Trevor A. Brown 5-123 Huron Street Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2B3 (647 ...

Trevor A. Brown
5-123 Huron Street
Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2B3
(647) 286-0462 tabrown@cs.utoronto.ca
Research Interests
• Concurrent and parallel programming
• Concurrent data structures and algorithms
o Non-blocking and wait-free algorithms
Education
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Sep. 2011 - Jan. 2013
M.Sc. Computer Science; A+ GPA
York University, First Class with Distinction, Toronto, Canada, 2006 - 2011
B.Sc. Hons. Major in Computer Science, Hons. Minor in Mathematics; high A+ GPA
Research Publications
• Brown, Trevor and Avni, Hillel. (2012) Range queries in non-blocking k-ary
search trees. Accepted Sep. 14, 2012 to appear in Proceedings of OPODIS’12.
• Brown, Trevor (presenting author) and Helga, Joanna. (2011) Non-blocking k-ary
search trees. In Proceedings of OPODIS’11.
• Brown, Trevor and Helga, Joanna. (2011) Non-blocking k-ary search trees. York
University Technical Report CSE-2011-04.
Teaching Experience
• Teaching Assistant – courses at Toronto 2011-2012
Conducted weekly tutorials (lecture style) and performed marking duties under
Faith Ellen (CSC263/265: data structures), Sam Toueg (CSC263: data structures)
and Angela Demke-Brown (CSC369: operating systems).
• Programming contest coach – Conducting workshops 2009
Held a series of mini-workshops on algorithms. Gave short lectures, involving
students in the process of solving algorithmic problems, then directed hands-on
problem solving sessions.
Industry Experience
• Sales Planning and Performance Specialist / Web Application Developer
UPS Canada (2005-2006, 2008-2009)
Redesigned sales force automation tools to handle a significantly expanded user

ase (from 25 to 500), and migrated aging desktop applications to corporate
intranet, streamlining user workflow to reduce the time it took the sales team to
negotiate the annual sales planning exercise.
o Core technologies: Java servlets, EXT-JS, AJAX, Oracle 10g
o Other technologies: Access, MS-SQL 2005, VB (6 & .NET), ASP
Academic Awards
U of T Top-up scholarship ($11,000) 2011
NSERC Alexander Graham Bell CGS ($17,500) 2011
Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($14,000 - declined) 2011
NSERC Undergraduate Research Award ($8,000) Summer 2011
York University Continuing Student Scholarship ($720) 2010
NSERC Undergraduate Research Award ($8,000) Summer 2010
NSERC Undergraduate Research Award ($6,000) Summer 2009
York Professor Ruth Hill Memorial Award ($1,045) 2008
Awarded to the three top undergraduate students in the natural sciences
York University Entrance Scholarship ($3,000 total) 2006-2009
Other Achievements
• Faculty of Science and Engineering Silver Medal (York)
• Selected for Honourable Mention in the Computing Research Association’s
Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition for 2011.
• Represented York at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contests
2007-2011 – ECNA region. In 2009, led senior school team to finish 6 th (of 115).
• Member of Dean’s Honour Roll (York) – Science and Engineering (2007-present)
• Member of Chair’s Honour Roll (York) – Mathematics and Statistics (2010)
• Nominated by York to join the Golden Key International Honour Society
(offered to the top 15% of a graduating class)
• Award winner at the 27 th annual Ontario Japanese Speech Contest (2009)
Language Abilities
• Native English
• Intermediate Japanese
Volunteer and Community Service
• Refereed papers for academic conferences: PODC’11 and DISC’12 (2011-2012)
• Developed student study resources (2008-2010)
Developed online student resources for York courses in Operations Research and
Japanese, and for would-be participants in the ACM ICPC programming contests.
They have been viewed over 80,000 times, and receive 6,500 hits per month.
• Volunteer note-taker (2008-2009)
Tutored and took notes on behalf of disabled students.