John-Austen Francisco

Department of Computer Science
Rutgers University


deymious [at] cs [dot] rutgers [dot] edu
 
Office:                 DATAMAN lab (CoRE 335)
Office Hours:     4pm to 5pm Wed.
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I'm a Doctoral student at Rutgers and my research interests include ubiquitous wireless networking, localization, web services, generalized clustering and small form factor applications.

I am currently working with Dr. R. Martin on: the electronic and mechatronic design and construction of computer numerically controlled hardware; the design and implementation of the software used to control these devices; the character and configuration of the platforms on which this software runs; and the composition of these elements with the analytical engines that work on the data they produce, all in order to increase the accuracy of radio-based indoor localization of wireless devices operating in the 2.4GHz unlicensed band. These devices will help us to improve the accuracy, portability, adaptability and universality of indoor localization so that it will be a useful and easily- deployed and integrated part of web services. As yet moving the indoor localization of wireless devices out of simulation and into actual devices has been relatively slow to happen and I am working to make the experimental physical, transport, and software models as powerful, general and as useful as possible.

While a graduate student I have been managing websphere developments for Student Services on the College Avenue Campus; evaluating, reorgnaizing and revitalizing all the web sites that fall under Student Services' purview and buliding web services and applications in order to speed the flow of information out and in. I've rebuilt all of Student Services' sites into a quick-change modular architecture, completely rewrote all of the Counseling Center's web pages and one of my own information distribution projects has become Student Services' brand-new 'Parents Office'. Valid CSS! Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional