Contact
Graduate Student
Computer Science Department
University of Wisconsin–Madison
1210
W. Dayton St.
Madison, WI 53706-1685
U.S.A.
| Office: | 6388 Computer Sciences and Statistics |
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| Phone: | 703-863-6660 |
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Background
I am a 2nd year graduate student in the CS department at UW-Madison. In 2004, I graduated from Macalester College majoring in Computer Science. For the two years that followed, I worked as a software developer for Objective Interface Systems (OIS), a small software company developing real-time, embedded, and high-performance communications software. I began my graduate studies in the Fall of 2006.
For a deeper history, refer to the following timeline:
| Nov 26, 1981: | Born in Goes, in the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. |
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| 1981 - 1987: | Raised in the village of Oud-Sabbinge, in the municipality of Goes. |
| 1987 - 1996: | Lived with family in Hong Kong, moving several times during the 9-year span. |
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| Fall 1987: | Began primary school at Kowloon Junior School (KJS), a British school. |
| Fall 1993: | Began secondary school at King George V School (KGV), a British school. |
| 1996 - 2000: | Lived with family in Washington Township, New Jersey, U.S.A.. Attended Westwood Regional High School. |
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| 2000 - 2004: | Lived in St. Paul, Minnesota, as an undergraduate student at Macalester College. |
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| Spring 2003: | Studied abroad at the University of York in England. |
| Summer 2003: | Worked as a researcher in Łódź, Poland, via IAESTE. |
| 2004 - 2006: | Lived in northern Virginia working as a software developer at Objective Interface Systems. |
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| 2006 - Present: | Live in Madison, Wisconsin, as a graduate student at UW−Madison. |
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Work and Aspirations
My research interests lie in the intersection of computer architecture, parallel systems, and application analysis. I am presently working with Professor Karu Sankaralingam investigating application-level fault tolerance and hardware/runtime techniques to exploit this tolerance in emerging platforms.
My career goal is to become a professor of computer science at a liberal arts college or university; I thoroughly enjoy the deep exploration and challenges of research, but also feel a strong desire to eventually teach − to impress and inspire others with the beauty of computer science, a subject that I feel is in practice as much an art as it is a science.
My current CV is available here.