Michael O. Lam

Introduction

I am a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D degree in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. My undergraduate degree was a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from James Madison University. My research interests include programming languages, systems, and medical imaging. I also enjoy playing acoustic guitar and discussing religion, politics, and philosophy.

Website

My main website and blog are located at blog.freearrow.com.

Research

I am current working as a graduate research assistant for Dr. Jeff Hollingsworth on a project relating to floating-point precision program analysis in the context of high-performance scientific computing. I proposed my dissertation "Automatic Floating-Point Precision Analysis" in October 2011. For more details, see the research page on my blog.

Teaching

• TA for CMSC 330 - Fall 2007
• Instructor for CMSC 330 (Organization of Programming Languages) - Summer 2008

Presentations

In 2009, 2010, and 2011, I gave (or helped to give) the "how to succeed in graduate school" talk for incoming grad students:

• How to Succeed in Grad School 2010 (PDF)
• How to Succeed in Grad School 2011 (PDF)

Classes

I have completed the class requirements for the Ph.D program at the University of Maryland. Here are the classes that I took:

• CMSC 451 - Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms
• CMSC 631 - Program Analysis
• CMSC 660 - Scientific Computing I
• CMSC 711 - Networks
• CMSC 714 - High Performance Computing
• CMSC 724 - Database Systems
• CMSC 734 - Information Visualization
• CMSC 754 - Computational Geometry
• CMSC 828N - Computational Gene Finding and Genome Assembly
• CMSC 838F - Language-Based Security

Since completing my class requirements, I have also audited or sat in on several classes:

• CMSC 651 - Advanced Algorithms
• CMSC 818B - Distributed and Peer-to-Peer File Systems
• ai-class.com - Artificial Intelligence (Stanford online class)

Contact Info

Office: 4140 AVW

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