UIUC is my seventh university!
- For two years before coming to Illinois, I was a research associate (that's
pronounced "postdoc") in the Computer Science
Department at Duke. I was affiliated with
the Center for Geometric Computing;
I worked mostly with Pankaj Agarwal.
- I got my Ph.D. in
computer science at
U.C. Berkeley in 1996. My
advisor was
Raimund Seidel.
- During the fall of 1994, I followed Raimund to the
Saarland University in
Saarbrücken, Germany, officially as
a research associate in the
computer science department, and
unofficially as a visitor to MPI.
- I got my master's degree in information and
computer science at U.C. Irvine in 1992.
My advisor there was
David Eppstein, curator of the
fabulous Geometry
Junkyard.
- I was one of the first undergraduate majors in the
computer science
department at Rice,
where I got my bachelor's degree in 1987. Please don't ask me
about my GPA.
- I took a few math classes at Vanderbilt when I was in high school.
I've visited a few other places long enough to do some research: Smith College, Free University Berlin, Utrecht University, the International Computer Science Institute, Ohio State University, and INRIA Sophia Antipolis.
I've had nineteen different "permanent" addresses since I graduated from high school in 1983. My last apartment was the first place I'd ever lived for more than two years (but almost never more than thirty consecutive days). I've also lived for five weeks in La Paz, Bolivia; a month in Northhampton, Massachussetts; a month on US highways between California and North Carolina; and several months (in small intervals) in Columbus, Ohio.
In October 2001, I finally bought a house in Urbana, suggesting to many people that I've finally "settled down", whatever that means.
Jeff Erickson
(jeffe@cs.uiuc.edu)
16 Dec 2001