Alexander (Alex) Varshavsky Ph.D. University of Toronto Senior Member of Technical Staff AT&T Labs - Research 180 Park Avenue Florham Park, NJ, 07932 Fax: 973 236-2074 Email: varshavsky@research.att.com My new homepage is here:

I am interested in developing software infrastructure solutions for mobile and ubiquitous computing applications. My current research focuses on context-awareness and privacy preservation in mobile systems.

Recent Selected Papers: [Complete list of publications]

• TapPrints: Your Finger Taps have Fingerprints
  Emiliano Miluzzo, Alexander Varshavsky, Suhrid Balakrishnan, and Romit Roy Choudhury
  Tenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2012), Low Wood Bay, Lake District, United Kingdom, 2012 (acceptance rate 18%)
  

• Human Mobility Modeling at Metropolitan Scales
  Sibren Isaacman, Rick Becker, Ramon Cáceres, Margaret Martonosi, Jim Rowland, Alexander Varshavsky and Walter Willinger
  Tenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2012), Low Wood Bay, Lake District, United Kingdom, 2012 (acceptance rate 18%)
  

• Route Classification using Cellular Handoff Patterns
  Richard Becker, Ramon Caceres, Karrie Hanson, Ji Meng Loh, Simon Urbanek, Alexander Varshavsky and Chris Volinsky
  Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2011), Beijing, China, 2011 (acceptance rate 16%)
  

• ProxiMate: Proximity-based Secure Pairing using Ambient Wireless Signals
  Suhas Mathur, Robert Miller, Alexander Varshavsky, Wade Trappe, Narayan Mandayam
  Ninth Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2011), Washington D.C., USA, 2011 (acceptance rate 18%)
  

• Security versus Energy Tradeoffs in Host-Based Mobile Malware Detection
  Jeffrey Bickford, Andres Lagar-Cavilla, Alexander Varshavsky, Vinod Ganapathy, Liviu Iftode
  Ninth Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2011), Washington D.C., USA, 2011 (acceptance rate 18%)
  

• A Tale of One City: Using Cellular Network Data for Urban Planning
  Richard A. Becker, Ramon Caceres, Karrie Hanson, Ji Meng Loh, Simon Urbanek, Alexander Varshavsky, Chris Volinsky
  IEEE Pervasive Computing, special issue on Large-Scale Opportunistic Sensing, Vol. 10, No. 4, October-December 2011
  

• Identifying Important Places in People's Lives from Cellular Network Data
  Sibren Isaacman, Richard Becker, Ramon Caceres, Stephen Kobourov, Margaret Martonosi, James Rowland, Alexander Varshavsky
  Ninth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2011), San Francisco, USA (acceptance rate 24%)
  

Program Chair

• HotMobile 2013

Program Vice Chair

• PerCom 2012

Program Committee

• UbiComp 2012
• Pervasive 2012
• MobiSys 2012
• NetMob 2011
• MobiCase 2011
• MobiQuitous 2011
• IWSSI/SPMU 2011
• MCS 2011
• Pervasive 2011
• HotMobile 2011
• MCPT 2011
• Mobiquitous 2010
• MobiHeld 2010
• Pervasive 2010
• IWSSI/SPMU 2010
• UbiComp 2009
• MobiCASE 2009
• Mobiquitous 2009
• LoCA 2009
• HotMobile 2009
• SPMU 2008
• LoCA 2007

Organizing Committee

• Pervasive 2011 Workshops Chair
• HotMobile 2009 Poster/Demo Chair
• Pervasive 2009 Publicity Chair
• LoCA 2009 Publicity Chair
• MobiSys 2008 Publicity Chair
• Pervasive 2008 Publicity Chair
• HotMobile 2008 Publicity Chair
• Pervasive 2007 Publicity Chair