I'm Kurtis Heimerl. I work on technology for developing regions with Professor Eric Brewer in the TIER group, as well as with Professor Tapan Parikh in the Represent group. You can reach me at kheimerl@cs.berkeley.edu.
My CV is available here.
I'm teaching CS194-22 "Cellphones as a Computing Platform" this semester. The website is here
My thesis topic is the The Village Base Station, a low-cost, low-power GSM basestation (based off OpenBTS) optimized for low-density parts of the world currently without cellular coverage.
I moonlight as a developer and open-source community manager at Range Networks, supporting the open release of OpenBTS.
I am the primary developer on a project called Metamouse (not to be confused with this), which allows for more equitable sharing of existing educational content. You can see a video demonstration here. I also gave a CITRIS talk on this research which you can see here.
I recently worked on the python implementation of the DTN bundle protocol.
Lastly, I have a few older projects which have completed. These include PANTS/NetAPI, a modern sockets implementation, and mPhone, a message-oriented phone system.