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An avid garage kit builder who's crazy about interesting research projects in computer science, that's all you need to know about me...

I am an n-th year graduate student, currently working with Dieter Fox

For the past 10 years...

1/91-6/91 Went to Shoreline Community College trying to get the most amount of credit in the least amount of time.
7/91-6/94

Undergraduate in University of Washington. BS in Computer Science, Statistics and Mathamatics.

I have done 2 senior projects in computer scienece: implementing a C++ version of the planner UCPOP and implementing a browser in C++ for an object oriented design system.

6/94-9/94 Worked in Geoworks, implementing an IRDA protocol in 8086 assembly language.
9/94-6/96 Back to UW for Masters. Implemented a query planner Occam. Paper published in AAAI.
6/96-11/97 Worked in the Internet startup NetBot, founded by my advisors. Worked on an online shopping agent.
11/97-10/98 NetBot was bought by Excite, so now I work in Excite. Worked on porting the shopping agent to Solaris and the associated changes in server architecture, mostly on front ends. Done a few projects with Perl and Oracle later on, including the mail service at mail.excite.com and an internal content update server.
10/98 Resigned from Excite and back to my research in Internet stuff.
00 - present Switched to working on robotics.