My research interest currently center around PTIDES, or Programming Temporally Integrated Distributed Embedded Systems.
Specifically, I'm currently focusing on implementing PTIDES on the P1000 boxes supplied by Agilent.
The P1000 boxes are a set of embedded systems with the IEEE1588 communication standard implemented such that these boxes are synchronization within nano-seconds.
"Large-scale ordering of porous Si using anodic aluminum oxide grown by directed self-assembly"; Appl Phys Lett, 89, 9, (2006)