News

May 2026
Honored to receive an NSF CAREER Award!
December 2026
Monniiesh graduated! Starting at Maven Securities.
February 2026
Tauhid received an ISOC Pulse Research Fellowship!
December 2025
Zhuowei graduated! Starting at Databricks.
September 2025
New blog: You still probably don't need the BSL Fabric, Unless You're Into Hexagons
September 2025
Our work on strategic misreporting in the broadband map is at TPRC 2025
September 2025
Our work on network sharing via roaming-in-place is at SIGCOMM 2025
July 2025
Co-hosted the SNIP2+ workshop in Washington, DC! Thanks to everyone who attended and to NSF and VT for support!
June 2025
New blog: Impact of Unlicensed Fixed Wireless in the New BEAD Rules
November 2024
Our paper on automated quality checking of the FCC's Broadband Map is at IMC 2024
October 2024
Received an NSF CIVIC planning grant supporting research with the Nez Perce Tribe on digital inclusion.
October 2023
Received a PREP Award from ISCE @ VT, thanks!
May 2023
New blog: You Probably Don't Need the BSL Fabric
April 2023
New blog: A First Look at the Evolving National Broadband Map
April 2023
Magma paper wins NSDI 2023 Community Award
May 2022
New funding from NSF on enabling all users to use the best cellular network available. Joint with Sylvia Ratnasamy and Scott Shenker.
August 2021
Joined Virginia Tech as an assistant professor!
August 2021
Our CellBricks paper appears at SIGCOMM 2021
August 2019
Completed my PhD at UC Berkeley!
February 2019
Our CommunityCellularManager papers won the NSDI 2019 Community Award!
December 2015
Our work on scaling WISPs wins Best Paper at ACM DEV 2015!
October 2015
TechCrunch: Facebook hires founders of cellular-network-in-a-box company Endaga
December 2014
Fierce Network: Endaga raises $1.2M to help it bring cellular to remote villages
December 2014
Fast Company: Is Endaga's Telco-in-a-Box the cell phone solution for the next billion?
April 2014
Our paper on GSM Whitespaces wins Best Paper at IEEE DySPAN 2014
February 2014
Ars Technica: Cellular's open source future is latched to tallest tree in the village