Asst. Professor Jakob Eriksson

A few words about my background. I grew up in Sweden, got my Masters in CS at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Wasted a few years on the dot-com boom and subsequent bust, and then joined the Ph.D. program at U.C. Riverside, from where I graduated in 2006.

After that, it was off to MIT for a two-year postdoc, and now I'm here at UIC, as an assistant professor. My wife works one flight of stairs below me.

If you like pretty, and sometimes shocking, pictures take a look at our travel pics from 5 months on the road, in some of the poorest countries in the world: Homeless and Unemployed