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| I scanned in a copy of my senior photo, which is actually from 1997. Also from that year is a hall photo from where I lived then, East Campus 1st West. |
I just finished my Master's and Bachelor's degrees in course 6-3 (that's Computer Science for any non-MIT people), as well as a Bachelor's in 18 (Math). I'm heading to New York City (aka Center of the Universe) to work at DE Shaw and Co.
I spent a couple of years working on Cilk, an algorithmic multithreaded runtime scheduler. Specifically, I worked on a debugging tool that automatically detects race conditions in Cilk programs. The tool is described in my Master's thesis, entitled Debugging Multithreaded Programs that Incorporate User-Level Locking [Abstract] [Full text in Postscipt, gzip'ed, 624 KB]. My thesis won an M. Eng. CS thesis prize, the William A. Martin award.
I worked for a while at Switzerland, which is part of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and the MIT Lab for Computer Science.
My first project was to design software to serve as a teaching aid for crystallography by displaying complex 3 dimensional representation surfaces. Now longitudinal piezoelectric surfaces as well as Young's Modulus surfaces are available. For a quick sample, take a look at the Young's Modulus surface for tin.
My second project, The Visible Compiler, was designed to use the Mosaic browser as a simple, highly visible interface to the MIT Scheme 8.0 compiler.
Next I went to work on writing optimizations for the Scheme compiler. The project began as an attempt to reorder the arguments to interal Scheme procedures, and ended up as a loop unroller. Here's a report summarizing the work, in Postscript and LaTex source.
Kapil Dandekar
Scott Powell
Brian Dickens
You can see if I'm logged onto an Athena machine through MIT's zephyr service. Feel free to zwrite me.
A Postscript version of my resume. (Note: Some versions of ghostview don't display the wide margins properly; it's better to save the file and print it. If you just want to view my resume with ghostview, here's a multi-page version with narrower margins.)
I try to stay away from mile-long "Best of the Web" lists, but here
are a couple of really good ones I couldn't help mentioning.
The Dilbert Zone
The
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