I graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park in August 2010. My advisor was David Mount. My research is in computational geometry, and I'm especially interested in understanding moving objects.
After leaving Maryland, I worked for two years as a software engineer at Google where I was on the indoor maps team doing applied machine learning research and development.
CV (pdf)
Education
| University of Maryland, College Park | Ph.D. | August 2010 |
| University of Maryland, College Park | M.S. | December 2007 |
| Swarthmore College | B.A. | May 2004 |
Current Classes (Fall 2012)
CS 101: Fluency with Information Technology
CS 105: Introduction to Computer Science
Future Classes (Spring 2013)
This spring I'll be teaching Analysis of Algorithms and Mobile Development for Social Change. The class page for the last time Algorithms was taught at Haverford can be found here, or you might find the page for the last time I taught algorithms (at the University of Maryland) to be useful. The tentative syllabus for Mobile Development can be found here.
Current Research
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Understanding Motion I'm interested in understanding motion from a computational geometry and information theoretic point of view; creating frameworks and analyses that are theoretically sound and yet practically relevant. I'm working with Dianna Xu and Betul Atalay on related ideas for practical frameworks for kinetic data. I recently gave a talk on the information content in motion at the AALAC/Mellon 23 Working Group on Information.
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Beyond the Red Pen
I'm working with Education professor Alice Lesnick and fellow computer scientist John Dougherty (JD) on an applied machine learning, educational technology, and human computer interaction project to create tools to automate tedious teacher tasks like grading.
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The Dark Reaction Project
I'm working with Chemists Josh Schrier and Alex Norquist as well as computer science student Paul Raccuglia '14 on an applied machine learning project. We're working on predicting the outcomes of materials chemistry experiments.
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