Ka-Ping Yee

After finishing graduate school at UC Berkeley, I joined Google.org as a software engineer. In 2015, I left Google and joined Wave, and in 2020, I joined Tech For Campaigns, where we help progressive candidates win state-level seats in the United States. Here's my CV.

• Interested in voting? See the voting page for work on electoral systems, electronic voting, and voting system security. Or check out my dissertation on electronic voting.
• Do you use Python? Try q.py, a module that helps you see what's going on in your programs; here's a quick 5-minute intro. Or check out scrape.py, a handy module for scraping content from webpages.
• Want to learn Python? Have a look at the online lab exercises and assignments for the Python course I taught at UC Berkeley.

Here's a list of some things I've done. I'm still figuring out how to organize it.

Art
	Collaboration and hypertext
		Human-computer interaction
			Information design
				Music
					Python
						Security
							Teaching
								Voting and elections
									Websites and services
										2017	Ramani Huria: community mapping for flood resilience
										2017	West Africa Motorcycle Mapping: better maps, better hospital records
										2016	neveragain.tech: a pledge against misuse of data for religious targeting and mass deportation
										2016	Wave: mobile money transfer for East Africa
		H	I							2014	Project Buendia: medical records for emergency relief in response to the Ebola epidemic
A										2013	Lighting design and engineering for Truth is Beauty at Burning Man 2013
					P					2013	q.py: quick and dirty debugging output for tired programmers
										2013	RECAP for Chrome: building a free library of public court documents
A		H								2012	Light Orchestra: a thousand lights respond to you, the conductor (featured at Sea of Dreams, Burning Man, and the Exploratorium)
A										2012	Lighting design and engineering for The Serpent Twins at Burning Man 2012
		H	I						W	2011	Google Crisis Map: a map mash-up builder and publishing tool
A										2011	Lighting design and engineering for Truth is Beauty at Burning Man 2011
						S			W	2010	Facebook API Browser: explore what's publicly visible through the Facebook Graph API
			I				T	V		2010	Election Methods in Pictures: play with election counting methods to see how they work
		H							W	2010	Google Person Finder: a public missing persons database for the earthquake in Haiti
		H								2010	Multitetris: multiplayer cooperative Tetris for a multitouch table
		H	I						W	2009	SMS for Life: using mobile phones to improve distribution of malaria supplies in Africa
		H	I						W	2008	Google PowerMeter: an energy information platform for everyone
		H			P	S		V		2007	Ph. D. dissertation: on electronic voting and Pvote
						S		V		2007	Voting systems review (for the California Secretary of State)
		H			P	S		V		2007	Pvote: small and flexible software for voting machines
			I						W	2006	Genome Enhancer: the multi-organism version of Fly Enhancer
		H				S				2006	Passpet: convenient password management and phishing protection
				M						2006	Music 148. African music ensemble
A									W	2005	Regender: a gender-swapped view of the Web
A										2005	Sideways Room: disorienting decor for your party guests
					P		T			2005	CS 9H. Python: a self-paced programming course
			I					V		2005	Voting visualizations: comparing the fairness of election methods
	C		I							2005	Threaded conversation map: a viewer for online discussions
										2005	PFIF: a standard for data about people missing or displaced by disasters
							T			2004	CS 184. Computer graphics
		H								2004	Two-handed tablet interface: a multitouch hack
					P		T			2003	CS 98/198. Beautiful code: a course in the art of Python
			I							2003	SeismoSpin: an interactive visualization for browsing earthquake data
		H								2003	User-directed screen reading: screen reading as an input operation
		H								2003	Peephole displays: handheld windows on a virtual workspace
A										2003	Figure drawings: from a class I took in Cambridge, MA
			I		P				W	2002	Flamenco: a facet-based browsing and search interface
						S				2002	Auditors: an extensible code verification mechanism
				M						2002	Transcribed music for piano
	C		I							2002	Zest: an experimental viewer for e-mail discussions
			I						W	2001	Fly Enhancer: a search engine for binding sites in D. melanogaster
			I							2001	Phoebus: progressive display of database query results
			I							2001	Notes from Infovis 2001
		H				S				2001	Secure interaction design: principles for usable secure software
			I							2001	GnuTellaVision: animated exploration of graphs with radial layout
									W	2000	Malkovich mediator: try this if you're in a wacky mood!
							T			2000	CS 61A. Structure and interpretation of computer programs
					P				W	2000	Roundup: an issue tracker for knowledge workers
		H							W	1999	Real-time chat (without Javascript, Java, or Flash)
	C				P					1999	Pyxi: a browser for Xanadu hypertext
	C								W	1997	Crit: a public annotation system for webpages
									W	1996	MINSE: enabling anyone to put math in webpages
									W	1995	Shodouka: a mediator for viewing Japanese websites

Random things: I also have a page of other small software projects that don't have their own project pages. Also some PortMidi and pyPortMidi binaries for Mac OS 10.6.