My name is Jacob Beard, and I am a second-year master student at McGill University, currently doing research for the McGill Modelling, Simulation and Design Lab under Professor Hans Vangheluwe. In general, my research involves developing Web-based user interfaces with Statecharts.

At the moment, this work is primarily being realized in the development of SCION (StateCharts Interpretation and Optimization eNgine), a Statecharts interpreter/compiler framework targeting JavaScript runtime environments, including the Web browser environment.

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M.Sc. thesis "Developing Rich, Web-Based User Interfaces with the Statecharts Interpretation and Optimization Engine" [pdf]