pedrito maynard-zhang: a sketch
professional
i am a software development engineer for microsoft in the bing local search group. before this,
i developed software at amazon.com
in the customer behavior group. prior to developing software, i was
doing my other passion, teaching as an assistant professor in the department of computer science
& systems analysis at miami
university in oxford, ohio. (nope, no affiliation to that
other miami.) however, as much as i loved teaching there, it
was just too far from the west coast and family. so here we are, back
in the wonderful pacific northwest. anyway, i received my phd in
computer science in 2001 from the department of computer science
at stanford university (and
picked up a masters of science in computer science along the way). i
did my bachelors in electrical engineering at walla walla university (then walla
walla college), a liberal arts university in southeastern
washington state. my general area of expertise is artificial
intelligence with an emphasis on multi-agent systems, knowledge
representation and reasoning, and machine learning.
for more information, see my:
personal
i was born in michigan, usa. my parents are jamaican, so i am an
abj. i've lived in jamaica, puerto rico, the people's republic of
china, and the states of michigan, washington, california, and ohio
here in the usa. i currently live in issaquah, washington, a satellite
city of seattle, with my wife margaret, daughter jasmine, and son
leo. i practice and teach traditional chinese martial arts; my shifus
are master adam hsu of
the adam hsu kung fu school and
master robert jones of the academy of kempo martial arts;
my primary style is northern longfist. i also love traveling; i have
had the great fortune to visit israel, sweden, norway, italy, japan,
france, mexico, and canada in addition to the countries i've lived
in. i also passionately enjoy an eclectic variety of music (from tori amos to plumb, reba mcentire to yo-yo ma, prince to metallica), stories (books,
movies, plays, you name it), food from around the world, stimulating
conversations, backpacking, volleyball, and racquetball.
