I am interested in the application of signal processing and communications techniques to the smart environment sensing and activity detection systems. In particular, I am analyzing how viewing the sensing and activity detection processes as a communications channel (wherein the activities are the "data" to be transmitted and the action of sensing introduces distortion) can be used to improve smart home sensing techniques and algorithms. I hope that such an analysis, including the incorporation of mathematical formulations commonly used in the communications field, can also provide alternative methods of analyzing smart home data. Other areas of interest include the use of data compression techniques in sensing and classification algorithms, sensor fusion techniques, and sensor energy conservation methods.