Yes, it's a cheesy picture, but I was told to put one up.
There's a funny story behind this picture, ask me about it and I'll tell you! ;)
I am currently a Computer Science Ph.D. student at the University Of California, Davis. I got my bachelor's degree in CS from Brigham Young University in 2003. I've worked at Caldera, Lineo, Embedix, Motorola, and Freescale so I'm a bit of a Linux geek and an Open Source proponent. I've also dabbled in the OSS world myself in the PyQt, Kate, and MoinMoin projects.
ResearchI'm interested in software engineering and programming languages. I'm lucky to be working with my (sometimes wacky, but always fun) advisor Prem Devanbu, mining and analyzing bug data, mailing list archives, and source code repository history from OSS projects. We're hoping to use social network analysis techniques to understand, among other things, how the social network structure of developers of a software project is related to the structure of the software itself (hoping to validate Conway's Law).
PapersSince I'm funded on a grant from the NSF, the taxpayers of the United States are paying for the research I (and many others) do. As such, I think it is ridiculuous that access to most of the papers produced by this research is restricted and requires payment (try downloading my paper from the ACM here as an example). Fortunately, I have the right to make my own papers publicly available. I therefore list them below.