I'm Chris Bunch, and I'm a MS/Ph.D student in the Computer Science department here at UC Santa Barbara. My research interests are all over the map right now, but very generally fall into the area of concurrent, distributed programming languages. I'm working with Chandra Krintz and am a member of the Racelab. Some such topics I'm looking into currently are the Pi-Calculus, Stackless Python, and Scala.
Summary of Research Work Thus Far
Spring 2008
- Automatic Verification of MVC Applications Using the WebFlow Framework (CS 267, Automated Verification): Working with Taylor Ettema to find parts of the MVC architecture that can be exploited by automated verification techniques.
- Computation + Geometry = Joy! (CS 235, Computational Geometry): Learning about various techniques used in the field of computational geometry and how they can be improved.
Winter 2008
- Nothing is Certain (CS 270, Operating Systems): Working with Raj Chohan to build a fault-tolerant distributed file system using UML, SLIRP, and FUSE. Having drawn off the insights (and failures) of dozens of operating systems and file systems reviewed over this quarter, will we be able to do any better?
- The Wizard of Oz (CS 263, Implementations of Modern Programming Languages): The Oz programming language integrates an incredible number of programming language styles and constructs. But how usable does that make it?
Fall 2007
- Multigrid Methods with CUDA (CS 290I, GPGPU and 3DUI): Working with Tobias Hollerer and Brent Oster to implement approximate the solutions to the heat equation with multigrid methods. As this has already been done before, we are using the GPU to expand this work into new territories.
- State of the Cell (CS 290N, Parallel Architectures): Working with Fred Chong and Nelson Ijih to investigate the true possibilities behind the novel Cell architecture. Is it as difficult as people let on? What's so hard about it? Check it out and see!
Spring 2007
- fMRI Analysis Automator: Worked with Beau Ances (UCSD) and Jack Alanen (CSUN) to create a solid user interface using Java Swing and process to automate data collection and manipulation of functional MRI (fMRI) data collected over several years through MATLAB.
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