Research Group Technical Background

0203-EX-ST-2017 Applicant Eligibility

University of Washington

2017-02-15ELS_187907

Kurtis Heimerl Facebook +1 (206) 659-5878 1 Hacker Way, kheimerl s.washington.edu Menlo Park, CA 94025 http://kurti.sh Interests My research focuses on community-based systems across computer networks, international development, and crowdsourcing. Academic University of Washington 2016 Joining as an Assistant Professor in September 2016 University of California, Berkeley 2014 Postdoctoral Researcher Advisors: Eric Brewer and Tapan Parikh University of California, Berkeley 2013 Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science Thesis: Community Cellular Networks Advisors: Eric Brewer and Tapan Parikh University of California, Berkeley 2009 Master of Science, Computer Science Thesis: Metamouse: Improving Sharing of Existing Educational Applications University of Washington 2007 Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering (Magna Cum Laude) Research Community Cellular Networks University of California, Berkeley Investigated small-scale, locally owned cellular networks. Developed extensions to OpenBTS to enable more local content in network. Conducted longitudinal deployment of both technologies in rural Papua, Indonesia. Demonstrated sustainability of locally-owned cellular in Papuan context, as well as value to local community. Study and deployments ongoing. Communitysourcing University of California, Berkeley Investigated mechanisms for targeted specific offline communities of users with crowdsourcing tasks. Developed and deployed Umati, the Communitysourcing Vending Machine, a crowdsourcing kiosk. Using Umati, demonstrated ability to target specific crowds with rewards and tasks that fit those crowds. The Evil Telco University of California, Berkeley Produced OpenBTS installation for demonstrating cellular attacks against activists. Deployed this at Internet freedom organiza- tions and conferences, with participants from many different countries. Metamouse University of California, Berkeley Developed software that automatically converts single-player games into multiplayer games for areas with chronic computer sharing caused by lack of resources. Developed techniques for sharing and demonstrate that majority voting (e.g., requiring most students to agree on an answer) was the best solution in the face of varying computer proficiency. Awards MIT Technology Review “35 under 35” 2014 Best Paper at DySPAN 2014: GSM Whitespaces: An Opportunity for Rural Cellular Service 2014 Community Award at NSDI 2013: Expanding Rural Cellular Networks with Virtual Coverage 2013 Best Paper at CHI 2012: Communitysourcing: Engaging Local Crowds to Perform Expert Work Via Physical Kiosks 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 2008 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (Honorable Mention) 2007 Bob Bandes Memorial Teaching Award (Honorable Mention) 2005

Kurtis Heimerl 2 Selected Press Facebook Hires Founders Of Cellular-Network-In-A-Box Company Endaga Tech Crunch 2015 DIY Telecoms The Economist 2015 Endaga Brings Rural Villages Online With a Cell Network in a Box Re/code 2014 Kurtis Heimerl: 35 Innovators under 35 MIT Technology Review 2014 New Eavesdropping Equipment Sucks All Data Off Your Phone Newsweek 2014 Cellular’s Open Source Future is Latched to Tallest Tree in the Village Ars Technica 2014 Powered by the Sun, Telcos Open up Cellphone’s Final Frontier Reuters 2012 Teaching Experience University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA, 2013 Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB) Mentor for Cristine Dierk working on commu- nitysourcing and Mark Watt working on cellular security University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 2012 Lead Instructor of undergraduate class CS-194-22: Cellphones as a computing platform University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA, 2011 Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB) Mentor for Kehontas Rowe from Mills College working on communitysourcing. University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 2010 Graduate Student Instructor of graduate class CS-294-35: Cellphones as a computing platform under Professor Eric Brewer. University of Washington Seattle, WA 2006-2007 Teacher’s assistant for operating systems courses under Professors Ed Lazowska and John Zahorjan University of Washington Seattle, WA 2005 Teacher’s assistant for introductory computer programming courses under Professor Hal Perkins and Lecturer Stuart Reges. Academic Experience Program Committee: ICTD 2016 Program Committee: HotMobile 2015 Reviewer: CHI 2016 Program Committee: ICTD 2015 Reviewer: CHI 2015 Reviewer: UIST 2014 Program Committee: ACM DEV 2014 Program Committee: CHI Work-in-Progress 2014 Program Committee: ICTD 2013 Reviewer: CHI 2013 Program Committee: CHI Work-in-Progress 2013 Reviewer: UIST Demos 2012 Reviewer: ITID 2011

Kurtis Heimerl 3 Industry Experience Facebook Menlo Park, CA 2015-Present Endaga team and IP joined Facebook to continue their rural access initatives. Endaga, Inc Oakland, CA 2014-2015 Founder/CEO, focused on developing simple cellular networks that can be operated by anyone. Raised 1.2M seed round from investors such as Mitch Kapor, Jeff Hammerbacher, and Sanjit Biswas. Joined Facebook August 2015. Range Networks San Francisco, CA 2011-2014 Community Manager/Developer for open-source OpenBTS release. Microsoft Research India Bangalore, India 2007 Intern assisting with SMS and voice technologies for the Digital Study Hall distance learning project. Google.com Mountain View, CA 2007 Intern developing additions to the Hadoop map-reduce framework. Amazon.com Seattle, WA 2005,2006 Intern creating scalable, secure, and extensible service-oriented architecture components. Peer-reviewed Conference or Journal Publications A Longitudinal Study of Local, Sustainable, Small-Scale Cellular Networks Kurtis Heimerl, Shaddi Hasan, Kashif Ali, Eric Brewer, Tapan Parikh. Information Technologies & International Development (ITID) 2015 Analysis of Smartphone Adoption and Usage in a Rural Community Cellular Network Kurtis Heimerl, Anuvind Menon, Shaddi Hasan, Kashif Ali, Eric Brewer, Tapan Parikh. International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) 2015 Rescue Base Station Ibrahim Ghaznavi, Kurtis Heimerl, Umar Muneer, Abdullah Hamid, Kashif Ali, Tapan Parikh, Umar Saif. 5th Annual ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV) 2014 GSM Whitespaces: An Opportunity for Rural Cellular Service Shaddi Hasan, Kurtis Heimerl, Kate Harrison, Kashif Ali, Anant Sahai, Eric Brewer. IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN) 2014 (Best Paper Award) An Experiment in Reducing Cellular Base Station Power Draw With Virtual Coverage Kurtis Heimerl, Shaddi Hasan, Kashif Ali, Tapan Parikh, Eric Brewer. 4th Annual ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV) 2013 Local, Sustainable, Small-Scale Cellular Networks Kurtis Heimerl, Shaddi Hasan, Kashif Ali, Eric Brewer, Tapan Parikh. International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) 2013 Expanding Rural Cellular Networks with Virtual Coverage Kurtis Heimerl, Kashif Ali, Joshua Blumenstock, Brian Gawalt, Eric Brewer. 10th USENIX symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) 2013 (Community Award) Convergence of Position Auctions under Myopic Best-Response Dynamics Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Goitis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna Karlin, Scott Kominers, Claire Mathieu, Michael Schwarz. Transactions on Economics and Computation (TEAC) 2013 Communitysourcing: Engaging Local Crowds to Perform Expert Work Via Physical Kiosks Kurtis Heimerl, Brian Gawalt, Kuang Chen, Tapan Parikh, Björn Hartmann. Annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2012 (Best Paper Award) A Case Study on Designing Interfaces for Multiple Users in Developing Regions Kurtis Heimerl, Janani Vasudev, Kelly Buchanan, Tapan Parikh, Eric Brewer. 1st Annual ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV) 2010 Metamouse: Improving Multi-user Sharing of Existing Educational Applications Kurtis Heimerl, Janani Vasudev, Kelly Buchanan, Tapan Parikh, Eric Brewer. International Conference on Information and Communi- cation Technologies and Development (ICTD) 2010 Greedy Bidding Strategies for Keyword Auctions Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna Karlin, Claire Mathieu and Michael Schwarz. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC) 2007

Kurtis Heimerl 4 Workshop Papers and Works-in-progress The Village Base Station Kurtis Heimerl, Eric Brewer. 4rd ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for the Developing World (NSDR), 2010 Message Phone: A User Study and Analysis of Asynchronous Messaging in Rural Uganda Kurtis Heimerl, RJ Honicky, Eric Brewer, Tapan Parikh. 3rd ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for the Developing World (NSDR), 2009 Metamouse: Multiple Mice for Legacy Applications Kurtis Heimerl, Divya Ramachandran, Joyojeet Pal, Eric Brewer, Tapan Parikh. Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (CHI Extended Abstracts) 2009 Demonstrations Poster and Demonstration of Expanding Rural Cellular Networks with Virtual Coverage Kurtis Heimerl, Kashif Ali, Joshua Blumenstock, Brian Gawalt, Eric Brewer. Demo at 10th USENIX symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) 2013 Communitysourcing: Engaging Local Crowds to Perform Expert Work Via Physical Kiosks Kurtis Heimerl, Brian Gawalt, Kuang Chen, Tapan Parikh, Björn Hartmann. Interactivity at the annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2012 Metamouse: Multiple Mice for Legacy Applications Kurtis Heimerl, Divya Ramachandran, Joyojeet Pal, Eric Brewer, Tapan Parikh. Demo at International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) 2009 Technical Reports How Users Understand Cellular Infrastructure Kurtis Heimerl, Tapan Parikh. University of California, Berkeley Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2012-42 Transforming Community-based Healthcare with CommScape Kuang Chen, Kurtis Heimerl, Tapan Parikh, Christine Robson and Beth Trushkowsky. University of California, Berkeley Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2009-155 Enabling Innovation Below the Communication API Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Kurtis Heimerl, Matei Zaharia, Michael Demmer, Teemu Koponen, Arsalan Tavakoli, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica. University of California, Berkeley Technical Report UCB/EECS-2009-141 Presentations Rescue Base Station ACM DEV ’14, December 2014, San Jose, California, USA Community Cellular Indonesian Broadcasting Expo (IBX) October 2014, Bandung, Indonesia Community Cellular Jagongan Media Rakyat (JMR) October 2014, Jogjakarta, Indonesia GSM White Spaces: An Opportunity for Rural Coverage New York University, September 2014, NYC, NY Community Cellular Networks MIT D-Lab, September 2014, Boston, MA Building Community Cellular Networks With Endaga EmTech September 2014, Boston, MA Building Community Cellular Networks With Endaga USAID Frontiers in Development September 2014, Washington, DC Technology and Infrastructure for Developing Regions Facebook/Internet.org, July 2014, Palo Alto, CA Community Cellular Networks in Rural Papua, Indonesia Center for Southeast Asia Studies, February 2014, Berkeley, California Sustainable, Small-Scale Cellular Networks ICTD ’13, December 2013, Cape Town, South Africa An Experiment in Reducing Cellular Base Station Power Draw With Virtual Coverage ACM DEV 4, December 2013, Cape Town, South Africa

Kurtis Heimerl 5 Building and Running Community Cellular Networks with OpenBTS IEEE Engineering For Change Webinar, November 2013, Broadcast Online Technology in Delivering Social Impact Social Impact Speaker Series, University of California, Berkeley, November 2013, Berkeley, California, USA GSM White Space: Spectrum Regulation in Support of Community Cellular Networks Change Seminar, University of Washington, October 2013, Seattle, Washington, USA Community Cellular Networks Google, October 2013, Mountain View, CA, USA Community Cellular Networks Facebook, October 2013, Menlo Park, CA, USA Expanding Rural Cellular Networks with Virtual Coverage NSDI ’13, April 2013, Lombard, Illinois, USA The Village Base Station University of the Philippines, Dilman, March 2013, Dilman, Philippines The Village Base Station: Community Cellular Radio Pakistan-ICTD Workshop, Lahore University of Management Sciences, January 2013, Lahore, Pakistan The Village Base Station Change Seminar, University of Washington, December 2012, Seattle, Washington, USA Mobile Security Survival Guide: What Every Activist and Rights Defender Needs to Know Google Internet at Liberty, June 2012, Washington DC, USA Communitysourcing: Engaging Local Crowds to Perform Expert Work Via Physical Kiosks CHI ’12, May 2012, Austin, Texas, USA Communitysourcing: Engaging Local Crowds to Perform Expert Work Via Physical Kiosks BiD Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, April 2012, Berkeley, California, USA Introduction to OpenBTS/hands-on hacking Lookout Mobile Security, March 2012, San Francisco, California, USA The Evil Telco OpenBTS HackDay - the Open Mobile Network, June 2011, New York, New York, USA Metamouse: Improving Multi-user Sharing of Existing Educational Applications ICTD ’10, December 2010, Egham, UK Infrastructure School of Information ICTD Seminar, October 2010, Berkeley, California, USA The Village Base Station NSDR ’10, June 2010, San Francisco, California, USA MetaMouse: Improving the Sharing of Existing Applications CITRIS Talk, University of California, Berkeley, March 2010, Berkeley, California, USA Message Phone: A User Study and Analysis of Asynchronous Messaging in Rural Uganda NSDR ’09, October 2009, Big Sky, Montana, USA References Eric Brewer Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley breweree s.berkeley.edu Tapan Parikh Associate Professor, Information School, University of California, Berkeley parkihis hool.berkeley.edu Bjöern Hartmann Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley bjoernee s.berkeley.edu Bill Thies Researcher, Microsoft Research India thiesmi rosoft. om Last updated: February 1, 2016 h t t p : / / k u r t i . s h / v . p d f


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