Nic Lane

I am a Lead Researcher in the Mobile and Sensing Systems group at Microsoft Research Asia. Before joining Microsoft I received my Ph.D. at Dartmouth College where I was co-advised by Andrew T. Campbell and Tanzeem Choudhury.

My research interests revolve around people-centric sensing applications and systems. I am an experimentalist who likes to build prototype mobile sensing systems based on well-founded computational models.

Visit my publications page or google scholar profile to learn more about my work.

I can be reached at: niclane at microsoft dot com.

Oct '13	I am serving on the TPC for Ubicomp 2014 and WoWMoM 2014. Looking forward to seeing the latest breakthroughs from both academics and industry.


Sept '13	Our paper 'Piggyback CrowdSensing (PCS): Energy Efficient Crowdsourcing of Mobile Sensor Data by Exploiting Smartphone App Opportunities' has been accepted to Sensys '13.


	I am serving on the TPC for HotMobile 2014 -- please consider submitting your best early stage ideas.


Aug '13	Gave keynote -- "Smartphones, Crowds and the Cloud: Population Guided Sensing Systems" at HotPlanet '13, co-located with SIGCOMM 2013. I love Hong Kong!


July '13	Our paper 'Understanding the Coverage and Scalability of Place-centric CrowdSensing' has been accepted to Ubicomp '13.


	I co-organized, together with Andrew Campbell, a one-day tutorial on smartphone-based methods for social science as part of the 2013 Summer Institute in Social and Personality Psychology (SISPP '13) at UC Davis.