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 specializing in high-performance data management for GPUs and NUMA multi-socket CPUs, with a decade of experience bridging academic research and open-source systems. His work appears in top database venues (PVLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE) and much of his C++ research code is openly released under the Unlicense on GitHub, enabling reproducible experimentation. A former Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at NTNU and postdoc at Aarhus, he led research on GPU-coupled indexing and skyline queries within European Horizon2020 projects. He combines rigorous theory with hands-on engineering for scalable analytics, and makes all recent manuscripts available as green open-access preprints.
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 (37)
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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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