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Kurtis Heimerl

Kurtis Heimerl

    University of Washington

Kurtis Heimerl is an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington working on Information and Communication Technology and International Development (ICTD), specifically universal Internet access. Before that, he received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Kurtis cofounded Endaga, which joined Facebook in 2015. He was a recipient of the 2014 MIT “35 under 35” award, the 2018 UW early career Diamond Award, and has won paper awards at CHI, NSDI, COMPASS, ASSETS, PETS, and DySPAN.

Contact

  • kheimerl@cs.washington.edu
  • https://kurti.sh

Projects

  • Innovations for Community-Held Infrastructure
  • Partnering with Grab for Cross-ASEAN Regional Urban Insights
  • Socially-integrated robust communication and information-resource sharing technologies for post-disaster community self-reliance

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