[gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] New Developer: Richard "ryao" Yao

[Sebastian Pipping <sping@gentoo.org>]

On 05/17/2012 08:31 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
> Good evening everyone,
> 
> It is my pleasure to announce a new Gentoo developer. Richard
> "ryao" Yao, is joining us from Stony Brook, New York and he will
> working on fbsd and zfs related areas. Here is how he describes
> himself:
> 
> "I hold a bachelor of science in Applied Mathematics and
> Statistics, and Computer Science, from the State University of New
> York. I am pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the same
> institution. My primary research interests involve operating system
> design, security and parallel computing. I have also written
> backend software for a RFID item tracking system used by a startup
> from my university's electrical engineering department to track
> items owned by residents in retirement homes to keep them from
> being lost in things like the laundry or trash. It runs on Gentoo
> Linux, although the source code specific to their business is not
> publically available. I am currently working on ZFS support in
> Gentoo Linux. I have a great interest in Gentoo Alt projects and I
> like RISC computing. My favorite programming languages are C and
> C++."
> 
> Please give him a warm welcome

Stony Brook just rang a bell: their file system lab
<http://www.fsl.cs.stonybrook.edu/> has loads of interesting stuff.

Good to have you, Richard!

Best,



Sebastian