I am a senior research SDE in the Connections team of Microsoft Research.

One of my current interests is the development and the application of software to solve problems that involve massive amounts of data and computation. I am particularly concerned with scientific problems like those described in the Fourth Paradigm book. What software do scientists –who are not computer scientists– need to do data-intensive science?

In my short time at Microsoft, I have had great fun working on a series of interesting and seemingly unrelated projects. These include DryadLINQ with Dryad on Windows HPC clusters, Terapixel and other visualizations for WorldWide Telescope, and most recently Try F#.

I have a rich experience in software development and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington.

I can be reached via e-mail at: cpoulain at microsoft dot com.