Academic and Professional Background

Education and Honors

University of Rochester
- Bachelor of Arts degree, May 1997, cum laude, with highest distinction in Cognitive Science
- Major: Cognitive Science (focus on language understanding)
- Minors: Linguistics, Legal Studies
- Bausch & Lomb Scholar
- Member, Joseph C. Wilson Honor Society
- Member, Golden Key National Honor Society
- Member and chapter president, Psi Chi (national psychology honor society)
Washington and Lee University School of Law
- Withdrew to pursue studies in computer science (instead of computer law)
- Member, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity
Hofstra University
- Master of Science degree in Computer Science, August 2000, with distinction
- Developed two software tools for computer theory students as part of my Master's thesis:
  - CAVE, the Constructive Algorithm Visualization Environment
  - TCELL, the Turing Computational Equivalence Learning Laboratory
- Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (international computer science honor society)
University of Virginia
- Master of Computer Science degree received May 2003
- Currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science
- Head TA for CS 201 (Software Development Methods), Fall 2000-Fall 2001
- Lounge Tsar, Spring 2002-Spring 2003, April 2004-present
- Head TA for CS 120 (Introduction to Business Computing), Fall 2003

I'm also looking to sit in on BIOC 508 (Computer Analysis of DNA and Protein Sequences) this semester.