| 2020–present |
Tech For Campaigns: Director of Engineering at a progressive political non-profit, building tech for digital campaigning and voter turnout programs
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| 2022–present |
Climate Clock: Lead Software Engineer on a CircuitPython-based portable LED countdown clock that shows stats and news about climate change
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| 2019 |
Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders):
Developed software and hardware for an electronic medical record system for Ebola Treatment Centers, and deployed the system in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo
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| 2018–2019 |
Nafundi:
Android Developer on ODK, the open-source mobile data collection tool with 1M+ users worldwide
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| 2018–2019 |
Symmetry Labs:
Developer of firmware, control software, and generative animations for massive LED installations
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| 2017 |
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team:
Developer of Android apps and GIS tools for community open source mapping in Dar es Salaam
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| 2017 |
West Africa Motorcycle Mapping:
Designer and builder of software tools and human processes for epidemiological mapping in rural Sierra Leone
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| 2015–2017 |
Wave.com:
Full-Stack Engineer building a new mobile money transfer system for East Africa
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| 2010–2015 |
Google Crisis Response:
Co-founder of the Crisis Response team, building tools for disaster response and the Ebola crisis in West Africa
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| 2008–2010 |
Google.org:
Software Engineer on PowerMeter, an energy efficiency produdct
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| 2001–2007 |
UC Berkeley:
Researcher in human-computer interaction, data visualization, computer security, and electronic voting
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| 1998–2000 |
Industrial Light and Magic:
Developer and lead maintainer of 3-D paint software
used in major feature films by expert artists
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| 2014–2019 |
Project Buendia:
A medical record system for MSF
designed for extreme conditions in Ebola clinics
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| 2013 |
RECAP for Chrome:
Created a Chrome extension that helps users share and get free access
to PACER court documents;
now developed by Free Law Project
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| 2011–2014 |
Google Crisis Map:
Google's platform for building and publishing maps
to help people in natural disasters
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| 2010 |
Google Resource Finder:
A mapping tool for tracking the status of hospitals and health clinics
after the Haiti earthquake and Pakistan floods in 2010
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| 2010–2014 |
Google Person Finder:
A database for locating people affected by natural disasters, based on PFIF;
heavily used after the Haiti earthquake in 2010 and Japan earthquake in 2011
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| 2007 |
Pvote:
Small, high-assurance software for voting machines
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| 2005 |
PFIF:
A data model and format
for locating people displaced by natural disasters;
the prevailing interchange format for Hurricane Katrina survivor data
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| 2005 |
scrape.py:
A Python library for spidering and scraping web pages
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| 2003 |
Peephole Displays:
An interactive, spatially aware handheld display
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| 2003 |
SeismoSpin:
An interactive visualization of earthquake data in time and space
|
| 2001 |
Fly Enhancer:
A public search engine for
clusters of binding sites in cis-regulatory DNA in the fly genome
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| 2001 |
National survivor registry for victims of September 11 terrorist attacks
|
| 2001 |
Flamenco:
User interfaces for navigating large collections using faceted metadata
|
| 2000 |
pydoc:
The documentation generator and interactive help system for
Python
|
| 2000 |
inspect:
The Python standard library module
for introspection
|
| 1999 |
pyxi:
The graphical browser for the
Xanadu hypertext system
|
| 1998 |
Roundup:
The issue-tracking system now in daily production use at ILM and other sites
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| 1997 |
crit.org:
A browser-independent fine-grained annotation system for the Web
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| 1996 |
MINSE:
An extensible notation and rendering system for mathematics in Web documents
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| 1995 |
Shodouka:
A transformation engine that displays Japanese Web pages in browsers
without font support
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In Print |
| 2011 |
Ka-Ping Yee, Dieterich Lawson, Dominic König, Dale Zak.
The Tablecast data publishing protocol.
Proceedings of the Conference on Information Systems
for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2011).
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| 2007 |
Ka-Ping Yee.
Building Reliable Voting Machine Software.
Ph. D. dissertation.
Technical Report 2007-167,
EECS Department, UC Berkeley.
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| 2007 |
Matt Blaze, Arel Cordero, Sophie Engle, Chris Karlof, Naveen
Sastry, Micah Sherr, Till Stegers, Ka-Ping Yee.
Source Code Review of the Sequoia Voting System.
Commissioned by the California Secretary of State
for its Top-to-Bottom Review of Electronic Voting Systems.
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| 2007 |
Ka-Ping Yee.
Extending prerendered-interface voting software
to support accessibility and other ballot features.
In
Proceedings of the USENIX/ACCURATE
Electronic Voting Technology Workshop, 2007.
|
| 2006 |
Marc Stiegler, Alan H. Karp, Ka-Ping Yee, Tyler Close, Mark S. Miller.
Polaris: Virus-Safe Computing for Windows XP.
In Communications of the ACM, September 2006.
|
| 2006 |
Ka-Ping Yee, David Wagner, Marti Hearst, Steven Bellovin.
Prerendered User Interfaces
for High-Assurance Electronic Voting.
In
Proceedings of the USENIX/ACCURATE
Electronic Voting Technology Workshop, 2006.
|
| 2006 |
Ka-Ping Yee, Kragen Sitaker.
Passpet: Convenient Password Management and Phishing Protection.
In
Proceedings of the
Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, 2006.
|
| 2006 |
Ka-Ping Yee.
Firefighters and Engineers.
In
ACM Interactions, May–June 2006.
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| 2005 |
Ka-Ping Yee.
Guidelines and Strategies for
Secure Interaction Design (Chapter 13).
In
Security and Usability:
Designing Secure Systems that People Can Use,
edited by
Lorrie Faith Cranor, Simson Garfinkel.
O'Reilly, 2005.
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| 2004 |
Marc Stiegler, Alan H. Karp, Ka-Ping Yee, Mark S. Miller.
Polaris: Virus Safe Computing for Windows XP.
HP Labs Technical Report HPL-2004-221.
|
| 2004 |
Ka-Ping Yee.
Aligning Usability and Security.
In
IEEE Security & Privacy,
September 2004.
|
| 2004 |
M. Markstein, R. Zinzen, P. Markstein, Ka-Ping Yee,
A. Erives, A. Stathopoulos, M. Levine.
A regulatory code for neurogenic gene expression in the
Drosophila embryo.
In
Development
131, 2387–2394, 2004.
|
| 2004 |
Ka-Ping Yee.
Two-Handed Interaction on a Tablet Display.
In Extended Abstracts
of the ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, 2004.
|
| 2003 |
L. Jean Camp, Ka-Ping Yee.
Human implications of technology.
In
Practical Handbook of Internet Computing,
edited by M. P. Singh, CRC Press, 2003.
|
| 2003 |
Ka-Ping Yee,
Kirsten Swearingen,
Kevin Li,
Marti Hearst.
Faceted Metadata for Image Search and Browsing.
In
Proceedings of the
ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, 2003.
|
| 2003 |
Ka-Ping Yee.
Peephole Displays: Pen Interaction on Spatially Aware Handheld Computers.
In
Proceedings of the
ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, 2003.
|
| 2003 |
Mark McKelvin, Ragnhild Nestande, Leticia Valdez,
Ka-Ping Yee, Maribeth Back, Steve Harrison.
SeismoSpin: a Physical Instrument for Digital Data.
In Extended Abstracts
of the ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, 2003.
|
| 2003 |
Mark Miller, Ka-Ping Yee, Jonathan Shapiro.
Capability Myths Demolished.
Technical Report SRL2003-02,
Systems Research Laboratory,
Johns Hopkins University.
|
| 2002 |
Ka-Ping Yee.
CritLink: Advanced Hyperlinks Enable Public Annotation on the Web.
Demonstration abstract.
ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Co-operative Work, 2002.
|
| 2002 |
Ka-Ping Yee.
Zest: Discussion Mapping for Mailing Lists.
Demonstration abstract.
ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Co-operative Work, 2002.
|
| 2002 |
Ka-Ping Yee.
User Interaction Design for Secure Systems
(ACM).
In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference
on Information and Communications Security
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2513), 278–290, Springer-Verlag, 2002.
An extended version of this paper is also available as
UC Berkeley CS Technical Report CSD-02-1184.
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| 2002 |
J. English, M. Hearst, R. Sinha, K. Swearingen, Ka-Ping Yee.
Finding the Flow in Web Site Search.
In Communications of the ACM, September 2002.
|
| 2002 |
J. English, M. Hearst, R. Sinha, K. Swearingen, Ka-Ping Yee.
Hierarchical Faceted Metadata
in Site Search Interfaces.
In
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction,
2002.
|
| 2001 |
Ka-Ping Yee.
Operating an Emergency Information Service.
In Communications of the ACM, Dec 2001.
|
| 2001 |
Ka-Ping Yee, D. Fisher, R. Dhamija, M. Hearst.
Animated Exploration of Dynamic Graphs with Radial Layout.
In
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization,
2001.
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Online |
| 2005 |
Ka-Ping Yee, Marti Hearst.
A Visualization to Facilitate Productive Discussions.
Position paper accepted to Beyond Threaded Conversation Workshop
at the ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, 2005.
|
| 2003 |
Ka-Ping Yee.
Secure Interaction Design
and the Principle of Least Authority.
Position paper accepted to HCI and Security Workshop
at the ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, 2003.
|
| 2002 |
Jennifer English,
Marti Hearst,
Rashmi Sinha,
Kirsten Swearingen,
Ka-Ping Yee.
Flexible Search and Navigation
Using Faceted Metadata.
|
| 2000 |
Ka-Ping Yee.
Roundup: An Issue-Tracking System for Knowledge Workers.
Category Winner, Software Carpentry Open Source Design Competition.
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