Bill Thies Researcher Technologies for Emerging Markets Group Microsoft Research India Phone: +91 80665 86023 Email: thies@microsoft.com Contact  |  Publications  |  Talks  |  CV

My current research focus is in creating appropriate information and communication technologies to promote socio-economic development. I am also interested in programming languages, compiler optimizations, and computer architectures, especially in the context of multicore architectures and microfluidic chips.

Active projects: interactive DVDs for education, low-cost technologies for healthcare, a programming language for biology protocols, and an audio wiki.

News

	Oct 20:	Automatic technique for direct transformation of compressed video presented at Multimedia'09 (paper, slides)
	Oct 5:	Invited paper on computer aided design for microfluidic chips presented at ICCD'09 (paper, slides, download)
	Sep 20:	Invited talk on mobile interfaces for novice and low-literate users at USID'09 (abridged slides)
	Jul 27:	Programming language for biology protocols presented at IWBDA'09 (abstract, slides)
	Jun 1:	Position paper on finding technical problems in ICT4D to appear at CCC workshop (paper)
	Apr 19:	Paper on mobile data collection presented at ICTD'09 (paper, slides)

Select Recent Publications (Full list by subject or by date)

	Computer-Aided Design for Microfluidic Chips Based on Multilayer Soft Lithography. ICCD 2009.
	Manipulating Lossless Video in the Compressed Domain. Multimedia 2009.
	Towards a High-Level Programming Language for Standardizing and Automating Biology Protocols. IWBDA 2009.
	Why it is Hard to Identify Technical Research Problems in ICT4D and How to Make it Easier. CCC-Workshop 2009.
	Evaluating the Accuracy of Data Collection on Mobile Phones: A Study of Forms, SMS, and Voice. ICTD 2009.
	Language and Compiler Support for Stream Programs. Ph.D. Thesis 2009.
	An Audio Wiki for Publishing User-Generated Content in the Developing World. HCI4CID 2008.
	A Practical Approach to Exploiting Coarse-Grained Pipeline Parallelism in C Programs. MICRO 2007.
	Abstraction Layers for Scalable Microfluidic Biocomputing. Natural Computing 2007.
	Learning Biophysically-Motivated Parameters for Alpha Helix Prediction. BMC Bioinformatics 2007.
	Exploiting Coarse-Grained Task, Data, and Pipeline Parallelism in Stream Programs. ASPLOS 2006.
	Digital Microfluidics Using Soft Lithography. Lab on a Chip 2006.

Select Recent Talks (Full list)

	Manipulating Lossless Video in the Compressed Domain. Multimedia 2009.
	Evaluating the Accuracy of Data Collection on Mobile Phones: A Study of Forms, SMS, and Voice. ICTD 2009.
	Stream Programming: Luring Programmers into the Multicore Era. Job Talk 2008.
	Extending the Capabilities of the Internet to the Rural Developing World. Carnegie Mellon 2008.
	Programmable Microfluidics. Stanford / UC Berkeley 2007.

Recent Videos

	Stream Programming: Luring Programmers into the Multicore Era. University of Washington 2008.
	Programmable Microfluidics. Stanford 2007.
	The StreamIt Language (In-class tutorial). MIT 2007.
	Providing Internet Search for Low-Connectivity Regions. Princeton 2007.

Recent Activities (Full list on CV)

	CHI 2010. PC member.
	PLDI 2010. External review committee.
	NSDR 2009. PC member.
	CCC Workshop on Computer Science and Global Development. Organizing committee.
	ICTD 2009. Demo co-chair and PC member.
	STMCS 2008. PC member.

Recent Projects

	StreamIt
	TEK
	ICT4DEV reading group
	Protein structure prediction
	Schedule and storage optimization
	Lecture notes (MIT 6.046, Algorithms)