Ony my way to K2, under shadows of Masherbrum (7821m), Pakistan.

I am Kashif Ali, post-doctoral research fellow with Prof. Eric Brewer and the TIER research group, focusing on ICT4D.

Currently, I am working with Kurtis Heimerl on low cost, low power GSM base station (VBTS: Village Base Station). The VBTS is engineered for low-density regions of the world with poor or no cellular coverage. We are enhancing GSM to reduce the BTS power consumption. Our GSM base-station runs modified version of openBTS.

Recently, I found myself interested in engineering low cost and low power computing machines for middle (and low-middle) income classes of the world.

My thesis work was on RFID, mainly architectural and algorithmic enhancements to support ultra-large scale deployments (in context of Internet of Things).

List of publications are here, academic matters are here.

I am reachable at: kashif@cs.berkeley.edu