Former masters graduate student, Peter Xiang Gao, received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2013 Buildsys Workshop held recently in Rome, Italy. Gao's paper titled "Optimal Personal Comfort Management Using SPOT" is co-authored by S. Keshav and was presented at the 5th ACM Workshop On Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings.
Gao is currently pursuing a Ph.D at the University of California, Berkeley, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.