2024
Co-PC chair w/ Jan Tobias Muehlberg of LIMTS 2024.
On at-home-take-care-of-kids sabbatical 2024.
2023
Co-PC chair w/ Elina Eriksson of LIMTS 2023.
Graduated my first students, Matt Ziegler and Matt Johnson.
2022
We won "best overall" in the proof of concept category at the IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge.
The Jackson School profiled our work deploying a network in Ulukhaktok.
These volunteers are building cell towers to bring the internet to everyone – and they need help
Geekwire, September 2022
Had another baby!
More service work, on the PCs for CSCW and CoNEXT.
2021
We were awarded a follow-on PIT-UN grant to continue to work on the Digital Stewards education project.
We were awarded an NSF grant to build community edge infrastructure with Emma Slager, Jason Young, Seattle Central, the Black Brilliance Research Project, Tacoma Cooperative Network, and the Tacoma Public Library.
Sudheesh won a best paper award (with his CloudFlare colleagues) at PETS 2021 and Matt Ziegler won an honorable mention at COMPASS 2021! So success.
More service work: I am the co-program chair for COMPASS 2021 and on the NSDI 2022 PC. Submit things!
2020
We won a PIT-UN Grant to build distributed cellular infrastructure!
Tim Althoff, See-Kiong Ng and I were awarded an NSF EAGER grant to study social good with Grab in Southeast Asia. Thanks NSF!
Matt Ziegler and team were awarded best paper at COMPASS 2020!
Decided to start putting PC engagements on here. On the MobiSYS, Symposium on Edge Computing, ACM COMPASS, CHI, and ACM ICTD Program Committes. Submit things!
2019
Katharina and I won a Facebook grant to work on Perceptions of internet-based technologies among rural and urban Americans.
People are building technology that could survive the apocalypse
Fast Company, November 2019
We were recognized for our contribution to diversity and inclusion at CSCW 2019!
We won a Best Student Paper award at ASSETS 2019!
Village Base Station Project
ANC Early Edition, April 2019
We won a Community Award at NSDI 2019!
Pat Kosakanchit and Rowan Phipps both earned a Honorable Mention from the Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards for their research in our lab.
Observing a community network in the Philippines through a gendered lens
GenderIT.org, January 2019
Deploying community cellular networks in rural barangays in the Philippines
Rising Voices, January 2019
2018
We won third place grand prize at the Mozilla WiNS challenge.
Our partner networks in Indonesia and The Philippines win an ISIF Community Networking grant and award.
Building a ‘cell tower in a box’ to connect some of the billions of people lacking internet access
GeekWire, June 2018
Endaga is mentioned in USAID,s Higher Education Solutions Network Impact Report.
Matt Johnson wins an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award.
Esther jang win an honorable mention and Spencer Sevilla wins 3rd place in the Wireless Innovation for a Networked Society (WINS) Challenges.
I won the College of Engineering Diamond Award for Early Career Achievement.
2016
Facebook,s Huge Plan to Shake Up Dull World of Telecoms
Fortune, February 2016
UW computer scientists to make financial products better and more available for the poor
EurekAlert!, January 2016
2015
No phone signal in a disaster? Solar network ‘in a box’ to the rescue
Pakistan Today, September 2015
DIY telecoms
The Economist, March 2015
Pushing cell service to remote areas, disaster zones
GCN, January 2015
Kill Dead Zones With This Small Box
Popular Science, January 2015
Reports cast doubt on expanded role for MNOs
Policy Tracker, January 2015
Connecting the Unconnected Billion
Emerging Frontiers, January 2015
Empowering locals to bring phone signal to remote areas
Springwise, January 2015
2014
How to bring mobile coverage to the remotest parts of the world
Quartz, December 2014
Is Endaga,s Telco-In-A-Box The Cell Phone Solution For The Next Billion?
Fast Company, December 2014
Endaga raises $1.2M to help it bring cellular to remote villages
Fierce Wireless Tech, December 2014
Endaga Brings Rural Villages Online With a Cell Network in a Box
re/code, December 2014
At the Wheel:Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Bloomberg TV Indonesia, November 2014
Tech Now!
Bloomberg TV Indonesia, November 2014
Outback Technology
Berkeley Engineer, November 2014
Kurtis Heimerl Named MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35
Berkeley eGrad, September 2014
This startup gives rural entrepreneurs the tech to operate their own mobile networks
Tech in Asia, September 2014
This little box brings cell service to the most remote places on Earth
Bacon Reader, August 2014
Kurtis Heimerl: 35 Innovators under 35
MIT Technology Review, August 2014
New Eavesdropping Equipment Sucks All Data Off Your Phone
Newsweek, June 2014
From balloons to shrimp-filled shallows, the future is wireless
Reuters, April 2014
Cellular,s open source future is latched to tallest tree in the village
Ars Technica, February 2014
2013
2013: The Best Communication Stories of the Year
MIT Technology Review. December 2013
How Remote Places Can Get Cellular Coverage by Doing It Themselves
MIT Technology Review. December 11, 2013
Mexico sees its first open-source village cellphone network
USA Today. September 16th, 2013
Range Networks: Open Source Cellular Networks
Daily Wireless. March 26th, 2013
Cell system used in Antarctica may help to cover the Plains
Network World. March 23rd, 2013
2012
Demo Hour
ACM Interactions, December 2012
Powered by the sun, telcos open up cellphone,s final frontier
Reuters. December 20th, 2012
"Guru Besar" OpenBTS Berduet di Serpong (Indonesian)
Kompass. November 1st, 2012
Hacked Vending Machine Trades Snacks For Skills
Tech News Daily. April 27th, 2012