Professional Summary: This Ph.D. has over thirty years of professional experience as an industry practitioner and academic with a focus on database technology. After graduation he worked in for IBM designing circuits and horizontal microcode for the IBM 3090 mainframe computer. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in Applied Mathematics with research in the design and verification of concurrent data structures for databases. He currently teaches at a major University, since joining he has worked on data intensive algorithms and applications, including data structures, pattern matching, secure file systems, genomics, time series analysis, database tuning and machine learning. He is the author of six books of puzzles, a biography about great computer scientists, and technical books about database tuning, biological pattern recognition, statistics, and time series. He has co-authored sixty journal papers, nearly seventy conference papers, and eleven patents. For fun, he writes the puzzle column for Scientific American. His industry experience includes consulting on database tuning, database design, and data mining applications for Bell Labs, Telcordia, NCR, Millenium Pharmaceuticals, Morgan Stanley, Union Bank of Switzerland, lastminute.com ( UK ), Bouygues Telecom ( France ), and Business Objects ( France ) . He has served as an expert in several technical computer cases and has been deposed twice. |