Mik Kersten

Mik Kersten
Born	Warsaw, Poland
Residence	Vancouver, Canada
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	Tasktop Technologies, Xerox PARC
Alma mater	University of British Columbia
Doctoral advisor	Gail C. Murphy
Known for	created Task-Focused Interface and Mylyn, major contributor to AspectJ and Aspect-Oriented Programming, Eclipse (software)
Influences	Gail C. Murphy, Gregor Kiczales, Charles Simonyi, Jim Hugunin Rod Johnson (programmer)

Mik Kersten is a Canadian computer specialist who created and leads the open-source Eclipse Mylyn project. Kersten invented the Task-Focused Interface technology underlying Mylyn while working on his PhD at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. While completing his PhD, Kersten and his PhD supervisor, Gail C. Murphy, founded Tasktop Technologies, which provides productivity software built on the Mylyn technology.