Blog | Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain, PhD

Recipient of Department Award

Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I was notified this afternoon that I have been chosen as the recipient of this year’s Doctoral Achievement Award from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University, which recognizes all around service to the department and University across research, service, and teaching components - specifically recognizing my published work across a number of high profile conferences, my service in mentoring students in the NISLAB and performance of TA work during COVID lockdowns, and multiple terms of service in various graduate student related organizations.

Collaborator work accepted into VLDB

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I am pleased to announce that work primarily led by our Maryland collaborators, Zeying Zhu and Prof. Zaoxing “Alan” Liu together with their assistant Kenny Wu, Approximation-First Timeseries Monitoring Query At Scale has been accepted into the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. The paper will be published as part of the current 2025-26 Volume 19 of the Proceedings, with Zeying having been offered an associated presentation slot at the VLDB conference in London in September.

Presenting at SIGMETRICS 2025

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I will be presenting our work Exploiting Kubernetes Autoscaling for Economic Denial of Sustainability at the 2025 ACM SIGMETRICS conference in Stony Brook, New York in June. This work, performed with my thesis advisor Prof. David Starobinski, our undergraduate lab assistant Jilin Zheng and our collaborators Prof. Zaoxing “Alan” Liu and Zeying Zhu of the University of Maryland Computer Science Department, deals with formulating Markov Decision Process-based models of Kubernetes scaling in a leader-follower game environment, and how varying factors contribute to the incentive to attack or not attack in terms of balance of rate of attacks vs relative cost, and balancing scaling vs SLA violations.

Oral Dissertation defense passed

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I successfully passed the oral defense of my doctoral dissertation Economic Frameworks for Spectrum Coexistence in Advanced Wireless Networks. I am currently spending the next few weeks completing paperwork and minor edits to the written document, as well as preparing for the 2025 DySpan conference in London.

PhD Defense Scheduled

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

My dissertation defense has been officially scheduled for Wednesday, April 9th, and my official graduation is currently set for May 18th, 2025.

Co-Authored work accepted into DySpan 2025

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Our work, Advancing Spectrum Sharing through Statistical Analysis of EESS-Passive Satellite Overpasses has been accepted into the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks in London in May. This work was led by our collaborators at the Ohio State ElectroScience Laboratory, Nicholas Brendle and his advisor Prof. Joel Johnson which is concerned with taking analyses of Earth Exploration Satellite Service-passive trace data and extrapolating the arrival and service patterns at multiple locations for the collection of satellites operating at the frequency of interest to derive statistical relationships between geographical location and arrival/service expectation to estimate without the need for exact information. We then take this information and consider the implications of the relation between location and the conclusions originally drawn from the previous feasibility analysis in our 2024 DySpan work to determine how location plays a role in the extent of spectrum co-existence (if one assumes commercial traffic levels consistent with the previous work are generally applicable).

Co-organizing BU CISE Graduate Student Workshop

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I am serving as a member of the student organizing committee for the 11th edition of the BU Center for Information and Systems Engineering’s Graduate Student Workshop, to be held this January. This student run event is one I have been previously involved with as a participant and an organizer and I am excited to be involved with again, as it offers the BU CISE community a chance to view their peers’ work and develop their presentation skills. In many cases this is a first opportunity to showcase work prior to presenting at external conferences.

Paper Accepted to Upcoming JSAC Special Issue

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Our work on Facilitating Spectrum Sharing with Passive Satellite Incumbents has been accepted into the upcoming special issue of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication on Integrated Ground-Air-Space Wireless Networks for 6G Mobile. This is work done in collaboration with [Prof Joel Johnson])(https://ece.osu.edu/johnson-joel) of the Ohio State ElectroScience Labratory, focusing on the interaction between commercial agents in a priority queuing system where purchasing is available as a means to jockey for position while also accommodating EESS-passive as the highest priority of user.

DySpan Best Paper Runner-Up, Policy Track

Wed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The work Spectrum Sharing between Earth Exploration Satellite and Commercial Services: An Economic Feasibility Analysis with my co-authors Prof. David Starobinski and Prof. Joel Johnson received the runner-up award for Best Paper on the Policy Track at the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySpan), as announced at the conference banquet.

I am currently open for work starting in Fall 2024

Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

With a projected graduation date of September 2024, I am currently on the job market for positions starting in Fall 2024. I am particularly interested in positions which have a focus on applied research in the fields of wireless communication, spectrum sensing, mixed-use sharing policies, and/or applications of edge computing in wireless networks. I am open to positions within academia, industry, or government agencies. The fastest way to reach me is via my personal or Boston University affiliated emails:

Collaboration work accepted to IGARSS

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Estimating the Retrieval Performance of Passive Remote Sensing Under Alternate Spectrum Sharing Scenarios has been accepted into the 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium in Athens in July. This is work led by our collaborators in the Ohio State ElectroScience Laboratory, Nicholas Brendle and [Prof Joel Johnson])(https://ece.osu.edu/johnson-joel), focusing on technical aspects of retrieval methods of Earth sensing satellites in the face of spectrum sharing which may alter availability of frequencies radiometers utilize to conduct their Brightness Temperature surveys.

Presenting at DySpan 2024

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I will be presenting my work Spectrum Sharing between Earth Exploration Satellite and Commercial Services: An Economic Feasibility Analysis at the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks in Washington DC on May 14. This work, performed with my thesis advisor Prof. David Starobinski and our collaborator Prof. Joel Johnson of Ohio State’s ElectroScience Laboratory, is concerned with the economic potential for spectrum sharing between passive Earth Exploration Satellite Service radiometers and commercial users on High Band portions of the electromagnetic spectrum.