Short Biography

Corey E. Baker will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering in Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC) starting January 2024. Baker is also an Application and Framework Engineer in Health and Research Products at Apple Inc where he works on medical and research frameworks such as CareKit and ResearchKit. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky (UK) until December 2023. He directs the Network Reconnaissance (NetRecon) Lab where his research investigates full stack systems for distributing, protecting, and authenticating data in opportunistic networking scenarios for rural remote patient monitoring, smart cities, and natural disasters to improve the livelihood of people. He evaluates real-world applications of opportunistic delay tolerant networks (DTNs), software defined networks (SDNs), and human centered design to empower device-to-device (D2D) social networks for crowd sourcing information. Leveraging opportunistic communication provides complementary solutions to traditional networks which are typically dependent upon centralized infrastructures such as the Internet.

Professor Baker received a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University (SJSU), a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida (UF) under the supervision of Professor Janise McNair. After completion of his graduate studies, Baker was a University of California Presidents Postdoctoral Fellow in the Qualcomm Institute at the University of California San Diego under the mentorship of Tara Javidi and Ramesh Rao. Baker was later a Visiting Scholar in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at the University of Southern California under the mentorship of Bhaskar Krishnamachari.

If you would like to learn more about Professor Baker’s mentoring and community activities, please visit coreyebaker.com.

Dr. Baker use to blog about graduate school and fellowships. Feel free to learn more here.

Academic Positions

  • 2024 Assistant Professor

    Electrical & Computer Engineering
    University of Southern California

  • 2018 - 2023 Assistant Professor

    Computer Science
    University of Kentucky

  • 2017 Visiting Scholar

    Electrical & Computer Engineering
    University of Southern California

  • 2015-2017 UC President's Postdoc Fellow

    Qualcomm Institute
    University of California San Diego

Selected Awards

Network Reconnaissance (NetRecon) Lab Research Projects

The Network Reconnaissance (NetRecon) Lab is directed by Professor Corey E. Baker. The NetRecon Lab conducts research in the area of cyber physical systems specializing in opportunistic wireless communication for the Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities, smart homes, and mobile health environments. Our research is situated in the evaluation and real-world application of delay tolerant networks (DTNs), mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs), and software defined networks (SDNs) to empower device-to-device (D2D) social networks for crowd sourcing information. Leveraging D2D communication provides complementary solutions to traditional networks which are typically dependent upon centralized infrastructures such as the Internet. The goal of our research is to make data accessible in the midst of intermittent and poor connectivity while minimizing delay.

Selected Publications

More Publications

Note: Assessing Cancer Patient Usability of a Mobile Distress Screening App

In ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS), 2022
Donawa, Alyssa and Powell, Christian and Wang, Rong and Chih, Ming-Yuan and Aronoff-Spencer, Eliah and Baker, Corey E
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Designing a Framework for Remote Cancer Care Through Community Co-design: Participatory Development Study

J Med Internet Res, 24(4): 29492, 2022
Äronoff-Spencer, Eliah and McComsey, Melanie and Chih, Ming-Yuan and Hubenko, Alexandra and Baker, Corey and Kim, John and Ahern, David K and Gibbons, Michael Christopher and Cafazzo, Joseph A and Nyakairu, Pia and Vanderpool, Robin C and Mullett, Timothy W and Hesse, Bradford W
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Enabling Opportunistic Low-cost Smart Cities By Using Tactical Edge Node Placement

In 2021 16th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS), 2021 (Selected as a top paper)
Madamori, Oluwashina and Max-Onakpoya, Esther and Erhardt, Gregory D and Baker, Corey E
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Augmenting Cloud Connectivity with Opportunistic Networks for Rural Remote Patient Monitoring

In 2020 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2020 (Acceptance: 24.9%)
Max-Onakpoya, Esther and Madamori, Oluwashina and Grant, Faren and Vanderpool, Robin and Chih, Ming-Yuan and Ahern, David K and Aronoff-Spencer, Eliah and Baker, Corey E
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Scaling Blockchains to Support Electronic Health Records for Hospital Systems

In 2019 10th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), 2019
Donawa, Alyssa and Orukari, Inema and Baker, Corey E
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How the Pathway to Engineering Affects Diversity in the Engineering Work-force: A Silicon Valley Case Study

In ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA, 2015
Baker, Corey E and Dunnavant, J and McNair, J
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Teaching

Current and previous courses

Interested in Joining the Lab?

The NetReconLab is always looking for motivated students