For a while now I have spent some of my mornings every week at Nature’s Garden an organic coffee and eatery. Their food is excellent and their coffee is the cheapest on campus (Burnaby Mountain Campus, SFU). The places bustle and atmosphere has many-a-time inspired me to write while under the pressure of a course or conference deadline.
In fact, I am here now writing this post. Your should come by and say hi to Bill and Dolores (the owners).
Dr. Stephen Makonin is an Adjunct Professor in Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and a Senior Software Engineer at Knowledge Network. He received his PhD in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University in 2014, and has been a software engineer for over 20 years working for various local and international clients. Stephen is currently the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Vancouver Chapter as well as a Senior Member of the IEEE. His research interests include computational sustainability and the understanding of socioeconomic issues that pertain to technological advancement. Stephen is an expert in data engineering and a world-renowned researcher in non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) and disaggregation.
View all posts by Stephen Makonin
