Office Hours: Tuesdays 5:00-6:30PM in CSE2 240 or on Zoom, or by Appointment

Email: kheimerl at cs.washington.edu

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Associate Professor at the University of Washington. I work with the wonderful students in the Change and ICTD groups. I work broadly on the space of technology for poverty alleviation, specifically Internet Access. I have published widely, including top conferences such as ICTD, CHI, CSCW, MobiCom, and NSDI. I was a recipient of the 2014 MIT “35 under 35” award, the 2018 UW early career Diamond Award, and won “Best Paper” awards at CHI, COMPASS, PETS, and DySPAN and two “Community Awards” at NSDI. I occasionally publish on the UWCSE ICTD Blog and am a technical advisor at Laude Ventures.

Office Hours: Fridays 10:00-11:00 AM on Zoom. Will change to 3:00-4:00 PM in February.

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Hello, I’m Innocent Obi Jr. I’m a 5th year at the University of Washington. My research lies at the intersection of computer networking, formal methods, security, and category theory. My core research topics are secure and composition API security, categorical systems for computer systems designs and implementation (a take on co-design), and novel federated computing in low-resource settings.

Office Hours: Wednesdays 6:00-7:00PM on Google Meet

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Hello! I’m Zezhou Wang, a third-year PhD student at the University of Washington. My research interests are in networks and systems, and I’m currently working on ML systems, with a focus on distributed training and collective communication.