Neal is currently a part-time PhD student at the Johns Hopkins University and a part-time free lancer. He specializes in systems and system security and is also interested in Machine Learning. In the past, Neal has worked on the Hurd (among other things, he wrote the POSIX threading library) and GPE, the GNU Palm Environment, a set of applications and infrastructure for mobiles devices. Currently, he is working on Woodchuck, a framework that manages data transfers on mobiles devices so as to save transfer costs (both money and energy) and improve the user experience by hiding network latency.