Scholar
Kurtis Heimerl
Google Scholar ID: CKwb5v8AAAAJ
University of Washington
Citations & Impact
Citations
794
H-index
16
i10-index
24
Publications
20
Co-authors
25
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the 2014 MIT “35 under 35” award
- Received the 2018 UW Early Career Diamond Award
- Best Paper awards at CHI, COMPASS, PETS, and DySPAN
- Two Community Awards at NSDI
- Published widely in top-tier venues including COMPASS, CHI, CSCW, MobiCom, PETS, and NSDI
- Published dAuth: A Resilient Authentication Architecture for Federated Private Cellular Networks at ACM SIGCOMM '24
- Published “I will just have to keep driving”: A Mixed-methods Investigation of Lack of Agency within the Thai Motorcycle Rideshare Driver Community at CSCW '24
Research Experience
- Leads the Change and ICTD research groups at the University of Washington
- Co-founded Endaga, a company commercializing community communication research, later acquired by Facebook
- Serves as a research advisor at Laude
- Advises PhD students and postdocs working on wildlife conservation, Internet measurement in Africa, air quality impacts in Thailand, and the Seattle Community Network
- Collaborates with a conservancy in Kenya on community engagement tools
- Advancing LTE-for-community research in the Puget Sound region
