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SUMMARY:Speaker Lunch – Careers Panel - Gavin Bierman\, Jon Crowcroft\, 
 Anil Madhavapeddy\, David Reid
DTSTART:20131128T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:WHY?\n\nThis will be a unique opportunity to hear about the ex
 perience of junior and senior researchers from academia (CL) and industry 
 (Microsoft Research\, Metaswitch Networks)\, that can help you in making b
 etter choices in your own career.\n \nWHAT?\n\nDuring this session\, our p
 anellists will tell you about the decisions that shaped their career along
  with some valuable recommendations and information about important opport
 unities.\n \nWHO?\n\nOur panel members will be: \n* Gavin Bierman\, Micros
 oft Research\n* Jon Crowcroft\, Computer Laboratory\n* Anil Madhavapeddy\,
  Computer Laboratory\n* David Reid\, Metaswitch Networks\n\nWHERE?\n\nRoom
  FW26\, FREE lunch as usual.\n\nBIOS:\n\n*Gavin Bierman* is a senior resea
 rcher at Microsoft Research. He has worked on programming language type sy
 stems and semantics\, query languages\, verification\, dynamic updating an
 d a variety of other topics. At Microsoft he has worked with the C#\, Type
 Script and SQL product teams. Before joining Microsoft\, he was a lecturer
  at the Computer Laboratory\, where was variously a PhD student\, research
  fellow\, and postdoc.\n\n*Jon Crowcroft* has been the Marconi Professor o
 f Communications Systems\nin the Computer Laboratory since October 2001. H
 e has worked in the\narea of Internet support for multimedia communication
 s for over 30\nyears. Three main topics of interest have been scalable mul
 ticast\nrouting\, practical approaches to traffic management\, and the des
 ign of\ndeployable end-to-end protocols. Current active research areas are
 \nOpportunistic Communications\, Social Networks\, and techniques and\nalg
 orithms to scale infrastructure-free mobile systems. He leans\ntowards a "
 build and learn" paradigm for research.\n\nHe graduated in Physics from Tr
 inity College\, University of Cambridge\nin 1979\, gained an MSc in Comput
 ing in 1981 and PhD in 1993\, both from\nUCL. He is a Fellow the Royal Soc
 iety\, a Fellow of the ACM\, a Fellow of \nthe British Computer Society\, 
 a Fellow of the IET and the \nRoyal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of
  the IEEE.\n\nHe likes teaching\, and has published a few books based on l
 earning\nmaterials.\n\n*Anil Madhavapeddy* is a Senior Research Fellow at 
 Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge\, based in the Systems Rese
 arch Group in the Computer Laboratory. He was on the original team that de
 veloped the Xen hypervisor\, and helped develop an industry-leading cloud 
 toolstack.  This XenServer product has been deployed on millions of hosts 
 and drives critical infrastructure for Fortune 500 companies.\n\nAnil had 
 a diverse background in industry at NetApp\, NASA and Internet Vision prio
 r to obtaining his PhD in 2006 from Cambridge. He is an active member of t
 he open-source development community with the OpenBSD operating system\, s
 teers the Commercial Uses of Functional Programming workshop\, and serves 
 on the boards of startup companies. He recently published Real World OCaml
  with O'Reilly\, and currently directs the OCaml Labs group within the Com
 puter Laboratory to unlock the practical benefits of functional programmin
 g in the construction of complex computer systems.\n\n*David Reid* worked\
 , before university\, in a research lab at Shell Global Solutions\, under 
 the Year in Industry scheme.  He read Computer Science in Cambridge 2008-2
 011\, and did an internship with Disney's Black Rock Studio before his thi
 rd year.  After leaving university\, he spent a while tutoring secondary s
 chool students in maths and physics and started working towards an Open Un
 iversity maths degree.  He joined Metaswitch Networks in early 2013\, taki
 ng on the role of a software engineer for the company's Universal Media Ga
 teway product.  I says it is too early in his career to know exactly where
  it'll progress\, but Metaswitch is large enough to have plenty of opportu
 nities within it and the flexibility to accommodate employees ambitions.
LOCATION:Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building\, Room FW26
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