Jack Lin

M.S. Student, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Hi! My name is Jack Lin, and I am a M.S. student of the ECE Department at UCSC. I am primarily affiliated with my advisor Professor Colleen Josephson’s jLab, but I am also collaborating with Professor Katia Obraczka’s i-NRG to conduct research into visible light communication (also known as VLC or LiFi). My research interests are in embedded design and agricultural technology. Currently, I am involved in the Greener Greenhouses project, which explores the benefits of using visible light communication and radio frequency (RF) backscatter to minimize the environmental impact of greenhouse sensor networks (e.g. reduced power, battery-less design & lifespan, reduced cost). Prior to pursuing my M.S., I did my undergraduate here at UCSC and obtained my B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering in 2023.

 

Research

Project: Greener Greenhouses

Publications

B. G. Guzman et al., “Toward Sustainable Greenhouses Using Battery-Free LiFi-Enabled Internet of Things,” in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 129-135, May 2023, doi: 10.1109/MCOM.001.2200489.

Muhammad Sarmad Mir, Borja Genoves Guzman, Ambuj Varshney, and Domenico Giustiniano. 2021. PassiveLiFi: rethinking LiFi for low-power and long range RF backscatter. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom ’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 697–709. https://doi.org/10.1145/3447993.3483262

B. G. Guzman, M. S. Mir, D. F. Fonseca, A. Galisteo, Q. Wang and D. Giustiniano, “Prototyping Visible Light Communication for the Internet of Things Using OpenVLC,” in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 122-128, May 2023, doi: 10.1109/MCOM.001.2200642.

 

Resources

Greener Greenhouses Github: https://github.com/jlab-sensing/GreenerGreenHouses

OpenVLC: http://www.openvlc.org/