These days I work for Google in Mountain View, California. I mostly work on natural language processing, but still find myself very interested in machine translation as well as combinatorial optimization and its applications in various fields.
Recently I have been looking into inducing language structure unsupervised, but with a purpose.
As counterpoints to technology and science I like to play the piano, in particular romantic era stuff, and fly my paraglider.
Before moving to California (again), I studied computer science at the Berlin Institute of Technology (if you are studying or working there you might be interested in TUBway, a simple refectory menu widget I wrote for the Mac OS X Dashboard).
A few other Uszkoreits can be found on the web as well: my father Hans-Jürgen Uszkoreit, my sister Lena Uszkoreit and my late grandfather Hans-Georg Uszkoreit.
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| Since 2008 | Software Engineer at Google Inc. |
| 2007 - 2008 | Part-time Software Engineer at Acrolinx GmbH |
| 2006 - 2007 | Eight month internship at Google Research |
| 2005 - 2006 | Lead Technologist at Dropping Knowledge |
| 2002 - 2005 | Freelance Software Engineer, working on projects for clients such as Accenture, Axis media ontwerpers, BMW, Compaq, DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence), Digicast, Siemens, Sony, T-Online, T-Systems and others |
| 2001 - 2002 | Software Engineer at Xtramind Technologies GmbH |
| 2000 - 2001 | Part-time Software Engineer and Interface Designer with Netfutura GmbH |
| 2000 | Co-founder of Netfutura GmbH |
| 1997 - 1999 | Part-time Graphics and Sound Designer, and Web Developer with Iconmedia |
| Mar 2008 | Master's Degree (summa cum laude) |
| Oct 2007 - Mar 2008 | Master's Thesis in Computer Science at the Berlin Institute of Technology |
| Oct 2006 - Jul 2007 | Leave of Absence during Internship at Google Research |
| Oct 2004 - Oct 2006 | Student in the Diplomstudiengang (M.Sc. Program) of Computer Science (major) and Mathematics (minor) at the Berlin Institute of Technology |
| Jul 2004 | Vordiplom (Pre-Diploma) in Computer Science |
| Oct 2002 - Jul 2004 | Student of Computer Science in the Diplom-program (combined B.Sc. and M.Sc.) at the Berlin Institute of Technology. Minor was Visual Communication at the digital media class of the University of the Arts Berlin. |
| Jul 2001 | Abitur (German Senior High School Diploma) at Gymnasium am Rotenbühl, Saarbrücken |
In the middle of 2009 I started flying paragliders instructed by Wally Anderson (an amazing instructor and pilot) and recently obtained my USHPA P3 rating.
This flight in the mountains just north of Santa Barbara turned a breathtaking and otherworldly beautiful dance with the clouds.
On a recent trip through Europe I had my first flights in the Swiss Alps. Below is a compilation of my first three flights off Mt. Rigi, Switzerland.
A beautiful flying site closer to my current home is Mussel Rock, also known as The Dumps, in northern Pacifica, California. It's a coastal soaring site and on a good day one can launch close to the beach and stay aloft for hours.
A smaller San Francisco Bay Area flying site is up in the rolling hills around Benicia.
A video of one of my first higher altitude flights from a 3200ft launch site to the beautiful pacific coast in Big Sur, California. One of the most scenic places to fly, and in general.