User:Bkell

My name is Brian Kell. I am originally from Nebraska. I studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Later I went to Carnegie Mellon University and got a Ph.D. in algorithms, combinatorics, and optimization. After that I became a software engineer at Google in Pittsburgh and Munich, and now I am at Duolingo in Pittsburgh.

I joined Wikipedia on 29 November 2003, when I made my first edit, a few minor corrections to Superphénix. Since then it has become a habit of mine to edit Wikipedia articles whenever I'm putting off something useful. I reached 10,000 edits on 9 August 2006, according to Essjay's edit counter; to celebrate the occasion, my 10,000th edit was a few minor corrections to Superphénix. A little over a year later, on 26 November 2007, I became an administrator.

Long ago I rewrote the article about indigo dye and began the list of solar system objects by mass. To celebrate my 30,000th edit on 31 January 2011, I wrote an article about partial cubes. My 35,000th edit, on 31 July 2012 after a long wikibreak, was an expansion of Kell (volcano). Most of my edits to articles are minor spelling or grammatical tweaks that I do in passing. I spend a lot of time in the image namespace, trying to deal with the chaos that reigns there. I have uploaded some images of my own, which anyone may use however they like, as outlined below.

Wikipedians I know in real life include Benplowman, Clayness, CodyEbberson, Colby, Hschimke, Jhofker, MahmoudHashemi, Makuro, Mbeerman, Mkjanssen, Stack, Stolee, Swid, W00tfest99, Wboney, Wgunther, and Wnorton.