AnaNikaMicrosoftBuilding32 annika@microsoft.com3620163rdAveNE http://www.ananika.net/Redmond,WA98052

EducationUniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,SantaBarbara,CA

DoctorofPhilosophy,ComputerScience 2017Dissertation:Measurement-drivenwirelessnetworkdesign

MasterofScience,ComputerScience 2015NationalandKapodistrianUniversityofAthens,Athens,Greece

MasterofScience,CommunicationSystemsandNetworks 2011Thesis:AnadaptiveverticalhandoverdecisionalgorithmbasedontheIEEE802.21standard

BachelorofScience,ComputerScience(ranked1st) 2007Thesis:StudyandsimulationofdecompositionandreconfigurationoftheUDTprotocol

AppointmentsMicrosoft,Redmond,WA 06/2017–presentSoftwareEngineer,YammerServicesTeamUniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,SantaBarbara,CA 09/2012–09/2016ResearchAssistant,Systems,Algorithms,Networking,andData(SAND)LaboratoryWorked on measurement-driven smartphone network design, energy profiling and optimization, spectrum monitoring, datahotspotsincellularnetworks,crowdsourcedsignalmeasurements,crowdsourcedmappingservices,andsocialnetworks.BellLabsIreland,Dublin,Ireland 06/2014–09/2014ResearchIntern,DataAnalyticsTeamWorkedonmeasurement-drivenanalysisofusercommunicationsinspecializedsocialnetworks.INRIA,SophiaAntipolis,France 03/2011–07/2011ResearchIntern,PlaneteTeamWorked on a new naming mechanism called Henna implemented to support intermittent node connections in heterogeneousnetworks.ExtendedtheHennasimulationcodeinNS-3andevaluateditsperformance.NationalandKapodistrianUniversityofAthens,Athens,GreeceResearchAssistant,ManagementofData,InformationandKnowledgeGroup 12/2008–02/2011Workedonuserinteroperabilityissuesfordigitallibraries.Surveyedexistingusermodelinteroperabilityapproachesandproposedtechniquestoreinforceinteroperabilityofusersindigitallibraries

Honors&AwardsN2WomenYoungResearcherFellowship(2016)Studenttravelgrants:UCSBAcademicSenate(2015),UCSBGraduateStudentAssociation(2015)OutstandingReviewerAward,GSWC,UCSB(2012)UniversityofCaliforniaPresident’sWork-StudyAward(2012-2013) ComputerScienceDepartmentMeritFellowship,UCSB(2011-2012)ClassValedictorian:ranked1stingraduatingclassandrecitedthegraduatingoath,NKUA(2008)

PublicationsJournalArticles[1] GangWang,BolunWang,TianyiWang,AnaNika,HaitaoZheng,BenY. Zhao. GhostRiders: SybilAttacksonCrowdsourced

MobileMappingServices.InACM/IEEETransactionsonNetworking(TON),2018.

[2] AnaNika,ZengbinZhang,BenY.Zhao,HaitaoZheng.TowardsPracticalSpectrumPermits. In IEEETransactionsonCognitiveCommunicationsandNetworking(TCCN),2017.

[3] AnaNika,AsadIsmail,BenY.Zhao,SabrinaGaito,GianPaoloRossi,HaitaoZheng.UnderstandingandPredictingDataHotspotsinCellularNetworks.InMobileNetworksandApplications,2016.

ConferenceandWorkshopPapers[4] Zhijing Li,Ana Nika, Xinyi Zhang, Yanzi Zhu, Yuanshun Yao, Ben Y. Zhao, Haitao Zheng. Identifying Value in Crowdsourced

WirelessSignalMeasurements.InProc.ofthe26thInternationalWorldWideWebConference(WWW),Perth,Australia,April2017.

[5] YanziZhu,YiboZhu,AnaNika,BenY.Zhao,HaitaoZheng.TrimmingtheSmartphoneNetworkStack.InProc.ofthe15thACMWorkshoponHotTopicsinNetworks(HotNets),Atlanta,Georgia,USA,November2016.

[6] AnaNika,ZhijingLi,YanziZhu,YiboZhu,BenY.Zhao,XiaZhou,HaitaoZheng. EmpiricalValidationofCommoditySpectrumMonitoring. In Proc. of the 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Stanford, CA, USA,November2016.

[7] GangWang,BolunWang,TianyiWang,AnaNika,HaitaoZheng,BenY.Zhao.DefendingagainstSybilDevicesinCrowdsourcedMappingServices.InProc.ofthe14thACMInternationalConferenceonMobileSystems,Applications,andServices(MobiSys),Singapore,Malaysia,June2016.

[8] AnaNika,YiboZhu,NingDing,AbhilashJindal,Y.CharlieHu,XiaZhou,BenY.ZhaoandHaitaoZheng.EnergyandPerformanceofSmartphoneRadioBundling inOutdoorEnvironments. InProc.of24th InternationalWorldWideWebConference(WWW),Florence,Italy,May2015.

[9] GangWang,BolunWang,TianyiWang,AnaNika,HaitaoZheng,BenY.Zhao.WhispersintheDark:AnalysisofanAnonymousSocialNetwork.InProc.ofthe14thACMSIGCOMMInternetMeasurementConference(IMC),VancouverBC,Canada,November2014.

[10] Ana Nika, Zengbin Zhang, Xia Zhou, Ben Y. Zhao, Haitao Zheng. Towards Commoditized Real-time SpectrumMonitoring. InProc.of1stACMWorkshoponHotTopicsinWireless(HotWireless),Maui,HI,September2014.

[11] AnaNika,Asad Ismail,BenY. Zhao, SabrinaGaito,GianPaoloRossi,HaitaoZheng.UnderstandingDataHotspots inCellularNetworks. In Proc. of 10th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security andRobustness(QShine),Rhodes,Greece,August2014.

[12] AnaNika, TizianaCatarci,Akrivi Katifori,GeorgiaKoutrika,NataliaManola,AndreasNürnberger,ManfredThaller.ModelingUsersandContext inDigitalLibraries: Interoperability Issues. InProc.ofthe2ndDL.orgWorkshopinconjunctionwiththe14thEuropeanConferenceonDigitalLibraries(ECDL2010),Glasgow,Scotland,2010.

[13] Ana Nika, Tiziana Catarci, Yannis Ioannidis, Akrivi Katifori, Georgia Koutrika, NataliaManola, AndreasNürnberger,ManfredThaller.ASurveyofContext-AwareCross-DigitalLibraryPersonalization.InProc.ofthe8thInternationalWorkshoponAdaptiveMultimediaRetrieval(AMR2010),Linz,Austria,2010.

[14] Katerina El Raheb, George Athanasopoulos, Leonardo Candela, Donatella Castelli, Perla Innocenti, Yannis Ioannidis, AkriviKatifori, Ana Nika, Stephanie Parker, Seamus Ross, Costantino Thanos, Eleni Toli, Giuseppina Vullo. Paving the way forInteroperability in Digital Libraries: The DL.org Project. In Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Qualitative andQuantitativeMethodsinLibraries(QQML2010),Crete,Greece,2010.

TechnicalReportsandOtherArticles[15] AnaNika,SofiaScataglini,SirineTaleb.MobiSys2015.IEEEPervasiveComputing,2015.[16] GeorgeAthanasopoulos,LeonardoCandela,DonatellaCastelli,KaterinaElRaheb,PerlaInnocenti,YannisIoannidis,ViviKatifori,

AnaNika,SeamusRoss,AliceTani,CostantinoThanos,EleniToli,GiuseppinaVullo.DigitalLibraryTechnologyandMethodologyCookbook.D3.4DL.orgProjectDeliverable,2011.

[17] Leonardo Candela, George Athanasopoulos, Donatella Castelli, Katerina El Raheb, Perla Innocenti, Yannis Ioannidis, AkriviKatifori,Ana Nika, Giuseppina Vullo, Seamus Ross. The Digital Library ReferenceModel. D3.2b DL.org Project Deliverable,2011.

[18] Ana Nika, Tiziana Catarci, Yannis Ioannidis, Akrivi Katifori, Georgia Koutrika, NataliaManola, Andreas Nurnberger,ManfredThaller. User-Centric Perspective on Digital Library Interoperability. Information Technology Section Newsletter of theInternationalFederationofLibraryAssociationsandInstitutions(IFLA),2010.

Posters[19] Zhijing Li,Ana Nika, Xinyi Zhang, Yanzi Zhu, Yuanshun Yao, Ben Y. Zhao, Haitao Zheng. Identifying Value in Crowdsourced

WirelessSignalMeasurements.The18thACMWorkshoponMobileComputing,Systems,andApplications(HotMobile),2017.

[20] GangWang,BolunWang,TianyiWang,AnaNika,HaitaoZheng,BenY.Zhao.DefendingagainstSybilDevicesinCrowdsourcedMappingServices.The14thACMInternationalConferenceonMobileSystems,Applications,andServices(MobiSys),2016.

[21] AnaNika,YiboZhu,NingDing,AbhilashJindal,Y.CharlieHu,XiaZhou,BenY.ZhaoandHaitaoZheng.EnergyandPerformanceofSmartphoneRadioBundlinginOutdoorEnvironments.InstituteforEnergyEfficiencyResearchReview,UCSB,2015.

[22] AnaNika, Zengbin Zhang, Xia Zhou,BenY. Zhao,Haitao Zheng. TowardsReal-timeSpectrumMonitoring.Graduate StudentWorkshoponComputing,UCSB,2015.

[23] AnaNika,StratosDimopoulos,DavidL.Johnson,ElizabethM.Belding.Time-ShiftingTraffictoImproveUtilizationinRuralAreaNetworks.CelebrationofWomeninComputinginSouthernCalifornia,SantaAna,USA,2012.

TeachingExperience[1] DataDrivenNetworkingandSystemsDesign,GuestLecturer,UCSB,Spring2016[2] IntroductiontoComputerScience,TeachingAssistant,UCSB,Fall2011/2012,Winter2012[3] ComputerOrganization,TeachingAssistant,UCSB,Spring2012[4] DL.orgAutumnSchool,Lecturer,UniversityofAthens,October2010[5] CommunicationNetworksI,TeachingAssistant,UniversityofAthens,Spring2010[6] DataStructures,TeachingAssistant,UniversityofAthens,Spring2008[7] IntroductiontoProgramming,TeachingAssistant,UniversityofAthens,Fall2007

ProfessionalActivities[1] IEEETransactionsonCognitiveCommunicationsandNetworking(TCCN),Reviewer,2017[2] IEEETransactionsonWirelessCommunications(TWC),Reviewer,2016,2017[3] JournalofMobileNetworksandApplications(MONET),Reviewer,2015[4] ACMSIGCOMMInternetMeasurementConference(IMC),ExternalReviewer,2015,2016[5] ACM/USENIXSymposiumonNetworkedSystems,DesignandImplementation(NSDI),ExternalReviewer,2014[6] GraduateStudentWorkshoponComputingatUCSB(GSWC),TechnicalProgramCommitteeMember,2014[7] Graduate Student Workshop on Computing at UCSB (GSWC), Technical Program Committee Member, Poster Committee

Member,andFinancialCoordinator,2012

CommunityServiceUndergraduateMentorship[1] DuBoisEventatUniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,2013[2] init(together)conferenceatUniversityofCalifornia,Irvine,2013.WomeninComputerScience[1] NetworkingNetworkingWomen(N2Women)BoardMember:SocialMediaCo-chair2014-2015[2] WomeninComputerScienceatUCSB:Co-president2012-2013

SelectedPress[1] IfyouuseWaze,hackerscanstalkyou,Fusion(4/2016)[2] HackerscanstalkyouviaWazeapp,Channel10CBSNews(4/2016)[3] VulnerabilityInPopularWazeNavigationAppCouldLetHackersStalkYouInRealTime,TechTimes(4/2016)[4] Wazedownplaysexploitthatletresearcherstrackusers,TechCrunch(4/2016)[5] FlawinmapsappWazeletshackerstrackyou,TheTelegraph(4/2016)[6] Here’sHowGoogle’sWazeCanReportedlyBeUsedtoStalkDrivers,Fortune(4/2016)[7] Wazehackletscreepstrackyourdriving,Engadget(4/2016)[8] MillionsofWazeuserscanhavetheirmovementstrackedbyhackers,Slashdot(4/2016)[9] WazeDriversCanBeTracked,NetworkFloodedwithFakeTraffic,Softpedia(4/2016)[10] WazeHackersHaveYouinTheirSights,TechNewsToday(4/2016)[11] WazeApp:TheRoadtoStalkingDrivers,InfosecurityMagazine(4/2016)[12] HackersCanExploitWazetoTrackDriversinRealTime,AndroidHeadlines(4/2016)[13] AtWhisper’snews-gatheringoperation,datacollectioncomesundersiege,LATimes,(10/2014)

Talks[1] Energy and performance of smartphone radio bundling in outdoor environments. The 24th InternationalWorldWideWeb

Conference,Florence,Italy,May2015.[2] Towardscommoditizedreal-timespectrummonitoring.The1stACMWorkshoponHotTopicsinWireless,Maui,Hawaii,USA,

September2014.[3] Understandingdatahotspotsincellularnetworks.The10thInternationalConferenceonHeterogeneousNetworkingforQuality,

Reliability,SecurityandRobustness,Rhodes,Greece,August2014.[4] Modeling Users and Context in Digital Libraries: Interoperability Issues. The 2nd DL.orgworkshopwithin the 14th European

ConferenceonDigitalLibraries,Glasgow,Scotland,UK,September2010.[5] A Survey of Context-Aware Cross-Digital Library Personalization. The 8th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia

Retrieval(AMR),Linz,Austria,August2010.