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14 <h3><span>Brink van der Merwe</span></h3>
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16<p>If you are lucky enough to bump into this animal in the wild, you're in for a treat. </p>
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21<h3><span>Contact Information<span></span></span></h3>
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23Dept of Mathematical Sciences, <br>
24Computer Science Division, <br>
25University of Stellenbosch, <br>
26Private Bag X1, 7602 Matieland, SOUTH AFRICA <br>
27Tel: +27 21 808 4232 <br>
28E-mail: abvdm -at- cs.sun.ac.za OR brinkvdm -at- gmail.com <br>
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32 <h3><span>Academic Qualifications</span></h3>
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34 <dt>1995: PhD, Texas A&M University, Advisor: Prof CJ Maxson</dt>
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39 <h3><span>Research</span></h3>
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43Research interest: Automata Theory<br>
44For a list of publications see <a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TKlHqnMAAAAJ">Google Scholar</a> and <a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/m/Merwe:Brink_van_der.html">DBLP</a>.<br> My
45<a href="http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/~abvdm/vdMerwe_Intreerede.pdf">inaugural lecture</a> contains a popular description of some of my research interest.<br>
46Have a look at my <a href="http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/~abvdm/regex.html">regular expression project page</a> if you have an interest in performance related issues of Java and similar regular expression matching libraries.
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50<h3><span>Editorial boards and recent conference programme committees</span></h3>
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54<dt> Editorial Board member of <a href="http://www.jucs.org/jucs_articles_by_author/van_der_Merwe_Brink/BusinessCard"> Journal of Universal Computer Science</a></dt>
55<dt>Programme committee member for the <a href="http://ciaa17.univ-mlv.fr/committees.html">2017 International Conference Implementation and Application of Automata</a> </dt>
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67 <dt>Mohamed Taha, graduated March 2008, Regulated rewriting in formal language theory.</dt>
68 <dt>Carl Crous, graduated March 2009, Autonomous robot path planning.</dt>
69 <dt>Gerrit Greeff, graduated March 2009, Interactive voxel terrain design using procedural techniques.</dt>
70 <dt>Walter Schulze, graduated March 2010, A formal language theory approach to music generation.</dt>
71 <dt>Jan Buys, graduated December 2013, Probabilistic tree transducers for grammatical error correction. </dt>
72 <dt>Dirk Brand, graduated March 2016, Automatic prediction of comment quality.</dt>
73 <dt>Nicolaas Weideman. graduated December 2017, <a href="http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/~abvdm/regex_slides.pdf">Static analysis of regular expressions</a>.</dt>
74 <dt>Heila-MarieÌ Botha (co-supervised with Willem Visser), graduated December 2017, Verifying Android Applications Using Java PathFinder.</dt>
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82<h3><span>Teaching</span></h3>
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86 <dd> <a href="http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/rw334">CS334 Databases and Web Programming</a> </dd>
87 <dd> <a href="http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/rw713">CS713 Functional Programming</a> </dd>
88 <dd> <a href="http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/rw744">CS744 Blockchain Technologies</a> </dd>
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