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Jeffrey McDaniel Highlight
Everyone you ever meet will be better than you at something. You can learn from anyone and you should never stop learning. Always take the opportunity to learn from others about what they’re good at.
About Jeffrey
- As a child, my computer and TV time was restricted, so I didn’t really have much experience with computers or technology until college.
- I went to University of California, Riverside, and started out as a math major, thinking that I would go into actuarial sciences and run insurance numbers.
- While working on my undergrad degree, I was required to take a computer science course and ended up loving the problem-solving aspect of the field, so I added computer science as a double major.
- After receiving my bachelor’s degree, I decided to continue my education and pursue both a master’s degree and doctorate from UC Riverside.
- By the end of my first year in grad school, I was a teaching assistant for an embedded systems course—which was actually the class that made me want to go to grad school in the first place!
- After receiving my master’s degree, I got promoted to teach computer science courses—I even taught courses abroad in Switzerland and performed research in Taiwan.
- As a computer science doctoral candidate, my research was focused in computer-aided design algorithms for disposable cartridges for the biomedical field.
- I now work as a lecturer at UC Riverside—I teach courses on embedded systems, software construction, algorithms, and more!
