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<td width=499 valign=top><font size = 6>About Me</font><br><br>
Last updated August 3, 2008. If this seems like a long time ago to you,
<a href="mailto:hoffert.david@gmail.com">e-mail me and tell me to update these pages!</a><br><br>
Perhaps the best way I can begin to describe myself is by sharing one of
<a href="quotes.html" target="main">my favorite quotations</a>, uttered, apparently, by the
lexicographer Samuel Johnson: "The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of
any undertaking." I couldn't agree more. I love life, and I love living it.
There are few things in which I do not find humor in and laugh at. And people
say they can tell when I'm on the other side of a big room or somewhere in a large crowd
because my laugh carries over the distance. I am also quite stubbornly an optimist,
and I consider my positive outlook to be my greatest quality. Politically, I am quite
liberal, though I do prefer the term "progressive" and have been known to take some
unexpected (i.e. conservative) positions on some issues. I am also, however, very
politically active, and am seriously entertaining the idea of entering politics some day.
As an indicator of my politics, in 2004 I supported former Governor Howard Dean in
the Democratic primary, and this year I supported former Senator John Edwards. No
matter what candidate or what party you are supporting, I encourage you to educate yourself
about the campaigns in general and become active in your democracy.<br><br>
I am deeply committed to social justice and environmental sustainability. I make a
point of always speaking up when I witness any form of discrimination (be it as simple as
uttering the phrase "that's lame", as subtle as a survey asking for the occupations of the
Mr. and the Mrs./Ms., or as far-reaching as a politician taking an inappropriate stand on a
question of equality and equal protection.) I believe that global warming is the
greatest crisis the human race has ever faced, that the situation is exigent, and that the
solution will require great sacrifice. I also am passionate about fixing the public
education system in this country; for more details on my thoughts on these and other
political issues, <a href="issues.html" target="main">click here</a>. There are ten
primary virtues by which I strive to live my life: sagacity, magnanimity, probity,
tenacious outspokenness, altruism, impervious optimism, humor, compassion, humility, and
finding joy in the simple things in life (like a song played in 3/4 time).<br><br>
I love to listen to and create music. I have studied music since before I was five
years old, first learning to play piano and then, in middle school, moving into concert
percussion, which I continue to play to this day and hope to continue casually throughout
my adult life. Music, however, is more than just an activity for me; music is in my
soul. My MP3 player is one of my most prized possessions, and I can often be seen
walking somewhere with it playing, just smiling to myself; it provides me with a soundtrack
to life. When in a movie theatre, I usually am completely aware of the soundtrack
playing no matter how riveting the action sequence is at the time, and I keep a large
collection of movie music on my MP3 player (favorite composers: James Newton Howard, Hans
Zimmer, Thomas Newman, and John Powell). I am also quite involved in the dramatic
arts. In middle school and high school, I performed with a group called the
<a href="http://www.ysp.org/" target="main">Young Shakespeare Players</a>, acting in
semi-professional, full-length works of Shakespeare. By the end of my career with them, my
resume included Iago in <i>Othello</i> and Hamlet in <i>Hamlet</i>. In high school I
also became a member of the forensics team and helped lead my team to two back-to-back
state championships, primarily competing in Radio. My proudest achievement in the
fine arts, however, is hands down my
<a href="mrchef.html" target="main">directoral debut</a>.<br><br>
I am currently a graduate student of
<a href="http://me.stanford.edu/" target="main">mechanical engineering</a> at
<a href="http://www.stanford.edu/" target="main">Stanford University</a> in
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Stanford,+CA&ie=UTF8&ll=37.441337,-122.168999&spn=0.064604,0.153809&z=13" target="main">Palo
Alto, California</a>, which, notably, has the exact same school colors as my undergraduate
institution, the
<a href="http://www.wisc.edu" target="main">University of Wisconsin--Madison</a>, where I
completed my Bachelor of Science degree in 2008, double-majoring in
<a href="http://www.engr.wisc.edu/me/" target="main">mechanical engineering</a> and
<a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/" target="main">computer science</a> and participating in
the
<a href="http://studentservices.engr.wisc.edu/classes/ehla.html" target="main">Engineering
Honors in Liberal Arts program</a>. At Stanford, I am working in the
<a href="http://ddl.stanford.edu/" target="main">Dynamic Design Lab</a> under the direction
of <a href="http://me.stanford.edu/me_profile.php?sunetid=gerdes" target="main">Professor
J. Christian Gerdes</a>. The lab’s overarching goal is to reduce the societal impact
of vehicles, and I am helping to research the use and manipulation of vehicle dynamics
to accomplish driver assistance and even vehicle automation (the other half of the lab
works on reducing the environmental impact of burning fuel.) My work is being funded
for the first three years by a Stanford Graduate Fellowship, and subsequently I intend
to get funding from the lab itself or additional outside sources to finish my studies with
a Ph.D. After obtaining my advanced degrees, I want to be a faculty member
at a major research university so that I can both teach and perform research. My
primary research interests within robotics are
<a href="http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/index.asp" target="main">vehicle automation
(making cars drive themselves)</a>, bio-inspired locomotion (designing robots that move
according to the body mechanics of real animals), and artificial robotic limbs.<br><br>
In my junior year at the University of Wisconsin I was named the first-ever DeWitt
Undergraduate Scholar by the computer science department, the only undergraduate merit
scholarship the department awards in any given year, and in my final year of undergraduate
study was honored as the recipient of the
<a href="http://www.provost.wisc.edu/uaa/awards/herfurthKubly.html" target="main">Theodore
Herfurth Award for Initiative and Efficiency</a>, one of the oldest and most prestigious
awards given by the University of Wisconsin as a whole.
<a href="awards.html" target="main">Click here</a> for a complete list of my honors
and awards since late high school. In college I contributed to ten
<a href="projects/index.html" target="main">major projects</a>, including a summer
internship with GE Healthcare and two summer terms with
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/" target="main">Amazon.com</a>, which truly does have
<a href="amazon.html" target="main">Earth's largest selection</a>. I also served for
two years each as a House Fellow (RA) in
<a href="http://www.housing.wisc.edu/student_orgs/crc/" target="main">Chadbourne
Residential College</a> and as a Team Leader for the computer science department's
<a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/wes-cs/" target="main">WES-CS</a> program. This
basically meant that I was (like) an undergraduate teaching assistant for two sections of
students taking the introductory programming course who wanted a more challenging
experience in computer science; the program was also designed to increase the participation
and retention of women and students of color in computer science. I hold memberships
in the engineering societies <a href="http://www.asme.org/" target="main">American Society
of Mechanical Engineers</a>,
<a href="http://www.sae.org/servlets/index" target="main">Society of Automotive Engineers</a>,
<a href="http://www.ite.org/" target="main">Institute of Transportation Engineers</a>, and
<a href="http://www.ieee.org/" target="main">Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers</a> and the honor societies <a href="http://www.pitausigma.net/" target="main">Pi
Tau Sigma</a>, <a href="http://www.tbp.org/pages/main.cfm" target="main">Tau Beta Pi</a>,
<a href="http://www.goldenkey.org/GKWeb" target="main">Golden Key</a>, and
<a href="http://www.phikappaphi.org/Web/" target="main">Phi Kappa Phi</a>, which named me
its 2008 Yoerger Presidential Fellow. When I lived in Wisconsin, I was a regular
volunteer for <a href="http://www.wpt.org/" target="main">Wisconsin Public Television</a>,
where I occasionally appeared as an on-air talent.<br><br>
I was born and raised in
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Madison,+WI&ie=UTF8&ll=43.082931,-89.386826&spn=0.237712,0.615234&z=11" target="main">Madison,
Wisconsin</a>, where I lived with my <a href="mom&doug.html" target = "main">mother, Cara
and my stepfather, Doug</a>, my <a href="beau.html" target="main">brother, Beau</a>, and
<a href="skippy.html" target = "main">my dog Skippy</a>. My
<a href="mm.html" target="main">father and stepmother, Marvin and Mary</a>, live in
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Seattle,+WA&ie=UTF8&ll=47.621901,-122.330017&spn=0.438747,1.230469&z=10" target="main">Seattle,
Washington</a>. I have two adult half-brothers:
<a href="alex.html" target="main">Alex</a> and <a href="jason.html" target="main">Jason</a>.
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