Jeff M Phillips (original) (raw)

Born and raised in the suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin by parents John and Geri Phillips. One sister, Michelle, now in Washington DC.
Married Bei Wang in summer 2009. Two sons Stanley, born in 2013, and Max, born 2015.

Received undergraduate education at Rice University. Graduated with a BS in Computer Science and a BA in Mathematics in 2003. Former member of Jones Residential College. Former member of the Kavraki Lab with Lydia Kavraki.
Interned at Draper Labs near NASA JSC with Nazareth Bedrossian in 2002.
Interned at AT&T Research -- Shannon Labs with Suresh Venkatasubramanian in 2005.
Interned at Yahoo! Research with Michael Mahoney in 2007.
Attended graduate school in the Duke Computer Science Departmentwith advisorPankaj K. Agarwal. Successfully defended my PhD thesis January 19, 2009.
Served as Postdoctoral Associate in the Duke Computer Science Departmentwith supervisorPankaj K. Agarwal.
Served as aCI Postdoctoral Fellowat theUniversity of Utahwith mentorSuresh Venkatasubramanian.
Appointed as Assistant Professor in theSchool of Computingat the University of Utahin Fall 2011.
In Summer 2017, received tenure, and now serve as Associate Professor in theSchool of Computingat the University of Utah.

Some of this material is based upon work supported by the NSF under Grants #0937060 and #1019343 to the Computing Research Association for the CIFellows Project, CCF-1115677, IIS-1251019, CCF 1350888, ACI-1443046, CNS-1514520, and CNS-1564287.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the Computing Research Association. The funding makes much of this work possible -- thank you!