I moved to southern California in the middle of September, at the beginning of the millennium. I lived in Berkeley for a few months before that, and in El Cerrito for seven years before that. Before that I lived in the International House in Berkeley for about a year. I spent most of my two decades or so before that in Illinois.
I finished my PhD in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley in May, 1999. I got my bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois in May, 1992. I do research that is more like computational science and math. For a little over a year I wrote programs in Titanium which is a really great language. I still write programs in it from time to time.
For my first many years here, I worked at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. I was nominally in the Parallel Applications Group of the Integrative Computational Science Department, but functionally I was in Scott Baden's Scientific Computation Group in the UCSD Computer Science Department. We worked with several different groups, providing parallel computing expertise to their scientific applications.
Later I started working at the Center for Scientific Computation in Imaging in the Radiology Department of UCSD. I do lots of fun stuff both simulating and analyzing diffusion tensor MRIs. (I don't do much with all the fish stuff you'll see on that website.)
I got married to K after moving to southern California. Being married is a fun adventure. Well, being married to K is, anyway.
I have gone on a few fun backpacking trips: one to North Cascades National Park in Washington, another to Grand Teton National Park and the most recent to Big Bend National Park. I went to Big Bend National Park over the Y2K weekend with two of my friends from college. We were attempting to heighten the suspense about the possible end of civilization by being as far from removed from it as possible. The park was much more crowded than we anticipated, but it was fun anyway.
I really like beagles. Someday I hope to live in a large enough place to have a beagle live there with me. And someday I hope to convince K that she'd like to live with a beagle, too.
I have a number of friends. Chances are, if you're reading this, you're one of them. If you're not listed there, we can fix that. Just send me a note.
And in case you missed it you should visit my page of diversions.