I am presently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science under the supervision of professor R. N. Horspool.

I completed my M.Sc. under the supervision of professor J. D. Aycock at the Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary. My thesis concerned the design of a completely new virtual machine, Mamba, for the Python programming language. Mamba is, more correctly, a virtual machine framework which facilitates researching, testing, and benchmarking various methods to dynamically optimize Python programs.

Internship at Sun Microsystems Laboratories where I worked in the Jackpot group with Michael Van de Vanter and James Gosling on a refactoring browser for the Netbeans IDE.

Worked at IBM Ottawa Fall 2004 on the J9 VM.

Working at IBM Toronto in 2005 on the Testarossa JIT.

• Compiler Construction, particularly:
  • Partial Redundancy Elimination
  • Applications of Static Program Analysis Methods
    (particularly Abstract Interpretation)
  • Parallelization and Vectorization
• Virtual Machines
• Garbage Collection