Erik van der Kouwe

Contact information

PhD student
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Department of Computer Science
De Boelelaan 1081a
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

phone: +31 (0)20 598 7907
email: vdkouwe <at> cs.vu.nl
office: P-4.69

Research

Since September 2009, I have been working as a PhD student for Andy Tanenbaum to do research on making operating systems more reliable. Although I already know that my research will be related to the MINIX 3 project, the exact subject matter is yet to be determined.

As a by-product of my research, I occasionally port programs to MINIX 3. These packages can be found on my MINIX page.

Curriculum Vitae

Date(s)	Event	Status
Sept. 2009 - current	PhD computer science, VU Amsterdam	In progress
Sept. 2006 - Aug. 2009	MSc computer science, VU Amsterdam	Completed (cum laude, GPA: 9.3)
Sept. 2008 - Aug. 2009	MSc political science, VU Amsterdam	Completed (cum laude, GPA: 9.0)
Sept. 2007 - Aug. 2008	Pre-master political science, VU Amsterdam	Completed (GPA: 8.8)
Sept. 2004	Young talent encouragement prize, discipline computer science and technical computer science, Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities	Received
Sept. 2003 - Aug. 2006	BSc computer science, VU Amsterdam	Completed (cum laude)
Sept. 2003 - Aug. 2006	BSc mathematics, VU Amsterdam	Completed (cum laude)
1997 - 2003	VWO (Gymnasium, N&T and N&G with Latin), Gymnasium Haganum	Completed (GPA: 8.1)

Publications

Date	Title	Type
Aug. 2009	"Porting the QEMU virtualization software to MINIX 3" (slides from presentation)	Master's thesis in computer science (supervisor prof. dr. Andy Tanenbaum, grade 10)
Aug. 2009	"Old institutions, new issues: Can Dutch consensus democracy cope with a more demanding electorate?"	Master's thesis in political science (supervisor dr. Paul Pennings, grade 9.5)
Aug. 2008	"Built to Last? Explaining durable success of new parties through complex causation"	Pre-master's thesis in political science (supervisor dr. Barbara Vis, grade 8.5)
Aug. 2006	"Virtual Machines: The State of the Art"	Bachelor's thesis in computer science (supervisor prof. dr. Andy Tanenbaum, grade 9)
Aug. 2006	"Cryptografie met behulp van elliptische krommen" [cryptography using elliptic curves]	Bachelor's thesis in mathematics (supervisor dr. Marcel van der Vel, grade 9)

A paper based on the Master's thesis for political science is included as a book chapter in R.B. Andeweg, P. Mair and J. Thomassen (eds.) "Democratic audit in Nederland" [Democratic Audit in the Netherlands].

Teaching

I will help organize the Computer and Network security class of 2011/2012.

Varia

Besides my 0.8 fte employment at the VU (Tuesday-Friday), I also work for my own business called Erisma Advies en Automatisering [in Dutch]. Erisma has been active since April 2003.