People
Faculty
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Richard Anderson
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Richard is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, where he has been on the faculty since 1986, with brief leaves to Indian Institute of Science, Microsoft Research, and PATH. His research has focussed on computing for the developing world since 2005, when he became involved with the Digital Study Hall project. In 2009, Richard spent a sabbatical year working with the Digital Health Solutions group at PATH, a global health NGO based in Seattle. This opportunity allowed him to increase his efforts on applying computing technologies to challenges in global health. While working with PATH, he co-founded the Projecting Health project, which uses the Community-Led Video Education model to promote healthy practices in rural areas in India. Back at University of Washington, he oversaw the efforts of the Open Data Kit project. His research interests in ICTD include technologies for behavior change communication, improving tools to support the use of data in strengthening health systems, and digital financial services.
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Kurtis Heimerl
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Kurtis is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley where he worked on Commmunity Cellular Networks: low-cost, low-power, locally owned cellular infrastructure. After Berkeley he co-founded Endaga to commercialize the work on Community Cellular and joined Facebook to continue that effort. His research focuses primarily on access, continuing to build and evaluate Community Cellular networks the world over, in partnership with organizations such as Rhizomatica, Facebook, and others. He is a developer on CommunityCellularManager and a close partner with Facebook’s OpenCellular. Beyond access he also is interested broadly in cellular. Some examples projects include countering “Stingray” IMSI-catcher devices and lower-power communications.
Researchers
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Spencer Sevilla
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Dr. Sevilla is a self-starting, fast-moving computer scientist with a record of creating innovative and award-winning solutions in the fields of computer networking and distributed systems. He is the author of thirteen peer-reviewed papers, ten US patents, has received multiple “Best Paper” awards (IFIP, ICNP) and was recently awarded a UC Presidential Fellowship. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the ICTD Lab at the University of Washington, where he works with Kurtis Heimerl on community cellular networks. Spencer’s primary research interest is Internet architecture and access in developing and disconnected regions, including issues such as content distribution and caching, spectum allocation, and last-mile connectivity. His previous research interests have included content networking, mesh routing (wired and wireless), future Internet architectures, and virtual datacenter networks.
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Matt Ziegler
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Dr. Matt Ziegler is an Innovation Fellow at the Ocean Nexus Center, and researches how environmental organizations like NGO’s and government agencies can more effectively harness emerging technologies in their work, critically examining their realistic potentials and limitations. He completed a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering in 2022; and draws from experience on a broad range of environmental and development-sector projects, in fields like agriculture extension, primate behavior research, genomics, insect biodiversity, and environmental education.
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Alumni
![Samia Ibtasam [Razaq]](img/samia_ibtasam.jpg)
Masters 2021. Now at Qumulo
Masters 2023. Cofounder at OneCourt
Ph.D., 2014. Now founder of gaet.io
Ph.D., 2011. Now cofounder of Nafundi
Ugrad, 2017-18.
Ugrad
Ugrad
In Memory
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Gaetano Borriello
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Gaetano was faculty member at UW-CSE from 1988 - 2015. He passed away on February 1, 2015 following a long fight with cancer. He was directing efforts in applying mobile technologies to the problems of public health and development in low-resource settings. He led development of open-source mobile data collection tools, Open Data Kit, that are in use on six continents in programs ranging across public health, documentation of human rights violations, and environmental monitoring.
Collaborators
