About Me

I am a member of the Mojave research group at Caltech where I work on various compiler-related research projects.

Publications

• My Master’s Thesis
• Jason Hickey, Justin D. Smith, Brian Aydemir, Nathaniel Gray, Adam Granicz, Cristian Tapus. Process Migration and Transactions Using a Novel Intermediate Language. Caltech Technical Report caltechCSTR:2002.007. 2002. [.ps.gz]
• My interactive Python hacks were written up on O’Reilly’s onlamp.com website.
• I had one of my Python recipes selected for O’Reilly’s Python Cookbook! Since the section my recipe appeared in was edited by Tim Peters himself, I consider this quite an honor, despite the fact that the recipe in question was a trivial exercise in aesthetics: Quicksort in Three Lines. Still, I got a free copy of the book, and at about $30 retail that means I made $10 per line of code. Not too shabby…

Past Research

I have a wide variety of interests and have worked on all sorts of projects. I used to do a lot of work in machine learning. Here are some of the things I did:

• Applied support vector machines to forecasting foreign exchange markets
• Studied using the ARAVQ vector quantization algorithm for learning internal representations of environments in robotics and using those representations for autonomous control
• Explored Pseudocubes, a new representation of boolean functions due to Fabrizio Luccio and Linda Pagli
• Looked for evidence of compensatory mutations in the Avida digital life environment.