Sean Chester
Assistant Professor at University of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSean Chester is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, focusing on scalable data analytics and data management on modern highly parallel architectures such as GPUs and NUMA multicore systems. His work has appeared in top database venues including PVLDB, ACM SIGMOD, and IEEE ICDE, underscoring a strong research impact. He was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at NTNU from 2015 to 2019, expanding his international research portfolio before returning to UVic. His career spans postdoctoral work at Aarhus University and academic roles at UVic, with early experience supporting students as a Writing Centre Tutor and Teaching Assistant. Much of his research code is in C++, openly released on GitHub under an Unlicense, and his green OA preprints ensure broad accessibility to his publications. Based in Victoria, BC, he continues to translate cutting-edge data-management research into scalable, production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of Victoria
Norwegian, Danish, English, French
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Github Skills (42)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sean-chester/H2020-MSCA-IF-2016
Sep 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 4 months
h2020individualmscalatex-templatelatex
sean-chester/relational-databases
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Programming assignments for the third-year intro databases course at the University of Victoria, CSC 370: "Database Systems"
Contributions:161 commits, 2 PRs, 173 pushes in 9 months
pythonmysqluniversity-of-victoriasqldatabase-systems
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