About the 2011-2012 Team

Alex Korzo

Alex is senior at the University of Minnesota and will be graduating in December 2011 with a B.S. in Computer Science. He is currently employed as a Software Developer Intern for Maverick Software Consulting developing Maverick internal web-based tools. At Chipmark he is a Firefox lead. Outside of work and school he enjoys travelling, taking road trips, listening to music and spending time with friends.

Ayana Cole

Ayana Cole bio.

Bela Demtchouk

Bela Demtchouk info.

Cheng Shen

Cheng Shen bio.

Chris Lu

Chris Lu bio.

Dehang Zheng

Dehang is a fourth year undergraduate in Computer Science with a minor in Management. His current role at Chipmark is Servlet Architect. Hobbies include traveling, music, basketball, and watching videos on YouTube.

Dilafruz Umarova

Dilafruz is a senior at the University of Minnesota and will be graduating in May of 2012. She is majoring in Computer Science with an emphasis in Computer Networks and Security. Currently, Dilafruz is a software engineer intern at Maverick Software Consulting where she does C#/Java development and testing for big-name clients like Thomson Reuters. Dilafruz is a Team Lead for Internet Explorer plug-in for 2011-2012. In her spare time, she enjoys belly dancing, running, and baking.

Eric Bartusch

Eric is a junior at the University of Minnesota and will be graduating in Autumn 2012 with a B.S. in Computer Science. Currently, he works as a Software Engineering Intern at Maverick Software Consulting developing internal web tools for FindLaw. He is the Database Architect for this year's Chipmark team. In his spare time, Eric likes to swing dance, walk backward as an Admissions Ambassador, or waste hours playing the greatest system of all time, the Nintendo 64. Obviously a fantastic person overall and obviously not the author of this paragraph.

Huseyin Erenoglu

Huseyin will be graduating in Spring 2012 from the University of Minnesota with a B.S. in Computer Science. Currently, he is working at Maverick Software Consulting as a software engineer intern developing web applications for Thomson Reuters while, after graduation, he will be employed by Microsoft as a Technical Account Manager. Huseyin is the Web Lead for Chipmark with his main focus being site design and content management. Outside of school and work, he likes listening to music, watching TED Talks, and hanging out with people.

Jim Murray

Jim Murray bio.

Ryan Shea

Ryan will be graduating in Fall 2012 from the University of Minnesota with a B.S. in Computer Science and a Minor in Mathematics. He is currently employed as a Software Engineer Intern for Goodrich Sensors and Integrated Systems on the Cockpit Data Management project. Ryan is the Performance Engineer for Chipmark and also works with the Database and Servlet Architects. Outside of school and work, he enjoys frisbee golf, listening to music, snowboarding, and spending time with friends.

Stan Grin

Stan will be graduating in the spring of 2012 with a B.S. in computer science. He is currently employed at Scrimmage, where he holds the position of a iOS developer. He also is a consultant for South West Transit, developing mobile apps. At Chipmark he is a Feature Lead, responsible for being the process driver in implementing features of Chipmark for 2011-12. Outside of education and Chipmark he enjoys playing guitar and listening to good music.

John Riedl

John Riedl is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota where he has been a faculty member since 1990. In 1992 Dr. Riedl co-founded the GroupLens project on collaborative information filtering, and has been co-directing it since. GroupLens seeks to develop an understanding of the engineering science of the social web, by developing principles that guide the development of effective large-scale collaboration tools. Recently, GroupLens Research has been exploring ways in which recommender systems can be used to study and enhance social structures on the Web. Dr. Riedl received his Bachelor degree in mathematics from The University of Notre Dame in 1983, his Master degree in computer science in 1985, and his Ph.D. in computer science in 1990 from Purdue University.

He has been named ACM Fellow and IEEE Senior Member, and is founding co-editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems journal. He has co-authored Best Paper winners at the IUI, WikiSym (twice), CSCW, and Data Engineering conferences. Riedl has also received the MIT Sloan School Award for Innovation in E-Commerce, the Computer Science teaching award (four times) and the George Taylor Award for Exceptional Contributions to Teaching. Riedl has authored over 100 publications, including one book and many papers.