About

This is the homepage to Jonathan Koren. Originally from Southern Illinois, Jonathan grew up in the middle of nowhere with a corn field literally less than 100 feet (30 meters) from his bedroom window; yet he did not grow up on a farm. Upon moving to the west coast and seeing the Pacific Ocean, he realized that he had reached the end of the world, and his own personal Manifest Destiny had come to an end.

He graduated with a BS in computer science in 1998 from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He later earned an MS, also from SIU, in 2005 under Dr. Norman F. Carver III with whom he conducted research on multiagent coordination in distributed sensor interpretation networks. He then joined Brewster Jennings & Associates as a systems analyst. Currently, Jonathan is a PhD student at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is advised by Dr. Yi Zhang, and is conducting research into personalized interfaces for faceted search.

Jonathan enjoys out of market baseball and espresso based drinks. He can frequently be found at Caffe Pergolesi, but alas, he is more frequently found in E2. He also enjoys graduating from universities with unusual mascots, and referring to himself in the third person. He thinks it makes him sound cool — and it does.

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