Contact

A.V. Williams Building
Room 4160, Desk 4
College Park, MD 20742

Office Extension -
    x52724
Academic Electronic Mail -
    almazan -at- cs.umd.edu
AIM and Y! Msg -
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Affiliations

MIND Lab
CSD at UMCP
UMIACS
UMD/UMCP
Personal Site

Christian B. Almazan

A.V. Williams Building
College Park, MD 20742
almazan -at- cs.umd.edu

Education

Ph.D. Student - Since August 2003

University of Maryland at College Park
College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences
Advisor - Professor Ashok K. Agrawala
Research Topic - Information Dynamics

M.S. Computer Science - Graduated May 2005
(09/2003 - 05/2005)

University of Maryland at College Park
College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences
GPA - 3.900
Non-Thesis Scholarly Paper -
    Information Dynamics: Understanding Information in Computer and Software Systems

B.A. Computer Science with Honors - Graduated May 2003
(09/1999 - 05/2003)

New York University
College of Arts and Sciences
GPA - 3.766, Major GPA: 3.881, magna cum laude
Recipient - Computer Science Prize for Academic Excellence in the Honors Program
Recipient - Founders' Day Award
Dean's List - Fall 2001, Fall 2002

A.A. General Studies - Graduated May 2001
(09/1999 - 05/2001)

New York University
School of Continuing and Professional Studies
GPA: 3.600
Dean's List - Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2000

Research

Graduate Research Assistant
(05/2004 - Present)

University of Maryland at College Park
Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory (MIND Lab)
Supervised by Professor Ashok K. Agrawala

Undergradaute Research Assistant
(05/2002 - 08/2003)

New York University
Parallel and Distributed Systems Group
Supervised by Professor Vijay Karamcheti and Eric Freudenthal

Notes

Reviewer for WCNC 2010 - Services & Applications.
Reviewer for JSAC-MCN 2010.
Reviewer for Mobilware 2008.

Please visit my projects page for information regarding research projects undertaken.

Publications

Please visit my publications page for a listing of all of my publications.

Teaching

Please visit my teaching page for teaching assistant assignments.

Professional

Web Developer Consultant
(06/2006 - Present)

Please visit my consulting (off-site) page for more information.

Web Developer and Web Architect Consultant
(12/2001 - 01/2002)

New York Connect - New York, NY

Web Developer, System Administrator, and Technical Support Specialist
(09/1998 - 09/2001)

New York Connect - New York, NY

Memberships

Member of the ACM, since 2003
Member of the IEEE, since 2004
Member of the IEEE Computer Society, since 2004

Certifications

CompTIA i-Net+ (1999/11/05 #DFBDTT3446)
CompTIA Network+ (1999/09/15 #DD0DTT3306)
CompTIA A+ (1999/08/23 #DB7DTT1476)

Miscellaneous

Security Clearance with the Washington/Baltimore HIDTA, in 2004

References

Available Upon Request