My name full name is Troy William Steinbauer and I am a Masters student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I received my Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering at UCSB in June 2010. I am supporting myself though graduate school working as a Research Assistant, a Teaching Assistant, and holding an internship as a developer for a IT Consulting Company. In my spare time I enjoy surfing and playing water polo, and occasional video gaming. A copy of my resume can be found here.

• University of California, Santa Barbara
  Masters, Computer Science
  2010 - 2011
• University of California, Santa Barbara
  Bachelor's of Science, Computer Engineering
  2006 - 2010

I currently am a Research Assistant for UCSB's CURRENT Lab. Led by professor Ben Zhao, the CURRENT Lab covers a wide range of large-scale networked systems, more recently focusing on Online Social Networks. Most recently I have been working with Christo Wilson on developing a distributed online social network that will grant users greater privacy without sacrificing any functionality.

• Privacy, Availability and Economics in the Polaris Mobile Social Network
  Christo Wilson, Troy Steinbauer, Gang Wang, Alessandra Sala, Haitao Zheng and Ben Y. Zhao
  Proceedings of 12th ACM Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile)
  Phoenix, Arizona, March 2011

I have been a Teaching Assistant for a few classes at UCSB. This can consist of directly interacting with students, leading discussions, creation and grading of homework and exams, and private office hours.

• F10 - CS32 - Object-Oriented Design and Implementation
• W10 - CS176B - Network Computing