User:Ktracton

Background

Located at the Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, Ken joined Nokia Research Center in September 2007; where he currently manages projects involving location based services.

Research Interests

Ken's current research interests are related to the ubiquitous use of privacy preserving location-based services.

Research Projects

Ken is the Research Leader of the (MISS) Mobile Internet Services Systems team at the Nokia Research Center Palo Alto. The MISS team ran the TrafficWorks project, making traffic data available to commuters utilizing state-of-art traffic-aware routing algorithms, personalized traffic information and a novel approach to dynamic traffic alerts. The fruits of this research have influenced the Location Based Services in Nokia's subsidiary NAVTEQ.

The MISS team is currently exploring collaboration on crowd sourcing of air quality data and spatial modeling of airborne pollutants.

Work History

Prior to joining Nokia, Ken led the software engineering group at MIPS Technologies Inc., managing both the simulator and performance teams. Ken was with Sun for 5 years working on processor influenced UNIX kernel optimizations and 5 years at Intel were he was the engineering manager for the x86 processor performance gathering and analysis team. Before joining Intel, at Adobe Systems Ken architected the first Acrobat PDF reader, he also wrote X-Res for Macromedia. Earlier he was with DEC Far East for more than a decade as software manager. Ken's doctoral dissertation was in topological isomorphism.