## BIO
**Kerwin Khu**
• Flat 2, 40 Phillimore Road, Southampton SO16 2NR, UK
• (44)7533831381
• [login to view URL]
**EDUCATION**
*University of Southampton*
PhD Candidate in Engineering Materials - 2008 to 2012 (expected)
Design and simulation of a novel micro engine, i.e. miniature engines expected to be more reliable with better predicted performance than other sources of micro power. Project includes design and thermo-mechanical finite difference simulation of engine components using Matlab and C++, leading up to potential fabrication of prototypes.
*National University of Singapore*
MS in High Performance Computing - 2003 to 2004
Experience in cluster computing using MPI. Parallel programs coded in C (mostly) and Fortran. Implemented finite difference methods for solving differential equations in Matlab, including Euler and Crank-Nicolson methods for solving PDEs.
*University of the Philippines*
BS in Electronics and Communications Engineering - 1995 to 2000
C programming ~5k LOC in mini projects and thesis (embedded systems programming).
**WORK EXPERIENCE**
*Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing*
Senior Modeling Engineer - 2004 to 2008
Responsible for 15-person modeling team's IT infrastructure, including Perl/Python scripting, maintenance of software tools, and day to day management of mixed Windows/Unix environment.
*Canon Information Technologies Philippines*
Hardware Engineer, Design and Verification - 2000 to 2003
Wrote multi-threaded test suites (parallel execution threads) in variant of C++, ~50k LOC. Familiarity with source version control and software development methods (Agile, Extreme). Have experience in writing and implementing exhaustive test plans, including unit tests and system tests that take into account interactions of different modules. Designed digital hardware blocks in Verilog and VHDL languages. Developed an Excel VBA macro for automatically extracting reports from project management files.
## Area of Expertise
C
C++
Matlab
Perl
Python
VHDL
Verilog
Parallel programming
Finite element simulation
