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• June 2012: New paper: A Case For Automatic Sharing over Social Networks to be presented at the Proceedings of the First ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Hot Topics on Interdisciplinary Social Networks Research (HotSocial 2012), August 2012.
• March 2012: Loopt agreed to be acquired by Green Dot Corporation. More about the parent company and the acquisition.
• Jan 2012: New paper: Crowds replace Experts: Building Better Location-based Services using Mobile Social Network Interactions to be presented at PerCom 2012, Lugano, Switzerland on March 19-23, 2012.
• June 2011: Joined Loopt, a startup based in Mountain View, CA that connects people to the places around them via their smartphone. My primary work will involve analysis of large spatio-temporal datasets.
• May 10, 2011: Successfully defended my PhD thesis. Dissertation: Improving performance, privacy and relevance of location-based services for mobile users

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January 17, 2011: Paper on finding hierarchy in online social networks accepted at WWW 2011.
October 22, 2010: Attending NPUC 2010 at IBM Almaden Research Center. This year's theme is "Harnessing the Buzz of the Crowd: Technologies and Applications".
October 21, 2010: Will be giving an invited talk at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) on "Addressing Privacy and Cost in Location-based Services".
September 9, 2010: Will be presenting my work on "Privately Querying Location-based Services" at the IBM Workshop for Frontiers of Cloud Computing (F2C2) on Sep 9-10, 2010
March 30, 2010: Will be interning at IBM TJ Watson Research Center this summer.
March 8, 2010: Awarded the Bevier Dissertation Fellowship 2010-11. One of 12 awardees across all programs in Rutgers graduate school.

• A Case For Automatic Sharing over Social Networks, Pravin Shankar, Lu Han, Vancheswaran Ananthanarayanan, Matthew Muscari, B. Nath and L. Iftode. To apear in the Proceedings of the First ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Hot Topics on Interdisciplinary Social Networks Research (HotSocial 2012), August 2012.
• Crowds replace Experts: Building Better Location-based Services using Mobile Social Network Interactions, Pravin Shankar, Woody Huang, Paul Castro, Badri Nath, Liviu Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PERCOM 2012), March 2012.
• Finding Hierarchy in Directed Online Social Networks , Mangesh Gupte, Pravin Shankar, Jing Li, S Muthukrishnan, Liviu Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011), March 2011. Source Code
• Ad-hoc Voice-based Group Communication, Lu Han, Stephen Smaldone, Pravin Shankar, Liviu Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PERCOM 2010), March-April 2010.
• News Posting by Strategic Users in a Social Network (short paper), Mangesh Gupte, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Lu Han, Liviu Iftode, Pravin Shankar and Raluca Ursu. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE 2009), December 2009.
• Privately Querying Location-based Services with SybilQuery, Pravin Shankar, Vinod Ganapathy, Liviu Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2009), September-October 2009.
• CARS: Context Aware Rate Selection for Vehicular Networks, Pravin Shankar, Tamer Nadeem, Justinian Rosca, Liviu Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2008), October 2008.
• The Impact of DSRC Channel Switching on TCP Performance, Pravin Shankar, Liviu Iftode. Rutgers Technical Technical Report, July 2008.
• RoadSpeak: Enabling Voice Chat on Roadways using Vehicular Social Networks, Stephen Smaldone, Lu Han, Pravin Shankar and Liviu Iftode. In the Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Social Network Systems (SocialNets'08, in conjunction with EuroSys), April 2008.
• Effect of Antenna Placement and Diversity on Vehicular Network Communications, Sanjit Kaul, Kishore Ramachandran, Pravin Shankar, Sangho Oh, Marco Gruteser, Ivan Seskar, Tamer Nadeem. In Proceedings of the Fourth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2007), June 2007.
• A Comparative Study of Data Dissemination Models for VANETs, Tamer Nadeem, Pravin Shankar and Liviu Iftode. 3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services (MOBIQUITOUS 2006), July 2006.
• Indoor Localization Using Camera Phones, Nishkam Ravi, Pravin Shankar, Andrew Frankel, Ahmed Elgammal and Liviu Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA 2006), April 2006.

• Improving Privacy and Cost in Location-based Services, Invited talk at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), October 2010.
• Privately Querying Location-based Services with SybilQuery, the IBM Student Workshop for Frontiers of Cloud Computing , September 2010.
• Privately Querying Location-based Services with SybilQuery, the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2009), September-October 2009.
• CARS: Context Aware Rate Selection for Vehicular Networks, the 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2008), October 2008.
• A Content Delivery Protocol for Vehicles using Hybrid Wifi/3G Networks, The 3rd Helsinki-Rutgers PhD Student Workshop on Spontaneous Networking, Rutgers University, NJ, May 2008.
• Context Aware Rate Adaptation for Vehicular Adhoc Networks, The 2nd Helsinki-Rutgers PhD Student Workshop on Spontaneous Networking, Helsinki, Finland, May 28 - June 1, 2007.
• Designing an Inter-vehicular network stack for Car-to-Car communication, Phenix Workshop, IRISA, Rennes, France, December 2005.
• Service Creation and Execution Platform for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Telcordia Research, August 2005.