Clayton W. Shepard
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Contact Information


Email: cws@rice.edu
Phone: 505.480.6763

Rice University
23 Sunset Blvd.
Houston, TX 77005

I am a third year Ph.D. student at Rice University, where I also completed my B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2008. My research focus is Mobile Systems, however I have a wide array of interests, both academic and recreational. I am in the Rice Efficient Computing Group, which is led by my advisor, Lin Zhong. While the primary focus of the group is low power computing, we explore a wide range of topics including gesture recognition, human computer interaction, sensory computing, OLED displays, and cyber-physical systems. I am active in our collaboration with Motorola, where I have worked on social television and advanced advertising across heterogeneous platforms. I am currently working on novel wireless networking techniques that leverage large scale antenna systems.



I am originally from Albuquerque, NM, where I attended the Albuquerque Academy. Up until college I was very active in various organized sports, but now I can only manage to play pickup games every once and a while. In my spare time I enjoy socializing, particularly at Valhalla. As an associate at Jones College I remain active in the undergraduate Residential College system. You will not find much content on this site other than publications (hopefully), but you can check out my technical blog or personal page.

  • Clayton Shepard*, Ahmad Rahmati*, and Lin Zhong, "NoShake: Content stabilization for shaking screens of mobile devices," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom), March 2009. *Equal Contribution | (PDF)
  • Clayton Shepard, Chad Tossel, Ahmad Rahmati, Lin Zhong, and Phillip Kortum "LiveLab: Measuring Wireless Networks and Smartphone Users in the Field," to appear in Proc. Workshop on Hot Topics in Measurement & Modeling of Computer Systems (HotMetrics), June 2010.
  • Chad Tossel, Phillip Kortum, Clayton Shepard, Ahmad Rahmati, and Lin Zhong, "Assessing the Performance of Common Tasks on Handeld Mobile Computers," to appear in Proc. of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), September 2010.

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