I have undergraduate degrees in Science and Electrical Engineering, both with honors, from the University of Melbourne (Australia). In Science I majored in Mathematics and Physics. I won several prizes for coming top of subjects (Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Electrical Engineering) and for the best honours year project in Mathematics: ``Algebraic Approximants in Statistical Mechanics.'' I am a very competent computer programmer, as indicated by being in the group of three that won the ACM international computer programming contest in 1992.
I then did a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Melbourne under Professor Tony Guttmann, ``On the behaviour of self avoiding walks and related problems''. It was refereed by S G Wittington, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada, and by George A Baker, Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics group of the theoretical division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. This thesis described efficient algorithms for enumerating a wide variety of combinatorial objects. I then implemented these algorithms and analysed the results.
I am currently performing a second PhD at Stanford University (USA) in Electrical Engineering under Professor Robert Cannon. I am working on using carrier phase differential GPS as a sensor for robotic control of model helicopters.