Peer-reviewed Conference Publications
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) '13, December 7-10, 2013, Cape Town, South Africa
Expanding Rural Cellular Networks with Virtual Coverage Kurtis Heimerl, Kashif Ali, Joshua Blumenstock, Brian Gawalt, Eric Brewer. USENIX NSDI, April 2-5 2013, Lombard, Illinois.
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, 2013
Communitysourcing: Engaging Local Crowds to Perform Expert Work Via Physical Kiosks Kurtis Heimerl, Brian Gawalt, Kuang Chen, Tapan Parikh, Björn Hartmann. ACM CHI, May 5-10, 2012, Austin, Texas. Best Paper Award
A Case Study on Designing Interfaces for Multiple Users in Developing Regions Kurtis Heimerl, Janani Vasudev, Kelly G. Buchanan, Tapan Parikh, Eric Brewer. ACM DEV, December 17-18, 2010, London, United Kingdom
Metamouse: Improving Multi-user Sharing of Existing Educational Applications Kurtis Heimerl, Janani Vasudev, Kelly G. Buchanan, Tapan Parikh, Eric Brewer. International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) '10, December 13-16, 2010, London, United Kingdom
Greedy Bidding Strategies for Keyword Auctions Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna R. Karlin, Claire Mathieu, Michael Schwarz. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce 2007. December 2006, Revised April 2007
Workshops, Demos, and Works in Progress
Poster and Demonstration of Expanding Rural Cellular Networks with Virtual Coverage Kurtis Heimerl, Kashif Ali, Joshua Blumenstock, Brian Gawalt, Eric Brewer. USENIX NSDI Demo, April 2-5 2013, Lombard Illinois.
Communitysourcing: Engaging Local Crowds to Perform Expert Work Via Physical Kiosks Kurtis Heimerl, Brian Gawalt, Kuang Chen, Tapan Parikh, Björn Hartmann. Interactivity at ACM CHI, May 5-10, 2012, Austin, Texas.
The Village Base Station Kurtis Heimerl, Eric Brewer. ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR), June 15th, 2010, San Francisco, CA
Message Phone: A User Study and Analysis of Asynchronous Messaging in Rural Uganda Kurtis Heimerl, RJ Honicky, Eric Brewer, Tapan Parikh. ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR), October 11, 2009, Big Sky, MT
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) April 2009.
Metamouse: Multiple Mice for Legacy Applications Kurtis Heimerl, Divya Ramachandran, Joyojeet Pal, Eric Brewer, Tapan Parikh. Work In Progress at Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) April 2009.
On Best-Response Bidding in GSP Auctions Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna R. Karlin, Claire Mathieu, Michael Schwarz. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 13788. February 2008.
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.