Thomas Schmid portrait
  • Associate Instructor, School Of Computing
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, School Of Computing

Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles. Project: Time in Wireless Embedded Systems
  • M.S., Systeme de Communication, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). Project: On Mac Layer and Bulk Transfers in Sensor Networks

Research Summary

Wireless Communication, Sensor Networks, Routing Strategies, Embedded Systems.

Biography

Thomas Schmid joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in January, 2011 as an assistant professor with research interests in wireless, embedded, and networked systems.

Prof. Schmid was previously a CI Fellows Post Doctoral Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2009, and was selected to receive the UCLA Elecrical Engineering Department's 2009-2010 Outstanding Doctor of Philosophy Award for his dissertation. His research interests involve the hardware-software boundary and its impact on energy consumption, including software radios, large scale sensing system architectures, and networking, with a focus on wireless embedded systems.