PhD - Programming languages
Yes. I was an algorithms major at the University of New Brunswick, and did a minor in mathematics.
Why
did
you
choose
graduate
studies
and
why
did
you
choose
graduate
studies
in
CS?
I
came
to
graduate
school
partially
for
the
ability
to
work
on
my
own
projects,
rather
than
those
selected
by
my
employer,
but
mostly
because
I
really
enjoy
teaching
and
want
to
get
a
job
as
a
university
professor.
As
for
why
CS,
it's
the
field
that
I
know,
and
there
are
a
lot
of
problems
here
I
find
fascinating.
What
is
your
research
area
and
why
did
you
choose
it?
I'm
working
on
building
efficient
abstract
data
structures
for
vectorized
computer
architectures
such
as
GPGPU.
I've
always
enjoyed
the
theoretical
aspect
of
data
structures
and
algorithm
design,
and
this
project
lets
me
combine
my
interest
in
algorithmic
theory
with
solving
practical
problems
for
people
writing
software
for
modern
parallel
platforms.
Who
is
your
supervisor
and
why
did
you
choose
to
work
with
him/her?
My
supervisor
is
Dr.
Peter
Buhr
of
the
programming
languages
research
group.
When
I
was
looking
at
Waterloo,
I
read
some
papers
of
his
that
he'd
linked
from
his
faculty
webpage,
and
was
quite
intrigued
by
the
combination
of
programming
languages
and
parallel
and
concurrent
programming
research
he
does,
which
meshed
well
with
my
interest
in
algorithms
and
desire
to
do
a
practical
parallel
programming
project.
Why
did
you
choose
Waterloo
for
graduate
studies?
If
you
did
your
undergraduate
at
Waterloo,
why
did
you
stay?
Waterloo
has
a
world-class
computer
science
program,
arguably
the
best
in
Canada,
so
it
was
on
my
short
list
as
long
as
I
had
been
considering
graduate
studies.
What
made
it
my
top
choice
was
honestly
non-academic
factors:
my
wife
is
a
history
PhD
student,
and
Waterloo
had
a
history
department
doing
research
that
appealed
to
her
as
well
as
having
a
computer
science
department
doing
research
that
appealed
to
me.
Also,
I
don't
care
much
for
big
cities,
so
the
prospect
of
moving
somewhere
like
Toronto,
Montreal,
or
Vancouver
didn't
appeal
to
me.
What
sort
of
research/projects
are
you
working
on?
My
current
research
project
is
a
multi-precision
integer
simplex
solver
for
GPU;
I'm
using
it
as
a
proof
of
concept
for
my
ideas
about
efficient
vectorized
data
structures.
What
classes
are
you
taking?
What
has
been
your
favourite
class
so
far?
I'm
currently
taking
a
course
on
functional
parsing,
covering
parsing
techniques
from
functional
programming;
my
favourite
course
so
far
was
a
graduate
seminar
on
space
efficient
data
structures,
which
was
pretty
much
what
it
sounds
like.