Immediate family – interesting links:
(these in no way even slightly represent the awesomeness of each of kids, each of whom is uniquely gifted and brings us joy . . . these are just interesting things along the way that are accessible in an online format)
- Peter (LinkedIn) In 2005, he was one of only 79 students in the world (out of 143,000 participants) who attained a perfect score in the AMC-8 Mathematics Competition.
- Alex (LinkedIn)
- Jonathan (LinkedIn / Google Scholar) In 2015 he was awarded GA Tech’s Colonel Oscar P. Cleaver Award. In 2016, he did a Poster Presentation at the International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors. His topic was “Monte Carlo Simulation of the Gunn Effect in AlGaN/GaN 2DEG” – yes, exactly. He was a Ph.D. candidate for many years at GA Tech with a thesis entitled “Novel Modes of Charge Transport and Charge Domain Instability, and their Application to Room Temperature Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Signal Generation”). He has published several articles along the way (scroll down for the pdf of his IEEE published article) (also here, here, here, and here).
- Aditi (Instagram) She was a Ph.D. candidate for many years at GA Tech and has published several articles along the way (here, here, here, here, here, here, and here). Here is a poster from one of her presentations.
- Michael (LinkedIn)
- Cascade (LinkedIn, Instagram)
- Karis (LinkedIn, Instagram)
- Robby (LinkedIn)
- Esther (Instagram)
Extended family – interesting links:
- Karen’s father, Gene Tiller – see pdf p. 33 & p. 44 of this report for some research he did while he was a “senior demonstrator (see pdf p. 83)” at the Australian National University in Canberra back in the early 70’s. Here’s a paper (see pdf p. 28) he presented. Later he worked as a Lecturer at the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education in Toowoomba, Qld and conducted research (see pdf p. 167) for many years at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission Research Establishment at Lucas Heights, NSW. Here are his college yearbooks: freshman (1954) (see p. 136, 161), junior (1956) (see p. 95) and senior (1957) (see p. 79) years.
- Karen’s mother, Alice Johnson Tiller – Here are her college yearbooks: freshman (1955) (see p. 60, 129), sophomore (1956) (see p. 36, 110, 112, 114), junior (1956) (see p. 34, 115, 116, 125, 128, 129, 133, 158), and senior (1957) (see p. 61, 121, 136, 220) years.
- Karen’s sister, Ellissa (LinkedIn)
- Karen’s uncle, Harold (LinkedIn)
- Karen’s aunt, Hildegard (Gessner) (winner, mixed doubles, Hessian badminton championship 1955)
- Harold & Hildegard as extras in a music video made by their grandson-in-law Kevin (David Dunn – Spend A Life – 1:07-1:20)
- Karen’s cousin, Mike (LinkedIn)
- Karen’s cousin, Sharon (LinkedIn)
- Karen’s cousin, Amy (LinkedIn)
- Karen’s niece, Ava (LinkedIn)
- Karen’s nephew, Matthew (LinkedIn)
- Karen’s nephew, Miles (LinkedIn)
- Paul’s niece, Kristina (LinkedIn)
Paul & Karen – interesting links:
- Paul (LinkedIn)
- Karen (LinkedIn) In 2007 she won a Distinguished Junior High School Mathematics Edyth May Sliffe Award (during our Sculley Academy Math Club days). In 1984, she published a short technical report on artificial intelligence understanding of natural language during honors year at U of Q (the correct title is “KRL” not “KBL”).
Jonathan’s IEEE paper: