Research Interests

My current interests are in the following areas:

• Languages (C++, OOP/generics, expressiveness, patterns)
• Scalability (parallelism, networking, replication/caching)
• Distributed object systems
• Dynamic systems/simulations/chaos/agents/AI-life
• Genetic programming/algorithms

Ph.D. Thesis

Completed my Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Computer Science at the University of Manitoba.

Final thesis titled: "A Parallel Processing Library for User-Friendly Applications." The result of this work is the design, development and implementation of a parallel application development message passing interface in C++, with multi-threaded and network-based back-end implementations.

It is available here (PDF) or from the University.

Publications

This list includes only the most interesting ones and the ones where I am the primary author:

• "Scopira: an open source C++ framework for biomedical data analysis applications"
  Software-Practice and Experience, 39, 641-660 (2009).
  DOI:10.1002/spe.915
  PDF
• "Scopira: An open source C++ framework for biomedical data analysis applications - a research project report,"
  OOPSLA, 17th ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, San Diego, USA, October 16-20, 138-139 (2005).
  DOI:10.1145/1094855.1094902
  Paper Poster
• "The Utility of Graph Theoretic Software Metrics: A Case Study,"
  IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Montreal, Canada, May 4-7, 2, 1309-1312 (2003).
  Info Link
  PDF
• "Scopira - A System for the Analysis of Biomedical Data,"
  IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Winnipeg, Canada, May 12-15, 2, 1093-1098 (2002).
  DOI:10.1109/CCECE.2002.1013099
  PDF
• "A Classification Canvas for the Analysis of Biomedical Data,"
  IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto, Canada, May 13-16, 2, 1391-1396 (2001).
  DOI:10.1109/CCECE.2001.933658
  PDF