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Andreas Gerstlauer

Welcome!

I currently live in Austin, TX, USA, working at the University of Texas as a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to joining UT Austin in 2008, I was living in Orange County in sunny Southern California. I graduated with a Ph.D. in Information & Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 2004, and afterwards I worked there as a researcher in the Center for Embedded Computer Systems (CECS). Before that I had spent most of my life growing up and studying in Stuttgart, Germany. Right before coming to the US in 1997, I graduated from the University of Stuttgart with a Diplom in Electrical Engineering.

Interests & Hobbies

• Classic cars: Unfortunately, I had to leave my classic Volvo behind back home.

• Scuba diving: I started scuba diving in 1996 and have a PADI Open Water Diver certification.
  I did dive at Cocos Island (part of Costa Rica) aboard the Okeanos Aggressor.
  Locally, California is famous for its kelp forests. I regularly did day trips to Catalina Island (with a boat or just from shore at Casino Point).
  Apart from that, there are some pictures of diving trips in my photo album.

• Skiing and - intermittently - snowboarding (did it for a while but after ending up in the hospital and intensive care I am back to skiing).
  I've been to Whistler, Canada (home of the 2010 winter olympics), Tahoe (Heavenly and Kirkwood), and Utah (Park City, Alta, Dear Valley, and Snowbird).
  In southern California, the best skiing is at Mammoth Mountain in the Sierra Nevada. Or, for some day trips to the local hills, in the nearby Big Bear Lake area (Snow Summit and Bear Mountain resorts).
  Growing up back in Europe, we frequently went skiing in the Italian (Corvara), French (Les Trois Vallees or Tignes/Val d'Isere), Swiss (Les Quatres Vallees) and Austrian (St. Anton) Alps.

• Off-roading: I have a 2001 Honda XR650L with which I used to go dirt riding with my buddies through Death Valley, down Baja California and in the local mountains.

Projects

• Upon request of my Dad I extended his favourite RF design tool Puff in order to add some new features.