Work and Education

This page contains an overview of my work and educational experience. A list of my publications is kept on a separate page.

• School

  • Undergrad: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. BMath in Computer Science/Combinatorics and Optimization.
  • Masters: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. MMath in Computer Science. Thesis Title: "A Constraint-based Approach to Dynamic Colour Management for Windowing Interfaces"
  • Masters: Columbia University MPhil in Computer Science
  • PhD (in progress): Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Computer Science.

• Work

  • Nynex Science and Technology, White Plains, New York. Worked on prototypes of Augmented and Virtual Reality systems for various aspects of Nynex business.
  • Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, California. Worked on innovative user interface techniques in the domain of 2 1/2D graphical editing, part of the Magic Lens and Toolglass project (see SIGGRAPH '94).
  • Computer Graphics Laboratory, UofW, Waterloo, Ontario.Designed and built tools for use in experiments in cognitive psychology running on multi-processor real-time workstations.
  • Centre for the New Oxford English Dictionary, UofW, Waterloo, Ontario. Part of group that designed and built a distributed, structure-sensitive editor.
  • Computer Systems Group, UofW, Waterloo, Ontario. Implemented tools for the CSG C Tools package, including lint, a grammar-based cformat and cxref. Also worked on a research project on data-centered document processing.
  • Other ... Various jobs in the computer industry, including an MIS environment, a small software company, sales, etc.

• Technical Interests

  • Distributed, networked Augmented Reality.
  • Graphics and User-Interfaces in general.
  • Ubiquitous computing.
  • Real-time, distributed and mobile systems.
  • Programming Languages.