C.V.

Education
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Ph.D., Civil Systems, Civil and Environmental Engineering, August 2013
Dissertation: Water Quality and Quantity in Intermittent and Continuous Piped
Water Supplies in Hubli-Dharwad, India
Advisor: Prof. Kara Nelson

University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
M.S., Civil Systems, Civil and Environmental Engineering, May 2007

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, May 2006

Graduate Coursework
CEE 113N Ecological Engineering for Water Quality Improvement
CEE 173: Groundwater and Seepage
CEE 200A: Environmental Fluid Mechanics
CEE 200C: Transport and Mixing in the Environment
CEE 210A: Control of Water-Related Pathogens
CEE 211B: Environmental Biological Processes
CEE 268E: Civil Systems and the Environment
CEE 271: Sensors and Signal Interpretation
CEE 290I: Control and Information Management
CEE 291F: Control and Optimization of Distributed Parameter Systems

Minor Fields:
City and Regional Planning 214: Infrastructure Planning and Policy
City and Regional Planning 290: Topics in Public Health Global Cities and Public Health
Energy and Resources Group 273: Social Science Research Methods
Energy and Resources Group 275: Water and Development
Hindi 1A: Introduction to Hindi
Information 290: Social Enterprise using ICTs for International Development
Public Health 212D: International Health Seminar
Public Health 272A: GIS and Public Health
Public Policy 210A: The Economics of Public Policy Analysis
Public Policy 260: Leadership and Social Change

Research Interests
Water and sanitation in developing countries, water quality in distribution systems, urban water infrastructure, global health and water, water quality monitoring, information and communica- tion technologies (ICT) for WASH, sensors for measuring water quality, social entrepreneurship, sustainability of small community water supplies

Research Experience

2013-current - Research Scientist (2014-current), Aquaya Institute  - Nairobi, Kenya 
                        Research Associate (2013-2014)

2009-2013 - Co-founder and Advisor, NextDrop - Hubli, Indi
  • For-profit social enterprise using mobile phones to provide water delivery information to households and water utilities with $450,000+ in grants and investments
2010 - Consultant, Health Canada

2009 - Intern, World Health Organization  - Geneva, Switzerland

2006-2007 - Project Director, Haath Mein Sehat with Engineers for a Sustainable World (Berkeley) -  Mumbai, India

2006 - Water and Sanitation Intern, Catholic Relief Services  - Baltimore, MD, USA

2005 - Food Security Intern, Catholic Relief Services - Antananarivo, Madagascar

2005 - Research Assistant, University of Dar es Salaam -  Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Honors and Awards
  • Global Social Venture Competition First Place for “NextDrop”, 2011
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2006
  • Chancellor’s Fellowship for Graduate Study, University of California, Berkeley, 2006
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers Kenneth Andrew Roe Scholarship, 2005
  • Vredenburg Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 2004
Teaching
  • Graduate Student Instructor for Introduction to Environmental Engineering at University of California, Berkeley Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fall 2011
  • Teaching Assistant for Materials Selection at the Johns Hopkins Department of Mechanical Engineering in Baltimore, MD, Fall 2005
Seminars and Conference Presentations

“What can monitoring data tell us about water safety in sub-Saharan Africa?” E. Kumpel, R. Peletz, M. Bonham, R. Khush. Water and Health, UNC Chapel Hill, NC, Oct 2014

“Monitoring for safe water: Microbial water testing methods and drinking water quality in Africa.” E. Kumpel, R. Peletz, M. Bonham, L. Aleru, R. Khush. African Water Congress, Abid- jan, Ivory Coast, Feb 2014

“Evaluation of intermittent versus 24x7 water supply in Hubli-Dharwad, India.” E. Kumpel, A. Ercumen, Z. Burt, K. Nelson. IWA Development Congress, Nairobi, Kenya, Oct 2013

“The challenge of providing safe water with an intermittently supplied piped water distribution system.” E. Kumpel and K. Nelson. Poster, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, Dec 2012

“Water quality in Port Harcourt,” Fragile States Review, World Bank, Nairobi, Kenya, Mar 2014

“Impact evaluation for switching from intermittent to 24x7 water supply in Hubli-Dharwad, India,” Invited presentation at the World Bank and ICRIER in Delhi, India, July 2013

Kumpel, E. “Water, Interrupted: Comparing water quality in intermittent and continuous piped water supplies in urban India.” Environmental Engineering Seminar, UC Berkeley, CA, Nov 16, 2012.

Kumpel, E. “NextDrop: Implementation challenges.” WASH in Real Time: Making Better Decisions Through Use of Mobile Applications (workshop). Water and Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Oct 29-Nov 3, 2012

Kumpel, E., Sridharan, A., Kote, T., Olmos, A., and Parikh, T. “NextDrop: Using Human Observations to Track Water Distribution.” USENIX NSDR ‘12, Boston, MA, June 12-15, 2012.

Kumpel, E. and Nelson, K. “Impact on Water Quality of Intermittent Water Supply in Urban South India.” Urban WASH: Paradigms for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene for the 21st Century South Asian City, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Apr 25, 2012.

Kumpel, E. and Nelson, K. “Impact on Water Quality of the Conversation from Intermittent to Continuous Piped Water Supply in Urban South India.” Water and Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Oct 2-6, 2011.  Top Student Oral Presentation Abstract

Kumpel, E., Burt, Z., Ercumen, A., and Silverman, A. “A Volunteer-Led Effort Linking Research to Development Practice to Promote Safe Water and Hygiene in Slums in India.”Water Environment Federation: Disinfection, Atlanta, GA, Mar 1-3, 2009.

Kumpel, E., Burt, Z., Silverman, A., Sridharan, A., Inglish, E., Yu, E., Vora, S., Fisher, M., Dain, M., Han, E., and Sadasiv, A.  “Haath Mein Sehat: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Urban Slums.” Engineers for a Sustainable World Conference, San Francisco, CA, Feb 8-9, 2008.

Volunteer Experience
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