Alan Mainwaring
Intel Research Berkeley
2150 Shattuck Ave., Suite 1300
Berkeley, CA 94704-1347 USA
T +1-510-495-3013
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alan.mainwaring@intel.com

Biography

Alan Mainwaring is a research scientist at Intel Research Berkeley. His current research interests include low-cost wireless technologies for developing regions, adaptive beam steering antennas for microwave and millimeter wavelength systems, and embedded network sensing in scientific and industrial applications. Before joining Intel, Mainwaring worked at Sun Microsystems Laboratories and at Thinking Machines Corporations on high-performance computing and massively parallel processors. He received his PhD and MS in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and a BA in Applied Mathematics from the University of Rochester.

Research

I am currently working on the Millimeter Wavelength Systems and Common Sense projects. Unofficially, although it has been several years since finishing the sensor network studies on Great Duck Island, I hope to be returning to coastal Maine again to work with colleagues at the College of the Atlantic and University of Maine on the wireless instrumentation of offshore wind farms to help understand the ecological impact of these green power sources. With colleagues at Cornell University, I am also interested in the idea of using migratory and atmospheric sampling instruments and the role of silicon photonics may play in creating a labs-on-a-chip that could accurately measure gas concentrations at different layers of the atmosphere across different regions of the earth.