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            <p>
            I am currently a <b>Senior Lecturer (teaching focused)</b> of
            <a href="https://eecs.uq.edu.au/profile/1193/paul-vrbik">
            Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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            University of Queenland
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            <p>My main area of research is
            <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_geometry#Computational_algebraic_geometry">computational algebraic geometry</a>
            as it pertains to
            <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_computation">symbolic computation</a>.
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            I contributed code to the commercial computer algebra system
            <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_(software)">Maple</a>
            which is maintained by
            <a href="http://www.maplesoft.com/">Maplesoft</a>
            in Waterloo, Ontario.
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            Previously I attended:
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                <li> The
                <a href="http://www.csd.uwo.ca/">University of Western Ontario</a>
                under
                <a href="http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~moreno/">Dr. Marc Moreno Maza</a>
                and
                <a href="http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~eschost/">Dr. &Eacute;ric Schost</a>
                earning a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2014,
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                <li>
                 <a href="http://www.math.sfu.ca">Simon Fraser University</a>
                under
                <a href="http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/~monaganm/">Dr. Michael Monagan</a>
                earning M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics in 2008 ,
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                <a href="http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/">
                McMaster University
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                earning a B.Sc. with distinction in Pure Mathematics in 2006.</li>
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