Joshua M. Hyman

                       PO Box 260818    (818) 395-9319
                    Encino, CA 91426    josh.hyman@gmail.com


[ Education ]

UCLA School of Engineering                                     Los Angeles, CA 
    Ph.D. Computer Science                                       December 2009

UCLA School of Engineering                                     Los Angeles, CA 
    M.S. Computer Science                                           March 2008

UCLA School of Engineering                                     Los Angeles, CA 
    B.S. Computer Science and Engineering                            June 2005
    Eta Kappa Nu Honors Society Member and Project Chair
    GPA: 3.6
        

[ Skills ]

 :: Fluent in: C, C++, and Python
 :: Skilled in Linux/UNIX environments
 :: An understanding of computer networking concepts and distributed systems


[ Work Experience ]

Google Inc.                                                    Los Angeles, CA
    Principal Software Engineer                       September 2004 - Present
          
    Responsible for personal search infrastructure, which consists of several
    interacting distributed systems to safely (from a privacy perspective)
    crawl, index, and serve ACL'd content. Also responsible for natural
    language infrastructure, which consists of several interacting distributed
    systems to produce semantic interpretations for queries. I serve as the
    Technical Lead and Manager for a team of 30 engineers that interacts with
    several globally distributed remote teams.

    Previously, I helped implement BigTable, distributed storage solution.
    Updated the build system to use cross compilers and a distcc based
    distributed build cluster. Built a distcc compile cluster and optimized
    distcc to handle concurrent compile jobs. Responsible for video search
    as well as parts of images search.
    

IBM Almaden Research Center                                       San Jose, CA
    Extreme Blue Technical Intern                   June 2004 - September 2004

    Designed and Implemented a Linux research project using Python.  Presented
    this project to IBM Executives and Distinguished Engineers.  Performed
    design and code reviews for other projects in the lab.


Universal Studios                                           Universal City, CA
    Software Engineering Intern                      January 2004 - April 2004

    Designed, developed, and deployed a security analysis and remediation tool
    to provide more restrictive windows share and NTFS permissions Windows NT
    and Windows 2000 servers.  Web interfaces were provided to server owners
    and the operations group to monitor the tools progress.  Developed in
    ASP.NET and VB.NET with a MSSQL back end database.
    

UCLA Network Research Lab                                      Los Angeles, CA
    Research Assistent                                June 2003 - January 2004
   
    Developed a license enforcement addition for a wireless networking
    optimized TCP stack by providing kernel modifications and a system daemon
    to authenticate against a remote license server; using C, Python, public
    key cryptography, and a MySQL backend on FreeBSD.  Updated Super Scalar
    processor simulation to include power and temperature modeling; using C++
    and Java on RedHat Linux.


[ Papers and Patents ]

  :: Josh Hyman, Joel Ingram. Domain level clustering.
     US Patent 9,053,417, 2015
  :: Josh Hyman, Dustin Boswell. Leasing prioritized tasks.
     US Patent 8,930,946, 2015
  :: Josh Hyman. Imagers as Sensors: Using Natural Visible Light Images to
     Measure Natural Phenomena. Ph.D. Dissertation, 2009
  :: Teresa Ko, Josh Hyman, Deborah Estrin, Stefano Soatto, Mark Hansen,
     Eric Graham. Embedded Imagers: Detecting, Localizing and Recognizing
     Object and Events in Natural Habitats. IEEE Proceedings on Emerging Sensor
     Network Applications, 2009
  :: Josh Hyman, Mark Hansen, Eric Graham, Deborah Estrin. Estimating the
     Spectral Reflectance of Natural Imagery Using Color Image Features.
     ImageSense Workshop of SenSys, 2008
  :: Josh Hyman, Dustin Boswell. "Storing and Leasing Units of Work", 2008
     (patent pending)
  :: Josh Hyman, Eric Graham, Mark Hansen, and Deborah Estrin. Imagers as
     sensors: Correlating plant CO2 uptake with digital visible-light imagery.
     Data Management in Sensor Networks workshop of VLDB, 2007
  :: Sasank Reddy, Andrew Parker, Josh Hyman, Jeff Burke, Deborah Estrin,
     Mark Hansen. Image Browsing, Processing, and Clustering for Participatory
     Sensing: Lessons From a DietSense Prototype. Workshop on Embedded
     Networked Sensing, 2007


[ Honors and Awards ]

 :: UCLA School of Engineering Dean's List
 :: Eta Kappa Nu Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Honors Society
 :: American Mensa Member
 :: 6th Place in ACM Regional Programming Competition
 :: Top 10 score in Brainbench Certifications for C, C++, and Python


[ Other Interests ]

 :: Playing sports such as Baseball, Soccer, Football, and Basketball 
 :: Local professional sports teams
 :: National Scouting Organizations (became an Eagle Scout at age 15)
 :: Activities: river kayaking, snowboarding, and backpacking 
 

[ References available upon request ]