User:Phil Harton

The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022. I was born in Fairfax, Virginia, USA in 1982 and have lived in that area for most of my life. I attended the University of Virginia starting in 2000 and received a B.S. in computer science in 2004 and an M.S. in systems engineering in 2006. During that time I interned at the Central Intelligence Agency; Presearch, Inc. (now part of SAIC); and Microsoft. My research interests included information retrieval and counterterrorism applications. After finishing my M.S. I started my current job at Google as an Associate Product Manager working on search.

My personal interests include cooking, geocaching, bikram yoga, massage, sustainability, motorcycle riding, video games, and martial arts. I've dabbled in several martial arts including Tang Soo Do, Tae Kwon Do, Uechi Ryu, Wing Chun, Aikido, Muay Thai, and Wushu. I practiced Wushu for 4 years in college and have competed in several national tournaments. I still train occasionally at a school near my home in the San Francisco Bay Area.