Professional Information

Experience

• Research Associate at Open Systems Lab at IU
• Teaching assistant in Computer Science Department, Indiana University, for five semesters, teaching lab sections of CSCI A110: "Introduction to Computers and Computing" (an introductory computing class)

Education

• M.S. in Computer Science from Indiana University (Dec. 2003)
• B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Valparaiso University (May 2001)

Publications

Also listed on the OSL's publication list.

• "A Comparison of Vertex Ordering Algorithms for Large Graph Visualization" by Christopher Mueller, Ben Martin, and Andrew Lumsdaine. Asia-Pacific Symposium on Visualization 2007
• "Interpreting Large Visual Similarity Matrices" by Christopher Mueller, Ben Martin, and Andrew Lumsdaine. Asia-Pacific Symposium on Visualization 2007

Skills, Interests, and Hobbies

Languages

• C
• C++
• C# and the .NET Framework
• Python
• Cell BE (including on the Playstation 3) assembly
• HTML, XHTML
• CSS
• PHP

Software and Environments

• Linux, OS X, Windows XP
• Apache

General Skills

I don't claim to be expert in all of these, but I do get by.

• Web standards and accessibility
• Web design
• Graph/network theory
• Some German

Interests

• Languages
• Theology (New Testament, church history, religion and democracy)
• Mathematics, theoretical and applied
• Human-computer interaction
• Computer science (languages, programming, architecture, theory)
• Web technology and development
• Philosophy

Hobbies

• Writing
• Learning (natural) languages
• Reading (science, computer science, theology, math, science fiction, literature, history)
• Web page design and development
• Hiking
• Running