ZHONG GUO REN

I was born in Hong Kong and lived there for the first 14 years of my life. In the summer of 1997, I started at a boarding school in Concord, MA and lived there for the next four years.

In the fall of 2001, I became an undergrad at Northeastern University in Boston, studying Linguistics and Computer Science. I finally graduated in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics. Due to visa issues, I went back in school and received my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in the early months of 2009.

While attending Concord Academy, I became friends with the people running the GNOME Project, specifically Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman, the co-founders of Helix Code, later renamed to Ximian. Ximian was then acquired by Novell in the summer of 2003. I’ve been an intern with these people since the beginning of 2001, and worked there until 2006.

In the winter of 2001, I started contributing to the Mono Project.

I have been working on various projects related to Scheme since 2007. You can find them on my personal Git repository.

Since the fall of 2008, I have been working at Harvard University’s Center for Brain Science. I work as a programmer for the Connectome Project.

I’m interested in theoretical linguistics (mostly syntax) as well as learning foreign languages. On top of Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin and Taiwanese) and English, I also speak and write French fluently. I’ve been learning Japanese on my own since the summer of 1999 and have since became quite fluent. Right now, my target language is Korean, but progress has been slow.

Here is my résumé.

土生土長的香港人。

九七年回歸後的夏天，十四歲的我，來到了美國波士頓的一所寄宿學校。

四年後，在波士頓的Northeastern 大學唸語言學和電腦。

99年開始參於各種自由軟件的工作。自01年開始，從事各種Mono有關的事宜。07年的夏天，開始學習Scheme。

自09年的沉冬，我開始了在哈佛大學的腦科學研究中心工作。

除中英文以外，我還會講法文。從中學3年級開始，為了更深入明白日劇台詞（中文翻譯字幕實在是太土了！），一直自修日文。近幾年，雖然想進展到韓文，可是卻一直遲滯不前。