Life Changes Announcement: Academia Edition

This is just a small blog post to let people know what’s going on in my life.

I wrote a little while ago that I was thinking about starting doing a PhD. Well, thought turned into action remarkably quickly, and in October I will be starting a PhD with Dr Alistair Donaldson’s Multicore Programming Group at Imperial College London.

Despite the group title, my focus will be almost entirely on the sorts of things I’ve already been doing for the last few years and probably won’t involve that much multicore programming at all (I’m interested in them because they do a lot of work on language based fuzzing for GPUs, and also because Ally and I really hit it off and there’s a bunch of other interesting related work at Imperial). I’ll be focusing on Hypothesis and related technology, but with a goal of validating and publishing some of the research I’ve been doing on it from a more academic standpoint.

Separately, though not unrelated, to that, I’ve also started a part time research assistant job at Imperial with the same group. I’ll be doing three days a week there for the next three months, helping them with some of their work on GLFuzz (I somehow convinced Ally I knew a thing or two about programming in general and writing fuzzers in particular. Not sure how). So I am now officially an academic.

Feels weird, to be honest. Also not really sure it’s sunk in yet.

For now this doesn’t mean I’ll be around London any more often than I have been, as it will mostly be a remote working position, but come October or so when I start my PhD I will be moving back. I have decidedly mixed feelings about this, but it will be very good to see my friends and family who live there more often.

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