The Varied Life of Chris Gregg

Before becoming a lecturer at Stanford, I:

Received a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University
Have been a U.S. Naval Officer in the Cryptology / Information Warfare Community (currently a Commander (O5) in the Reserves, and Commanding Officer of NR Navy Information Operations Command, HI-Tacoma, Washington)
Sailed out of San Diego on the USS CLEVELAND (LPD-7) and USS PELELIU (LHA-5), stopping in Hawaii, Singapore, Malaysia (Panang), Thailand (Phuket), Indonesia (Bali), Oman (Muscat), Bahrain, United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi and Dubai), Kuwait, and Australia (Bunbury, Darwin, and Sydney)
Lived for two years in Gerringong, Australia with the Navy Personal Exchange Program
Sailed as crew in the Sydney to Hobart ocean sailboat race
Received a Master’s in Education from Harvard University, in secondary school teaching
Traveled and wrote for Let’s Go Ireland, 2003
Taught physics and computer science at Brookline High School (2002-04, 2005-08) in Brookline, MA and Pacific Collegiate School (2004-05) in Santa Cruz, CA
Was head sailing instructor at Kollegewidgwok Sailing Club, in Blue Hill Maine (summer 2003)
Wrote a shareware program called iWebSites
Ran in the Boston Marathon (2007) and the Marine Corps Marathon(2007) and competed in the (crazy) FirmMan Half-Ironman Triathlon(2007).

Studied VLSI, Solid State Devices, Probability and Stochastic Systems, Embedded Computing, Compilers, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Computer Networking, and Parallel Computing, and Heterogeneous Computing.
Wrote a little Java Applet to demonstrate how a Kogge-Stone adder works.
Designed, with Marisabel Guevara, designed a Fault Tolerant, Real-Time Reconfigurable Adder.
Wrote a bunch of papers.
Updated the Wikipedia page on Kogge-Stone Adders
Presented a poster on Contention-Aware Scheduling of Parallel Code for Heterogeneous Systems in HotPar 2010.
Worked at AMD during the summer of 2010, which culminated in a paper in GPGPU-4 titled Analyzing Program Flow within a Many-Kernel OpenCL Application.
Taught 4th and 5th grade students parallel programming. Luther Tychonievich and I created a new programming language (EcoSim), and we had a blast teaching the students about parallel programming concepts.
Taught 7th and 8th grade students how to write fundamental programs in Python, Scheme, Java and C.
Taught CS/ECE 3330, Computer Architecture, Fall 2011.
Ran in the Charlottesville 10-Miler (2008, 2009, 2010) and the Charlottesville Marathon (2010).

After getting my PhD, I

Spent a year in Djibouti, Africa as the Information Operations Chief for the Combined Joint Task Force, Horn of Africa.
Was the Commanding Officer of NR Navy Information Operations Command, Tacoma, WA.
Was a lecturer at Tufts University in the computer science department, where I taught Introduction to Computer Science, Data Structures, Advanced Computer Architecture, and Wearable Devices.
Hacked my Espresso Machine onto the Internet, first with a Raspberry Pi and later with a WeMos ESP8266 and a custom PCB I designed and fabricated from OSH Park.
Created a printer from a 1960s Smith Corona Typewriter.

At Stanford, I

Have taught many courses in the introductory CS curriculum, including CS106A, CS106B, CS106X, CS107, CS107e, CS110, CS208e, and CS298.
Have facilitated many “Birds of a Feather” presentations at SIGCSE on teaching track faculty.
Have co-written a paper with Chris Piech on BlueBook, a computerized testing program that we have used before and since the COVID-19 outbreak.
Have written a book, titled, Your First Year Teaching Computer Science, which is geared towards new CS instructors who are just joining the community.
Have worked (Summer 2019, and part-time since then) at Facebook as a software engineer in the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure group.
Created another typewriter printer project with an IBM Wheelwriter typewriter, which involved a lot of reverse-engineering of electronic protocols.