I am a PhD candidate at Brown University, working with Maurice Herlihy (Brown University) and Justin Gottschlich (Intel Labs). Research interests: transactional memory, NUMA algorithms, lock free data structures and scalable synchronization methods in general. I got a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Brown in May 2011. Before coming to Brown, I got a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Jacobs University Bremen (Germany) and I did a semester abroad in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Multiprocessor Synchronization - Maurice Herlihy
Graphics - Andy Van Dam
Topics in Distributed and Parallel Computing - Maurice Herlihy
Distributed Systems - Tom Doeppner
Solving Hard Problems in Combinatorial Optimization - Pascal Van Hentenryck
Operating Systems - Tom Doeppner
Topics in Database Management (Non-standard, Web-scale Databases) - Stan Zdonik
Topics in Distributed Databases and Systems (Human-in-the-Loop Data Management) - Ugur Cetintemel