Research Experience

Academic research positions and contributions.

Research Assistant — Wireless Sensing & Embedded Systems (WiSE) Lab

Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2013–2018

• Designed machine learning models and processing workflows for ultrasonic smart speaker systems capable of tasks ranging from room reconstruction to people counting and localization.
• Developed an embedded platform with the learning algorithms implemented and evaluated in real-world environments.
• Contributed to the development of real-time operating systems.

Research Assistant — Mobile and Vehicular Network Lab (MVNL)

National Taiwan University · Taipei, Taiwan · 2010–2012

• Developed predictive models and simulators in collaboration with Intel Labs to evaluate vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) applications.
• Conducted original research in vehicular networking, visible light communication (VLC), and visible light localization.

Publications

Peer-reviewed conference and journal papers.

1. O. Shih and A. Rowe. “Can a Phone Hear the Shape of the Room?” Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Montreal, Canada, Apr. 2019.
2. O. Shih, P. Lazik, and A. Rowe. “AURES: A Wide-Band Ultrasonic Occupancy Sensing Platform.” Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), Palo Alto, USA, Nov. 2016.
3. M. Buevich, X. Zhang, O. Shih, D. Schnitzer, T. Escalada, A. Jacquiau-Chamski, J. Thacker, and A. Rowe. “Microgrid Losses: When the Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts.” Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 7th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), Vienna, Austria, Apr. 2016.
4. P. Lazik, N. Rajagopal, O. Shih, B. Sinopoli, and A. Rowe. “ALPS: A Bluetooth and Ultrasound Platform for Mapping and Localization.” Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 2015.
5. O. Shih and A. Rowe. “Occupancy Estimation Using Ultrasonic Chirps.” Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 6th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), Seattle, USA, Apr. 2015.
6. S. Yu, O. Shih, H. Tsai, N. Wisitpongphan, and R. D. Roberts. “Smart Automotive Lighting for Vehicle Safety.” IEEE Communications Magazine, Dec. 2013.
7. O. Shih, H. Tsai, H. Lin, and A. Pang. “A Rule-Based Mixed Mobility Model for Cars and Scooters.” IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nov. 2011.

Teaching & Coursework

At Carnegie Mellon University.