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Download my curriculum vitae here [PDF].
Updated November 2016

Education

UC Santa Barbara -- Ph.D. Computer Science, 2017
        Dissertation:  Community-based Networks for Challenged Environments 

Westmont College -- B.S. Computer Science, summa cum laude, 2012

Publications

Peer Reviewed Conferences and Workshops

Paul Flikkema and Morgan Vigil-Hayes. "Self-Adaptive and Resilient Urban Networking Infrastructure for Disasters and Smart City Services," to appear in IWSC 2017, Boston, MA, USA. [Paper] [PDF]

Mai ElSherief, Morgan Vigil-Hayes, Elizabeth Belding. "Who to Query? Spatially-Blind Participatory Crowdsensing under Budget Constraints,"  CrowdSenSys 2017, Delft, Netherlands. [Paper] [PDF]

Mai ElSherief, Morgan Vigil-Hayes, Elizabeth Belding. "On the Limits for Computing for Street Harassment and Safety," in submission ​[Paper]

Morgan Vigil-Hayes, Marisa Duarte, Nicholet Deschine Parkhurst, Elizabeth Belding. "#Indigenous: Tracking the Connective Actions of Native American Advocates on Twitter," CSCW 2017, Portland, OR, USA. [Paper][PDF] (35% acceptance rate) Honorable Mention

Paul Schmitt, Morgan Vigil, Elizabeth Belding. "A Study of MVNO Data Paths and Performance," PAM 2016​, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. [Paper] [PDF]

Morgan Vigil, Elizabeth Belding, Matthew Rantanen. "Repurposing FM: Radio Nowhere to OSNs Everywhere," CSCW 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA. [Paper] [PDF](25% acceptance rate)

Waylon Brunette, Morgan Vigil, Fahad Pervaiz, Shahar Levari, Gaetano Borriello, Richard Anderson "Optimizing Mobile Application Communication for Challenged Network Environments,"  ACM DEV 2015, London, England, UK.  [Paper]

Morgan Vigil, Matthew Rantanen, Elizabeth Belding. "A First Look at Tribal Web Traffic," WWW 2015, Florence, Italy. [Paper] [PDF] (14.1% acceptance rate)

Mariya Zheleva, Paul Schmitt, Morgan Vigil, Elizabeth Belding. "The Increased Bandwidth Fallacy," in ACM DEV-4, Cape Town, South Africa . [Paper] 

Mariya Zheleva, Paul Schmitt, Morgan Vigil, Elizabeth Belding. "Bringing Visibility to Rural Users in Ivory Coast," in ICTD 2013, Cape Town, South Africa . [Paper]

Mariya Zheleva, Paul Schmitt, Morgan Vigil, Elizabeth Belding. "Community Detection in Cellular Network Traces," in ICTD 2013, Cape Town, South Africa. [Paper]

Paul Schmitt, Morgan Vigil, Mariya Zheleva, Elizabeth Belding. "Communication Flow Patterns in the Orange Telecom D4D Dataset", in NetMob 2013, Boston, MA. [Paper]

Journals and Magazines

Morgan Vigil-Hayes, Elizabeth Belding, Ellen Zegura. "FiDO: A Community-based Web Browsing Agent and CDN for Challenged Environments," Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), vol. 1, no. 3, article 108, pp. 108:1-108:25 [Paper] [PDF]

Mariya Zheleva, Paul Schmitt, Morgan Vigil, Elizabeth Belding. "Internet Bandwidth Upgrade: Implications on Performance and
Usage in Rural Zambia," Information Technologies & International Development (ITID), vol. 11, no.2. Spring 2015, pp. 1-18 [Paper] [PDF] 

Morgan Vigil and Paul Schmitt. "Overview of HotMobile 2014," in IEEE Pervasive Computing, Santa Barbara, CA. [PDF]

Presentations

Morgan Vigil-Hayes, Elizabeth Belding, and Ellen Zegura. "FiDO: A Community-based CDN for Challenged Network Environments," HotMobile 2017, Sonoma, CA. [Poster] [PDF]

Morgan Vigil, David Johnson, and Elizabeth Belding. "Localized Content for Village Schools,"  MobiSys 2015, Florence, Italy. [Poster]

Morgan Vigil and Elizabeth Belding. "Social Media Locality in a Tribal Network," in ACM DEV 2014, San Jose, CA, USA. [Poster] [PDF]

Teaching

Assistant Professor, Northern Arizona University
       Computer Networks, Fall 2017
       Network Analysis and Characterization, Spring 2018

Teaching Associate (Instructor of record), UC Santa Barbara
        Problem Solving with Computers I (C++ programming), Summer 2015

Teaching Assistant, Westmont College, 2009-2010
        Introduction to Programming I, Fall 2009
        Introduction to Programming II, Spring 2010
        Introduction to Computer Architecture, Fall 2010

Awards

Outstanding Computer Science Student, UCSB, 2017
Microsoft Graduate Women in Computer Science Scholarship, 2013
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2013
UCSB Doctoral Scholars Fellowship, 2012

Donald Knuth Top Graduate Award, Computer Science, Westmont College, 2012
David K. Winter Servant Leadership Award, Westmont College, 2011
NSF Computer Science Scholarship, 2008-2012

Service

Community
Chair, HotMobile Student Travel Grant Committee, 2017
Co-advisor to UCSB's chapter of American Indians in Science and Engineering Society, 2015-16

INFOCOM 2014, Appointed reviewer, 2014.

Departmental
Organizer of the first Winter Research Colloquium for students, 2015
Graduate Admissions Committee, Dept. of Computer Science, UCSB, graduate student representative, 2014-15
GSWC, Dept. of Computer Science, UCSB, program committee and TPC, 2013-14
Women in Computer Science, UCSB, member and co-president. 2012-current


Communities

Member of the board of directors for American Indian Health and Services in Santa Barbara, CA
UCSB Data Science Learning Group
UCSB Women in Computer Science
UCSB American Indian Graduate Student Association
UCSB American Indian and Indigenous Research Collective
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, inducted member since 2011
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