Aaron Beach
Aaron Beach is a member of the Data Analysis and Visualization Group in the Strategic Energy Analysis Center.
Energy Informatics Researcher
On staff since May 2011
Phone number: 303-275-3761
E-mail: aaron.beach@nrel.gov
Areas of expertise
- Energy Informatics
- Privacy and anonymity
- Mobile social networks
Primary research interests
- Semantic Web
- Anonymity
- Energy informatics
- Social informatics
Education and background training
- Ph.D. in computer science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 2011
- B.S. in computer science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2006
Prior work experience
- Founder & Chief Architect, Techoshark, inc., Boulder, CO (2008-2011)
- Visiting research specialist, NCAR, Boulder, CO (Summer 2007)
- Teacher assistant, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (2006-2008, 2010-2011)
- Research assistant, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (Summer 2006)
- Research assistant, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (2004-2006)
- Database programmer, Information Resources - McCormick School of Engineering, Evanston, IL (Summer 2003)
Other affiliations
- Executive board, Techoshark inc.
- Program committee, MCSN 2011
Selected publications and websites
D. Grunwald, A. Beach, K. Bauer and Q. Lv. (2010). "The Risks and Regulation of Location." 38th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC 2010). (bib)
A. Beach, M. Gartrell and R. Han. (2010). "q-Anon: Rethinking Anonymity for Social Networks." 2nd International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2010). (bib)
M Gartrell, X. Xing, Q. Lv, A. Beach, S. Mishra, K. Seada and R. Han. (2010). "Enhancing Group Recommendation by Incorporating Social Relationship Interactions." Proceedings of the 2010 international ACM conference on Supporting group work (Group 2010). (bib)
A. Beach, M. Gartrell, S. Akkala, J. Elston, J. Kelley, K. Nishimoto, B. Ray, S. Razgulin, K. Sundaresan, B. Surendar, M. Terada, and R. Han. (2008). "Whozthat? evolving an ecosystem for context-aware mobile social networks." IEEE Network, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 50–55, July-August. (bib)
A. Beach, M. Gartrell, X. Xing, R. Han, Q. Lv, S. Mishra, and K. Seada. (2010). "Fusing mobile, sensor, and social data to fully enable context-aware computing." ACM HOTMOBILE 2010. (bib)
Personal interests/hobbies
Brewing, bowling, traveling, gardening, history and classical music
