Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs) for Ubiquitous Object Networking

Maria Gorlatova is a PhD Candidate in the Columbia University Electrical Engineering Department. Her research interests are in the area of networking ultra-low-power wireless devices. Maria received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Ottawa, Canada. Prior to joining Columbia?s PhD program Maria worked as a Research Scientist at Defence R&D Canada, and at Telcordia Technologies. Maria is a recipient of the Canadian Graduate Scholar (CGS) NSERC Fellowship and is a Columbia University Presidential Fellow.

The EnHANTs project (http://enhants.ee.columbia.edu) is a joint project of five faculty members from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Departments at Columbia University (http://www.columbia.edu) with expertise in energy harvesting, ultra low power communications, circuit design, and energy efficient networking. The project won the first prize in the Vodafone Americas Foundation 2009 Wireless Innovation Competition and has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Google.