Alex, your love of stout beer and cooking skills will definitely come in handy on the project. Not just for Jinwon's stomach but for my own.
Welcome, sir! :) Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: <Goodman>, "Alexander (398J-Affiliate)" <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, June 21, 2013 11:29 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Welcome Alex Goodman as a PPMC member and committer! >Hi Chris, > >Thanks for getting this done in a timely matter, as now I no longer have >to >bother Kyo whenever I need to get my changes committed. > >Anyway, though everyone on the RCMES team at JPL should know me, I'll go >ahead and talk a little bit about myself. I am currently a summer intern >at >JPL working under Chris Mattmann for RCMES. Afterwards, I will be >attending >Colorado State University as a newly admitted graduate student in the >Department of Atmospheric Science. I currently hold a B.S. in Atmospheric >Science from UIUC, though I have completed several courses in Computer >Science since that was my original major. > >My research interests primarily are related to climate dynamics, model >development, and scientific computing but I am also interested in open >source software development and am a lover of the Python programming >language since it was the first one I learned. Most computing courses in >Atmospheric Science education tend to teach MATLAB, but I enthusiastically >ditched it after learning about NumPy / SciPy / matplotlib. Because of my >knowledge of those packages, my work with RCMES will primarily focus on >refactoring the evaluation toolkit and developing the visualization >functionality, though I hope to contribute to the more technical parts of >the project as well. > >As for personal interests... I am not sure if it is appropriate to mention >some of those here but I love to cook (especially those dishes that must >be >simmered for several hours) and am also an avid drinker of craft beer >(which was part of reason that I chose to attend CSU in Fort Collins as >there are many breweries in town). > >Anyway, hopefully I didn't bore any of you too much with that, but I am >pleased to be a member of the project. Thanks again! > >Alex > > >-- >Alex Goodman
