Biography Continued:
Joseph’s undergraduate/graduate career at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) has allowed him to participate in several domestic and international projects. A few of significant projects have included: similarity search, generalized interfaces for hardware accelerators, hardware accelerator optimization, memory abstraction/standardization of hardware systems, and enhancements of Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) processors. In these projects, he excelled in project management, coordination, and collaboration with his peers. Throughout these experiences, Joseph demonstrated determination, leadership, technical merit, and ability, to independently learn/improve skill sets. Collaboration with multidisciplinary groups taught him effective communication and problem-solving skills. Joseph has collaborated with research/technical groups such as Jacquard Computing, Pico Computing, Intel Corporation, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), National University of Singapore (NUS), and University of Bern.
The Catalyst:
“My passion for science was ignited at an early age in the form of curiosity, and it all began at my grandparent’s house. Every summer, I would visit my grandparents for a month or so and each time I entered the garage I was enchanted by my grandfather’s radio communication system. Its buttons, knobs, lights and sounds were too stimulating for my curious nature to resist. One afternoon, I decided to investigate my grandfather’s elaborate radio communication system by decomposing it on the garage floor. Upon discovery, my grandfather was more impressed than angry because I was able to separate the parts by levels of similarity. Instead of punishing me, my grandfather decided he would teach me how to reconstruct the radio communication system. After a week of rebuilding, my grandfather not only taught me how to build a transistor radio, but also about the fundamental concepts of electricity, circuits, and radio communication. From then on, my grandfather encouraged my curiosity with a new project every summer and thus began my mechanically inclined nature.”
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