor to Asst. Professor). Currently in adjunct advisory role.
Has started, led, and collaborated on several award-winning research projects on mobile computing, grid computing, medical computing, e-learning, and other topics.
Has taught several courses at both Ateneo de Manila and MIT.
Industry consultant and independent software developer since 1988.
Consulted for Software Ventures International Corp. on business process outsourcing (BPO) projects for U.S. clients (2001-04).
Software Design Engineer (Intern) at Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA (1995).
Contributed to initial planning and implementation of PHNet (aka PhilNet), the first national Internet backbone of the Philippines (1993).
Wrote VIREX / VIR-X Plus, one of the most popular Philippine anti-viruses of its time, with over 14,000 individual licensees and several corporate licensees (1988-1993).
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001
Thesis: Volunteer Computing. Committee: Steve Ward (advisor), Charles Leiserson, Lynn Stein
Minor in Management, with courses at MIT Sloan School of Management (1997)
S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995
Thesis: Synchronous Communication Techniques for Rationally Clocked Systems. Advisor: Steve Ward
B.S. in Computer Engineering, 1993, magna cum laude, and the Departmental Award
B.S. in Physics, 1992, magna cum laude, and the Departmental Award
ASEAN
Young Scientists and Technologists Award.
Awarded by the
Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) only once every 3
years. Indonesian Presidential Palace, Jakarta, Aug. 2005.
2005
Outstanding Young Scientist Award (Electrical Engineering &
Computer Science).
Awarded by the Philippine National
Academy of Science and Technology, July 2005.
2003
NAST-DuPont Talent Search for Young Scientists Award.
Awarded by the
Philippine National Academy of Science and
Technology and DuPont Far East, Inc., July 2003.
Best NFC Service of the Year 2009. "Interactive Alerts for Childhood Pneumonia" [joint work with MIT students and Interactive Research & Development (IRD), Pakistan]. Awarded by the NFC Global Forum, Monaco, Apr. 2009.
SIMagine 2008 Innovation Award. "Medi-SIM: Medical Tools and Applications using SIM cards" [joint work with Mike Gordon, MIT]. Awarded by Gemalto NV at the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 2008.
Asian e-Learning Network (AEN) Award 2004. "An Enhanced Lecture Viewer for e-Learning" (video) [joint work with students from Ateneo de Manila University]. Asia e-Learning Network Conference, Singapore, Dec. 2004. (Also Notable Paper Award at the 3rd National Conference on e-Learning. Philippine e-Learning Society, Aug. 2004.)
Microsoft ".NET Best" Awards, Worldwide 1st place Winner, Academic Category (US $125,000 total prize value for the school). "Bayanihan Computing .NET: Grid Computing with XML Web Services" [joint work with student team from Ateneo de Manila University]. Awarded by Microsoft Corporation, USA, Aug. 2002.
ACM/IEEE CCGrid'01 Best Paper Finalist Award. "Sabotage-Tolerance Mechanisms for Volunteer Computing Systems." ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2001), Brisbane, Australia, May 2001. (Links: original / ppt / journal)
L.A. Celi, L. Sarmenta, J. Rotberg, A. Marcelo, and G. Clifford. "Mobile Care (Moca) for Remote Diagnosis and Screening" in Journal of Health Informatics in Developing Countries, 3(1), June 2009.
A. Marcus, G. Davidzon, D. Law, N. Verma, R. Fletcher, A. Khan, and L.F.G. Sarmenta. "Using NFC-enabled Mobile Phones for Public Health in Developing Countries." The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Near Field Communication (NFC ’09), Hagenberg, Austria, Feb. 2009.
V. Costan, L.F.G. Sarmenta, M. van Dijk, and S. Devadas. "The Trusted Execution Module: Commodity General-Purpose Trusted Computing." CARDIS 2008, London, UK, September 2008.
L.F.G. Sarmenta, M. van Dijk, J. Rhodes and S. Devadas. "Offline Count-Limited Certificates." ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008) Security Track, Fortaleza, Brazil, March 2008.
M. van Dijk, J. Rhodes, L.F.G. Sarmenta, and S. Devadas. "Offline Untrusted Storage with Immediate Detection of Forking and Replay Attacks." The 2nd ACM Workshop on Scalable Trusted Computing (ACM STC'07), at ACM CCS '07, Alexandria, VA, Nov. 2007.
Luis F. G. Sarmenta, Marten van Dijk, Charles W. O'Donnell, Jonathan Rhodes, and Srinivas Devadas. "Virtual Monotonic Counters and Count-Limited Objects using a TPM without a Trusted OS." The 1st ACM Workshop on Scalable Trusted Computing (STC'06), at ACM CCS '06, November 2006. (Also available in extended form as MIT CSAIL Technical Report 2006-064.)
E. Bagarinao, K. Matsuo, Y. Tanaka, L.F.G. Sarmenta, and T. Nakai. "Enabling On-Demand Real-Time Functional MRI Analysis Using Grid Technology." Methods of Information in Medicine, Vol. 44, No. 5. Schattauer GMBH (Publisher). Stuttgart, Germany, 2005.
E. Bagarinao, L.F.G. Sarmenta, Y. Tanaka, K. Matsuo, and T. Nakai. "The Application of Grid Computing to Real-Time Functional MRI Analysis." Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2004. (Presented at ISPA-2004 Second International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, Hong Kong, December 2004.)
Marco Dolcetto Mate, Darlene Mari Velasquez, and Luis F. G. Sarmenta. "An Enhanced Lecture Viewer for eLearning." AEN Award Paper at the Asia e-Learning Network Conference, Singapore, Dec. 2004. (Originally presented at the Philippine eLearning Society 3rd National Conference on eLearning, Manila, Aug. 2004, and won a Notable Paper Award, which led to the AEN Award.)
Matthew M. Sze, Aileen Lorraine C. Dy, and Luis F. G. Sarmenta. "Inexpensive Camera-based Gestural Interfaces for PCs." 4th Philippine Computing Science Congress, Los Baños, Feb. 2004.
L.F.G. Sarmenta, S.J.V. Chua, P. Echevarria, J.M. Mendoza, R. Santos, S. Tan, and R. Lozada. "Bayanihan Computing .NET: Grid Computing with XML Web Services." Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing on Large Scale Distributed Systems Workshop (GP2PC) at 2nd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid '02), Berlin, Germany, May 2002.
Luis F. G. Sarmenta. "Sabotage-Tolerance Mechanisms for Volunteer Computing Systems." Future Generation Computer Systems: Special Issue on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Vol. 18, Issue 4, March 2002. (Expanded version of a Best Paper Finalist paper presented at the ACM/IEEE Int’l Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2001), Brisbane, Australia, May 2001.)
Luis F. G. Sarmenta. "Studying Sabotage-Tolerance Mechanisms through Web-based Parallel Parametric Analysis and Monte Carlo Simulation." 2nd International Conference on Internet Computing, in conjunction with PDPTA 2001, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 25-28, 2001.
Luis F. G. Sarmenta. "An Adaptive, Fault-tolerant Implementation of BSP for Java-based Volunteer Computing Systems." Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1586, Springer-Verlag, 1999. pp. 763-780. (Presented at IPPS'99 Workshop on Java for Parallel and Distributed Computing, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Apr. 12-16, 1999.)
Luis F. G. Sarmenta, Satoshi Hirano. "Bayanihan: Building and Studying Volunteer Computing Systems Using Java." Future Generation Computer Systems: Special Issue on Metacomputing, Vol. 15, No. 5/6. Elsevier Publ., 1999.
Y. Yasu, H. Fujii, Y. Igarishi, E. Inoue, H. Kodama, A. Manabe, Y. Watase, Y. Nagasaka, M. Nomachi, S. Hirano, H. Takagi, K. Shudo, T. Arai, L.F.G. Sarmenta, C. Thomborson, R. Nicolescu, and M. Duc. "Evaluation of Gigabit Ethernet with Java/HORB." Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing In High Energy Physics (CHEP '98), Chicago, Illinois, September 1998.
Luis F. G. Sarmenta, Satoshi Hirano, Stephen A. Ward. "Towards Bayanihan: Building an Extensible Framework for Volunteer Computing Using Java." Concurrency: Practice and Experience, Vol. 10(11-13), 1015-1019 (1998). (Presented at ACM 1998 Workshop on Java for High-Performance Network Computing, Palo Alto, California, Feb. 1998.)
Luis F. G. Sarmenta. Bayanihan: "Web-Based Volunteer Computing Using Java." Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1368, Springer-Verlag, 1998. pp. 444-461. (Presented at the 2nd Int’l. Conference on World-Wide Computing and its Applications, Tsukuba, Japan, Mar. 1998.)
Luis F. G. Sarmenta, Gill A. Pratt, and Stephen A. Ward. "Rational Clocking." IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD '95), Austin, Texas, October, 1995.
E. Bagarinao, K. Matsuo, L.F.G. Sarmenta, Y. Tanaka, and T. Nakai. "The Medical Grid Project: Bridging the Computational Gap in Functional MRI Analysis." Proceedings of the 32nd Conference of the Japan Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Otsu City, Shiga, Japan, Sept., 2004.
E. Bagarinao, L.F.G. Sarmenta, Y. Tanaka, K. Matsuo, and T. Nakai. "Real-Time Functional MRI Analysis Using Grid Computing." 7th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Grid in Asia Pacific Region (HPC Asia 2004). Tokyo, Japan, July 2004.
Kai Huang, Charles E. Leiserson, and Luis F. G. Sarmenta. "A Media Player for Use in Distance Education." 4th Annual Singapore-MIT Alliance Symposium. Singapore, Jan. 2004.
Luis F. G. Sarmenta. "Bayanihan BSP: An Adaptively Parallel and Fault-tolerant Message-Passing API for Java-based Volunteer Computing Systems." ACM JavaGrande '99, San Francisco, CA, June, 1999.
M. van Dijk, L.F.G. Sarmenta, J. Rhodes, and S. Devadas. “Securing Shared Untrusted Storage by using TPM 1.2 without Requiring a Trusted OS.” MIT CSG Memo 498. May 2007.
M. van Dijk, L.F.G. Sarmenta, C.W. O'Donnell, S. Devadas. “Proof of Freshness: How to efficiently use an online single secure clock to secure shared untrusted memory.” CSG Memo 496. Sept 2006.
L.F.G. Sarmenta, M. van Dijk, C.W. O'Donnell, J. Rhodes and S. Devadas. “Virtual Monotonic Counters and Count-limited Objects using a TPM without a Trusted OS. (Extended Version).” MIT CSAIL TR-2006-064. Sept. 2006.
CiviRep: Mobile Citizen Reporting (for Caracas, Venezuela), Spr ‘09
Disaster Management (with Catholic Relief Services, India), Spr ‘08 – Fall ‘08
Reforestation Monitoring (with InnovGreen, Vietnam), Fall ‘08
FreePress (with HananTek, Bolivia), Spr ‘08
Mobile Rural Market Prices (with ITESM Zacatecas, Mexico), Fall ‘08 – Spr ‘09
Dinube: Mobile-enabled cloud transactions (for Mexico), Spr ‘09
Mobile Logistics Management (with Argos, Colombia), Spr ‘09
M-commerce Interface (with United Villages, India), Fall ‘08
Multilevel marketing for Microfinance (with COBIS, Ecuador), Fall ‘08
SMS for Trust-based Labor Markets (with Assured Labor, Brazil), Spr ‘08
Smart Micro-Loans (with India School Fund, India), Spr ‘08
Mosoko: Mobile Marketplace (with Nokia Research, Kenya), Spr ‘08
Celedu: Cellular + Education (with Development Alternatives Group, India), Spr ‘09
Telmex Fellows Forum (with Telmex, Mexico), Fall ‘08
Knowledge Box (with Beehive School, Malawi), Spr ‘08
Moca: Mobile Care remote diagnosis and screening (with Nat'l Telehealth Center, Philippines), Fall ‘08 – Spr ‘09
Boston BabyBlog (with Thrive in Five, Boston, USA), Fall ‘08
Cervical Cancer Screening (with Dimagi, Zambia), Spr ‘08
NFC and Mobile Phones for Pediatric Care (with IRD, Pakistan), Spr ‘08
News: "NFC Forum Global Competition 2009 Announces Winners" (April 2009)
News: "Indus Hospital and Nokia Pakistan implement surveillance system for pneumonia in Karachi" (March 2009)