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hello!I'm a first year PhD student in the department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. My advisor is Dr. Tiffani Williams. Our lab's research focuses on large scale phylogenetic analysis, particularly those dealing with analysis of groups of taxa in the thousands.

I was previously a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where I received my B.S. in Computer Science in 2006, and my M.S. in Computer Science in 2008. My Masters thesis work was on the visualization of the protein unfolding pathway. You can view my full C.V. here.

As a research assistant, my current research focuses on creating novel algorithms to process large sets of phylogenetic trees. My goal is to design new methods for the construction of the Tree of Life.

Computational Phylogenetics is a branch of Computational Biology that studies how different sets of organisms (taxa) are related to one another through the use of algorithmic techniques commonly found in Computer Science, particularly in the areas of Data Mining and Parallel Computing. The overarching goal of this area of research is to determine how exactly sets of organisms are related, and to one day determine the structure of the tree of life.

Conference Schedule: 2008

CRA-W Grad Cohort (March)
Grace Hopper (October)
BIBM 2008 (November)
SC08 (November)

C.V.

C.V. (.pdf)

News & Updates

07/08/2008 - Website Launched

08/16/2008 - Resume updated