I am looking for serious technical challenges in the areas of information and computation. I have extensive background developing both computational science codes as well as systems programming experience with large scale distributed systems. I know Java, C++, C, C#, Python, Haskell, Scala and many other programming languages. I have a strong statistics, probability and information theory background which I'm interested in applying to machine learning and data-mining problems.

Software Engineer @ I'm a technical lead on the revenue team and lead developer on the scalding project (github.com/twitter/scalding). My work is mostly in building large data pipelines in scala on Hadoop to analyze and model our advertising market. From May 2011 to Present (4 years 8 months) Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering @ Conducted independent research in P2P networking, Grid Computing, Distributed Systems and Quantum Information Theory. Wrote grant proposals to fund research. Lead a group of M.S. and Ph.D. students in research. From August 2004 to May 2011 (6 years 10 months) Post-doctoral Researcher in Electrical Engineering @ Conducted research in the area of Complex Networks, including graph-based spam filtering, and P2P search algorithms and network protocols. From June 2002 to August 2004 (2 years 3 months) Graduate Student Researcher @ Did research towards the Ph.D. degree under Vwani P. Roychowdhury. From August 1996 to May 2002 (5 years 10 months)

Ph.D., Physics @ University of California, Los Angeles From 1996 to 2002 Bachelors, Physics, Mathematics @ Georgia Institute of Technology From 1993 to 1996 P. Boykin is skilled in: Distributed Systems, Hadoop, Algorithms, Python, Java, Machine Learning, Scala, C++, Git, Artificial Intelligence, Programming, MapReduce, C, Data Mining, Computer Science