Research

My current research focuses on energy, smart buildings, sustainability, and distributed systems. A publication list is provided below (underlined coauthors indicate Bowdoin undergraduates). Citation statistics are available at Google Scholar.

If you are looking for the Smart* energy dataset, you can download the complete dataset here (note that I am most familiar with the 2013 release).

Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. Identifying Impactful Devices on Disaggregation Performance
   Sean Barker, Anna Leitner, and Andy Stoneman
   NILM 2022
   [pdf]
2. Smart Homes or Real Homes: Building a Smarter Grid with "Dumb" Houses
   Sean Barker and Dylan Parsons
   Pervasive Computing 2022
3. Powerstrip: High-Performance Compression for Energy Data
   John R. Ward and Sean K. Barker
   e-Energy 2020
   [pdf] [presentation] [code]
4. Exploiting Breadth in Energy Datasets for Automated Device Identification
   Sean Barker, Kyle Morrison, and Tucker Williams
   SmartGridComm 2019
   [pdf]
5. Building Virtual Power Meters for Online Load Tracking
   Sean Barker, Sandeep Kalra, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy
   TCPS 2019
   [pdf]
6. Pervasive Energy Monitoring and Control through Low-Bandwidth Power Line Communication
   Sean Barker, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy
   IoT 2017
   [pdf]
7. Managing Server Clusters on Intermittent Power
   Navin Sharma, Dilip Krishnappa, Sean Barker, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy
   PeerJ Computer Science 2015
   [pdf]
8. PowerPlay: Creating Virtual Power Meters through Online Load Tracking
   Sean Barker, Sandeep Kalra, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy
   BuildSys 2014
   Runner-up for Best Paper Award!
   [pdf]
9. Non-Intrusive Load Identification for Smart Outlets
   Sean Barker, Moaj Musthag, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy
   SmartGridComm 2014
   [pdf]
10. Empirical Characterization, Modeling, and Analysis of Smart Meter Data
    Sean Barker, Sandeep Kalra, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy
    J-SAC 2014
    [pdf]
11. ShuttleDB: Database-Aware Elasticity in the Cloud
    Sean Barker, Yun Chi, Hakan Hacigumus, Prashant Shenoy, and Emmanuel Cecchet
    ICAC 2014
    [pdf]
12. Improving the Scalability of Search in Networks Through Multiple Random Walks
    Mark S. Squillante, Don Towsley, and Sean Barker
    MAMA 2014
    [pdf]
13. NILM Redux: The Case for Emphasizing Applications over Accuracy
    Sean Barker, Sandeep Kalra, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy
    NILM 2014
    [pdf]
14. Non-Intrusive Occupancy Monitoring using Smart Meters
    Dong Chen, Sean Barker, Adarsh Subbaswamy, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy
    BuildSys 2013
    [pdf]
15. Empirical Characterization and Modeling of Electrical Loads in Smart Homes
    Sean Barker, Sandeep Kalra, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy
    IGCC 2013
    [pdf]
16. Smart*: An Open Data Set and Tools for Enabling Research in Sustainable Homes
    Sean Barker, Aditya Mishra, David Irwin, Emmanuel Cecchet, Prashant Shenoy, and Jeannie Albrecht
    SustKDD 2012
    [pdf] [dataset]
17. An Empirical Study of Memory Sharing in Virtual Machines
    Sean Barker, Timothy Wood, Prashant Shenoy, and Ramesh Sitaraman
    USENIX ATC 2012
    [pdf] [presentation]
18. "Cut Me Some Slack": Latency-Aware Live Migration for Databases
    Sean Barker, Yun Chi, Hyun Jin Moon, Hakan Hacigumus, and Prashant Shenoy
    EDBT 2012
    [pdf]
19. SmartCap: Flattening Peak Electricity Demand in Smart Homes
    Sean Barker, Aditya Mishra, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, and Jeannie Albrecht
    PerCom 2012
    [pdf]
    Appeared in Best Papers Session!
20. Exploiting Home Automation Protocols for Load Monitoring in Smart Buildings
    David Irwin, Anthony Wu, Sean Barker, Aditya Mishra, Jeannie Albrecht, and Prashant Shenoy
    BuildSys 2011
    [pdf]
21. Blink: Managing Server Clusters on Intermittent Power
    Navin Sharma, Sean Barker, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy
    ASPLOS 2011
    [pdf]
    Pick of the Month in June 2012 issue of IEEE Sustainable Computing Register!
22. Empirical Evaluation of Latency-sensitive Application Performance in the Cloud
    Sean K. Barker and Prashant Shenoy
    MMSys 2010
    [pdf]

Academic Reports

1. Model-Driven Analytics of Energy Meter Data in Smart Homes
   Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2014
   Advisors: Prashant Shenoy and David Irwin
   [pdf]
2. Kudzu: A Decentralized and Self-Organizing Peer-to-Peer File Transfer System
   Honors thesis, Williams College, 2009
   Advisor: Jeannie Albrecht
   [pdf]