I graduated in May 2009, having completed my dissertation, titled A Delay Tolerant Networking and System Architecture for Developing Regions.

My general research interest has been in Distributed Systems and Networking, and my advisor was Eric Brewer. During graduate school, I focused on the application of technology for the developing world and delay tolerant networking.

Some links to projects I'm involved with are:

• TIER: Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions
• DTNRG: Delay Tolerant Networking

• TierStore: A Distributed Storage System for Challenged Networks in Developing Regions
  Michael Demmer, Bowei Du, and Eric Brewer, USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technlogies (FAST), February 2008 [pdf]
  USENIX ;login: Magazine, June 2008 [pdf]
• Towards a Modern Communications API
  Michael Demmer, Kevin Fall, Teemu Koponen, and Scott Shenker, Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HOTNETS), November 2007 [pdf]
• A message oriented phone system for low cost connectivity
  R.J. Honicky, Omar Bakr, Michael Demmer, and Eric Brewer, Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HOTNETS), November 2007 [pdf]
• DTLSR: Delay Tolerant Routing for Developing Regions
  Michael Demmer and Kevin Fall, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Systems in Developing Regions (NSDR), August 2007 [pdf]
• Analysis of WWW Traffic in Cambodia and Ghana
  Bowei Du, Michael Demmer, and Eric Brewer, WWW 2006 [pdf]
• The Challenges of Technology Research in Developing Regions
  Eric Brewer, Michael Demmer, Melissa Ho, R.J. Honicky, Joyojeet Pal, Madelaine Plauche, and Sonesh Surana, IEEE Pervasive, April-June 2006 [article]
• Using Redundancy to Cope with Failures in a Delay Tolerant Network
  Sushant Jain, Michael Demmer, Rabin Patra, and Kevin Fall, SIGCOMM 2005 [pdf]
• The Case for Technology in Developing Regions
  Eric Brewer, Michael Demmer, Bowei Du, Melissa Ho, Matthew Kam, Sergiu Nedevschi, Joyojeet Pal, Rabin Patra, Sonesh Surana, and Kevin Fall, IEEE Computer, June 2005 [pdf]
• The Arrow Distributed Directory Protocol
  Michael Demmer and Maurice Herlihy, 12th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 98), September 1998, Greece. Best student paper award. [pdf]

• Tython: A Dynamic Simulation Environment for Sensor Networks
  Michael Demmer, Philip Levis, August Joki, Eric Brewer, and David Culler, UC Berkeley Technical Report UCB/CSD-05-1372, February 2005 [pdf]
• Implementing Delay Tolerant Networking
  Michael Demmer, Eric Brewer, Kevin Fall, Sushant Jain, Melissa Ho, and Rabin Patra, Intel Research Berkeley Technical Report IRB-TR-04-020, December 2004 [pdf]
• U.S. Patent No. 7,120,666
  Transaction accelerator for client-server communication systems, Steven McCanne and Michael Demmer, Granted October 2006
• U.S. Patent No. 7,116,249
  Content-based segmentation scheme for data compression in storage and transmission including hierarchical segment representation, Steven Mccanne and Michael Demmer, Granted October 2006

• Delay Tolerant Networking Tutorial
  Presented at Mobihoc in Florence, Italy, May 2006 [ppt, pdf]
  
• TierStore / DTN: A distributed storage infrastructure for developing regions
  Presented at the Tier workshop in Berkeley, October 2005 [ppt, pdf]
  Presented at the CENTS retreat in Tahoe, January 2005 [ppt, pdf]
  Presented at the ICT4B Workshop in Berkeley, August 2004 [ppt, pdf]
• DTN Reference Implementation Update
  Presented at the DTNRG meeting held at IETF 69 in Chicago, July 2007. [pdf]
  Presented at the DTNRG meeting held at IETF 65 in Dallas, March 2006. [ppt, pdf]
  Presented at the DTNRG meeting held at IETF 62 in Minneapolis, March 2005. [ppt, pdf]
  Presented at the DTNRG meeting held at IETF 60 in San Diego, August, 2004. [ppt, pdf]
• Tython: Simulation Scripting for TinyOS
  Presented at the NEST retreat in Tahoe, January 2004 [ppt, pdf] [poster ppt, pdf]
• E-Mail4B: An E-Mail Delivery System for the Developing World
  Presented at the Forum on IT for the Developing World in Berkeley, December 2003 [ppt]

• TierStore: A Distributed Storage System for Challenged Networks (draft)
  Michael Demmer, Bowei Du, Eric Brewer, October 2006 [pdf]
• The hardness of the K-Allocation problem.
  Michael Demmer, Bowei Du, CS270 Class Project, May 2005 [pdf]
• Richard Feynman: Simulating Physics with Computers
  Michael Demmer, Rodrigo Fonseca, Farinaz Koushanfar, Class presentation on Quantum Computing given in the CS294 seminar on "Reading the Classics" (and associated paper) December 2004 [pdf, talk ppt, talk pdf]
• DTNServ: A Case for Service Classes in Delay Tolerant Networks
  Michael Demmer, CS268 class project, May 2004 [pdf]
• E-Mail4B: An E-Mail Delivery System for the Developing World
  Michael Demmer, Bowei Du, Matt Piotrowksi, CS262A / ICT4B class project, December 2003 [pdf]