Jeremy Blackburn
Ph.D. in Computer Science Student
jhblackb at mail usf edu
I enjoy video games, cats, the internet, and football.
I have a daughter named Ruby. Here she is realizing how awesome her life is going to be due to me being her dad.
I also have an awesome toy poodle. Her name is Fliggle (a reasonable approximation of "chicken wing" in Yiddish) and she's pretty amazing.
Before I began graduate research, I was an undergraduate research student of Dr. Ken Christensen at USF. Initiallly, I worked through a two semester NSF funded research project for the Energy Efficient Internet Project culminating in an article published by Dr. Dobb's Journal (online and print).
After successfully completing the two semester research, I continued work with Dr. Christensen during the Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates program at USF, focusing on the energy efficiency of peer-to-peer networks.
After the REU, I entered the 5 year Masters program at USF and successfully defended my thesis (Design and Evaluation of a Green BitTorrent for Energy-Efficient Content Distribution) April 6th, 2010.
After defending my thesis I joined the Distributed Systems Group at USF and am currently pursuing my Ph.D.
Prior to my undergraduate research, I worked as a Principal Developer and Software Engineer designing and implementing frameworks and applications for use in content delivery systems, eCommerce, digital rights management, and software licensing.
Oh, and if you care:
Reddit
OS X (on a macbook)
TextMate
Ruby (sometimes on Rails)
Python/SciPy
(and sometimes C/C++)