Blockpliance, is a pioneering start-up that I co-founded with Guillermo Fernandes . Guillermo comes from a private banking background and began working on the company in 2021. In the summer of 2022, I joined him as an engineer and advisor and proceeded to take the product to the next level with a team of ambitious…
I was honored to be selected as the 2019 Teacher of the Year at Westmont’s Commencement. It was a complete surprise to me, although I probably should have realized something was up when my partner casually mentioned that she “thought she’d go to Commencement this year”. I thought, “I guess she wants to hear the…
Westmont College Professor of Computer Science and Director of Technical Initiatives Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of Technical Initiatives I joined Westmont College as a tenure-track professor in the Department of Math and Computer Science in August of 2015 and was promoted to Full Professor on May 9, 2018
I’m honored that the ACM has recognized a book to which I contributed as being one of the “Best of Computing” books for 2014.
The Office on Information Technology, the Council on Student Experience and the Teaching Learning & Technology Center at UCI awarded Prof. Tomlinson, Prof. Nardi and myself the Instructional Technology Innovation Award for 2015! It comes with a engraved trophy and a $1000 cash award and was for the online course “Global Disruption and Information Technology“
Dr. William Karnes and I are working on deploying a colonoscopy quality measure application for use in endoscopic suites. We announced the effort today at the UCI Health 2015 Gastroenterology & Hepatology Symposium. It is a data entry tool that should be useful to endoscopists who are trying to monitor their performance at reducing colon cancer. I am excited to be…
Our paper ICT4S 2029: What will be the systems supporting sustainability in 15 years? was nominated for a best paper award at ICT for Sustainability 2014 in Stockholm, Sweden.
I am honored to have received the 2014 Outstanding Professor for the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science. This award is a student granted award and is part of the UCI yearbook’s annual honors. My students are the best!
I received the UCI Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research for work that I did with a team that merged augmented reality with Kinect point clouds.
My co-authors and I received a ten-year impact award for a paper we wrote in UBICOMP …. ten years ago: Inferring High-Level Behavior from Low-Level Sensors This is a terrific honor and I’m very proud of being part of it!
I am proud to be the recipient of the ICS Dean’s Award for Teaching as part of the UCI Celebration of Teaching Awards. (Despite the web page’s information, I really received it in 2013)
I’m very proud to have been awarded, with my co-authors, a 5-year prominent paper award from the AI Journal for the paper, Learning and Inferring Transportation Routines. Here is the text of their award: This paper introduces a hierarchical Markov model that can learn and infer a user’s daily movements through an urban community, and…
I’m very happy to have been awarded, along with my co-authors, the Computing Community Consortium Sustainability Award at CHI 2012 for the paper, Collapse informatics: Augmenting the Sustainability & ICT4D Discourse in HCI
Audia, formerly whisper.fm, was a start-up that I worked on with George Ruan and Sam Kaufman. It was a very simple idea. Instead of downloading a podcast, you could call in and listen to it over the audio channel of the phone. It enabled you to get podcast content without a data plan. If the…
waitscout was a start-up that I worked on with several folks, including George Ruan, Brian Silverstein and Ryan Hudson. It was going to use predictive analytics plus relevant data from the Internet of Things to figure out what the wait time was at popular restaurants. Then we would add that information to places like OpenTable…
swayr was a start-up that I worked on with several folks, including George Ruan and Paul Limon. The idea was to use gamification to encourage sharing of media. So we would have links to media that we could track the use of. Then we would build game mechanics that encouraged people to share links. Companies…
I am honored to receive the UCI Donald Bren School for Information and Computer Science School’s Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Teaching. This award is for 2008 and is on behalf of the UCI ICS School which grants these honors annually to teachers who have demonstrated excellence in undergraduate education.
quub was a start-up that I worked on with several folks, including George Ruan and Nathan Esquenazi. quub was a commercialization of Nomatic*IM. Basically it was supposed to be automatic status updates that your computer would generate for you based on what it could detect about you from sensors. The ideal case would be to…
I am thrilled and honored to have been awarded the 2005 ISWC Best Paper award for our paper on “Fine-grained Activity Recognition by Aggregating Abstract Object Usage“. It was a collaborative effort amongst myself, Dieter Fox, Henry Kautz and Matthai Philipose. There are few research honors that are exhilarating as a best paper award.
Assistant/Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.
From 1999 to 2005 I was a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Seattle. For the first couple of years I worked in Sieg Hall and then moved into Allen Hall once it was complete. My advisors were Henry Kautz and Dieter Fox. I also owe a debt…
I did two summer internships at Intel Research Seattle while in graduate school at UW. That organization ceased to exist around 2012-2013, but it was a moment in time that was very cool. The dawn of ubiquitous computing and lots of great researchers working on it. I designed and implemented a modeling language and statistical…
I am honored to be part of a lineage of grad students who have been awarded the University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Educator’s Endowed Fellowship. It is a validation of the effort that I put into teaching and an honor to know that my colleagues notice and care about it.
While I was in graduate school I did some work with the Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research. I did data modeling with the researchers there using the VA’s electronic medical record system, CHIPS. We published an influential paper on kidney disease that is one of my highest cited papers.
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Master’s of Science in Computer Science 2001
I am honored to be part of a lineage of undergraduate and graduate students who have been awarded the University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Bob Bandes Award. It is an award that honors the memory of a great grad TA by encouraging new generations of teachers.
I am honored to have been awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. This generous competitive award funds doctoral students in disciplines that are deemed to be supportive of the U.S. National Defense for 3 years. It does not require military service. In is comparable to the NSF Graduate Fellowship.
I was the Navigator and Operations Officer on the USS SIMON LAKE (AS-33) from 1997-1999. I was originally stationed in Sardinia Italy, deployed to the Persian Gulf, then decommissioned the ship in Norfolk, VA.
I was the Gunnery Officer and Strike Officer on the USS CURTIS WILBUR (DDG-54) from 1995-1997. I was originally stationed in San Diego, deployed to the Persian Gulf, then homeport shifted to Yokosuka, Japan where I lived for a year.
During 1994 and 1995 I earned a Masters of Engineering at Cornell University in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I worked with Jon Belina on ambulatory ECG monitors implemented on digital signal processors.
I am honored to have been awarded a Association of Naval Engineering Scholarship. This competitive award provides stipends to graduate and undergraduate students in disciplines that support Naval Engineering.
From 1990 – 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science (with Distinction) at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
I am honored to have been awarded a Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) Scholarship. This generous competitive award provides tuition and stipends to undergraduate students who intend to pursue a career in the Navy
I graduated from the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology with a High School Diploma in 1990.
I am an Eagle Scout. I earned my award in 1989 with an Eagle Scout project that entailed using a very early database system to catalog tombstones in the Fairfax County area. Most of the tombstones were under threat from development and contained genealogy information that is otherwise unavailable.