About Me
I'm currently (since fall 2006) a PhD student in computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I entered the program on a National Science Foundation IGERT fellowship. For the last three years I was funded by an NSF graduate research fellowship. My emphasis is in computational science and engineering. You can learn about my research here.
Professional: I worked for several years prior to graduate school. I was a Statistical Programmer at Medtronic in Saint Paul, Minnesota, working in the bioinformatics group in the Dept. of Cardiac Rhythm Management Clinical Research. Before that, I was a Data Analyst in the Division of Biostatistics at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. I spent two years there working with Dr. Walter Rocca conducting research on the causes of Parkinson's disease. I also spent some time working as a software engineer. For more details on my work experience, please see my cirriculum vitae (pdf).