John Stankovic

BP America Professor

Real-time computing, embedded computing, operating systems, wireless sensor networks, and large scale distributed computing.

John A. Stankovic received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1979 and then served on the faculty of University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He came to UVa as BP America Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science in 1997. Professor Stankovic is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the ACM, and he served on the Computing Research Association Board of Directors for nine years. He received an IEEE Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions and Leadership in Real-Time Systems, and an Outstanding Scholar Award from the University of Massachusetts. He was Co-Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Real-Time Systems, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Wireless Sensor Networks, Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems, and Book Series Editor for Real-Time Systems.

Stankovic's primary research interests are in the areas of real-time computing, embedded computing, operating systems, and ad hoc wireless sensor networks. He is investigating various approaches to real-time scheduling, including the development of a theory and practice of feedback control real-time scheduling. He is also involved with building a network virtual machine for wireless sensor networks, and is developing a component-based operating system and associated analysis tools for embedded systems.

• Lightweight Detection and Classification for Wireless Sensor Networks in Realistic Environments, L. Gu, D. Jia, P. Vicaire, T. Yan, L. Luo, T. He, A. Tirumala, Q. Cao, J. Stankovic, T. Abdelzaher, and B. Krogh, ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), November 2005, pp. 205-217.
• Security in Wireless Sensor Networks, A. Perrig, J. Stankovic, and D. Wagner, invited paper, Communications of the ACM, Volume 47, Number 6, June 2004, pp. 53-57.
• Impact of Radio Irregularity on Wireless Sensor Networks, G. Zhou, T. He, S. Krishnamurthy, and J. Stankovic, ACM Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (Mobisys), Bostan, MA, June 2004, pp. 125-138.
• Radio-Triggered Wake-Up Capability for Sensor Networks, L. Gu and J. Stankovic, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), May 2004, pp. 27-36. (Best Paper Award)
• Range-Free Localization Schemes for Large Scale Sensor Networks, T. He, C. Huang, B. Blum, J. Stankovic, and T. Abdelzaher, ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom), September 2003, pp. 81-95.