Thomas Phan's Homepage

2009.Q4 :: I'm the TPC chair for MobiCASE 2009, held in San Diego on 10/26 to 10/29/2009. I was admitted into the U. Washington M.A. program in Computational Linguistics. I travelled to Vancouver, B.C., and Portland, Oregon. No snow this year in Redmond.

2009.Q3 :: Bought a bike.

2009.Q2 :: Went to Japan.

2009.Q1 :: On February 9, I reached ten years of vegetarianism.

2008.Q4 :: I survived a snowstorm in Redmond during Christmas (image on the right). I haven't been through this much snow since the time I lived in Denver.

2008.Q3 :: I joined Microsoft in Redmond in the summer of 2008. Having lived in California most of my life, this change to the Pacific Northwest is something that I'm enjoying.

2008.Q2 :: I finished my A.A. degree in Professional Photography from De Anza College in Cupertino, CA. This is my fourth college-level degree.

Walking through downtown Redmond, 12/18/2008

Research interests:

  1. Mobile pervasive / ubiquitous computing
  2. Parallel and distributed computing
  3. Online advertising
  4. Novel uses of genetic algorithms

Publications:

Links:

  1. UCLA Computer Science Department
  2. UCLA CSD Parallel Computing Lab
  3. UCLA main campus page
  4. Association for Computing Machinery
  5. IEEE Computer Society

My pages:

  1. My photography portfolio -- now in colour!
  2. My CD collection
  3. Photos (1997-2002)
  4. My reading list
  5. My UCLA Spanish class assignments (2000-2002)
  6. My audio slideshow final project from De Anza Journalism class (Spring 2008)

I've been a vegetarian since February 8, 1999.
I wrote this webpage with vim (and it probably shows).