Jeffrey Jestes

 

PhD in Computing

School of Computing, University of Utah

Office: MEB 4158

Address:
50 S. Central Campus Drive
School of Computing, University of Utah
Salt Lake City UT 84112

Email: jestes AT cs DOT utah DOT edu

Phone: (801) 648-9790
Fax: (801) 581-5843

Advisor: Feifei Li

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I have earned the title of Doctor of Philosophy at the School of Computing at University of Utah. I am actively seeking positions as a Research Engineer, Software Developer, Data Analyst, and Cluster Administrator. Please see the [plain-text] or [PDF] version of my resume!!!

PhD Dissertation

Efficient Summarization Techniques for Massive Data

Research Interests

Summarizing massive data in distributed and parallel frameworks; ranking, monitoring, and tracking big data; scalable query processing in large databases; uncertainties and fuzzy string and textual data.

Projects

  1. Data Summaries for Massive Data
  2. Ranking and Monitoring Probabilistic Data

Recent Publications

Professional Services

Biography

Jeffrey Jestes graduated from N.B. Forrest High School, with honors as valedictorian, in Jacksonville, FL in 2004. He received the B.S. degree in computer science, with honors as Summa Cum Laude, from Florida State University in 2008. He was a PhD student in the Computer Science Department, Florida State University between August 2008 and July 2011. He earned his doctorate from the School of Computing, University of Utah, in July 2013. He has interned twice with Microsoft Research in the eXtreme Computing Group during his PhD, studying solutions to problems in massive data and cloud computing. His current research interests include summarizing massive data in distributed and parallel frameworks; ranking, monitoring, and tracking big data; scalable query processing in large databases.