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Jeffrey Alan Turkstra

...but what about THE FOAM?!

The man behind the electronics, saxophone, piano, and quite possibly that explosion that happened down the street...

Jeff Turkstra grew up in Grand Haven, MI. He received the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2004 and the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2007.

From August 2005 through July 2006, he was a Charles C. Chappelle Fellow at Purdue. For the three academic years spanning 2005-2008, Jeff served as an Instructor for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Since June 2009, Jeff has been a full time Software Engineer with the HUBzero project in the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing at Purdue. He is also pursuing his Ph.D. part time, under Professor David G. Meyer.

Jeff's research interests are primarily in the areas of operating systems and distributed systems. Previous research activities include a prototype thin client EDA environment based on Sun's GridEngine and Sun Ray Server software as well as a large storage area network (SAN) research project operated by the Engineering Computer Network. His current work centers on a distributed, virtual operating system known simply as "mx."

Jeff was the recipient of the Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2006 and the Magoon Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant in 2005.

Jeff also enjoys occasionally dabbling in digital system design and has been working with Microfluidic Innovations, LLC since 2009 on the development of software and hardware control systems for prototype microfluidics chips.

More information is available at Jeff's website, http://turkeyland.net/.