Ben Brothers
ben@gwaihir.org
7833 Wood Reed Dr.
Madison, WI 53719
(608) 845-1728
Objective
I'm currently happily employed.
Education
- Received MS in electrical engineering, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002
- GPA 3.83/4.0
- Concentrated on computer architecture and processor design
- Thesis entitled "A multifarious framework for
network-based fault injection"
- Received BS in electrical engineering, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000
- Graduated with high honors, GPA 3.83/4.0
- Completed minor in technology and management
Recent Employment
- Epic Systems Corporation in Madison, Wisconsin from June 2004 to present
- Software designer, doing research and development for the
healthcare industry
- Hewlett Packard in Cupertino, California from May to August 2003
- Researched IA-64 speculation in a fault-tolerant system for NonStop Labs
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of
Technology from June to August 2001
- Design work at the Center for Integrated Space Microsystems
- Developed a fault injector and monitoring device for an
IEEE 1394 system bus architecture
- Analyzed the performance of an IEEE 1394 network
- Center for Reliable High-Performance Computing, University of
Illinois from August 2000 to May 2004
- Graduate research assistant in Coordinated Science
Laboratory
- Designed and developed a PCB board that can intercept and modify
traffic on arbitrary networks
- Performed reliability studies of a Myrinet network
- Research into fault-tolerant distributed virtual machine technology for wireless networks
- Dell Computer in Austin, Texas from May to August 1999 and June to August 2000
- Board testing and revision for IA-64 server development
- Designed and installed a client network to simulate loads for server testing
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University
of Illinois from January 1999 to May 2000
- Undergraduate teaching assistant for analog signal processing course
- duties include grading papers, proctoring exams and
helping students
Computer experience
- ANSI C, Cache, HTML, Java, LISP, Perl, VHDL, Visual Basic
and x86 assembler
- experience with Cadence Concept and Allegro, OrCAD, and Leonardo
development and simulation tools
- experience with AIX, BeOS, HPUX, IRIX, Linux, SunOS, Windows
Honors and Publications
- Workload studies in support of an EPIC-based fault-tolerant system design,CAECW-7, February 2004.
- An Adaptive Architecture for Monitoring and Failure Analysis of
High-Speed Networks, Proceedings of the 2002 International
Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, pp. 69-79, June 2002.
- Chancellor's Scholar, James Scholar, Dean's List, National
Merit Scholar, Illinois State Scholar, Robert C. Byrd Scholar,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Departmental Honors
References available upon request.
Last update June 2004. Return to my homepage.