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Education:

Yale University. – PhD, Computer Science                                       December 2012
Project: Deterministic Parallel OpenMP.  Advisor: Bryan Ford.
Co-author (team member), OSDI Best Paper Award, 2011.

Columbia University. – BS, Computer Science                                May 2006
Theory track.  Russell C. Mills Award.  Contributed to research project on Arabic morphology.

Yale University. – PhD, English Language and Literature               May 1984

Columbia University. – BA, English and Comparative Literature   May 1978

Technical Skills:

Programming Languages – C++ (current), C, C#, Java, Perl, Python, PHP, Haskell, ML, R

Markup and Query Languages – HTML, LaTeX, Dot, SQL

Operating Systems Used – Linux, Windows, Mac OS X

Tools Used – GCC, GDB, Clang/LLVM, LLDB, Xcode, Visual Studio, VI (Gvim)

Experience:

MathWorks, Inc. – Natick, MA                                              September 2012­­­–present
Software Engineer – (C++, Perl)

  • Code Generation Intermediate Representation team, improving and optimizing the IR for tools to translate from MATLAB and Simulink down to C or HDL.
  • Developed a new LLVM back end.
  • Developed features to enforce expected semantics, ensure correctness, and facilitate testing.
  • Improved generated code performance by as much as 100-fold.
  • Refactored legacy code using test-driven development and Clean Code
  • Supervised QE projects.
  • Fixed and prevented bugs caused by misunderstood semantics, hidden numerical transformations, and vulnerabilities to undefined behavior.
  • (C++, Perl.)

Google, Inc. – New York, NY                                                May 2011 –September 2011
Summer Intern – (C++)

  • Site Reliability Engineering team.
  • Designed and developed a tool to gather and report data on high-latency operations in the distributed storage infrastructure
  • (C++)

Google, Inc. – New York, NY                                                May 2010–August 2010
Summer Intern – (Python)

  • DoubleClick team.
  • Designed and developed an integrated testing infrastructure for their new advertisement tracking tag server
  • (Python)

Ellington Management Group – Old Greenwich, CT.            May 2007–August 2007
Summer Intern – (Python)

  • Developed a custom Web services infrastructure, including parser, serializer, asynchronous parallel message handler, deserializer, and CLR IR code generator (C#), together with unit and system tests
  • (Python)

Microsoft Research – Redmond, WA                                     May 2006–August 2006
Summer Intern – (C++, .Net)

  • Designed and developed a demonstration project to infer a context-free grammar from the source code of a hand-written parser, using Microsoft’s Phoenix compiler toolkit (C++ .Net).

Previous Career

Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature,
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.   August 1984–August 2004.
Research and teaching on poetry and poetics.  Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cornell
University, 1986.  Tenure: 1994.  Fulbright Senior Scholar, Germany, 2001.