I am a Master's student in Computer Science here at the University of Pittsburgh. I am also a student member of our department's ADMT Lab. My research advisors are Dr. Alexandros Labrinidis and Dr. Panos K. Chrysanthis. My research area is the intersection of algorithms, data management and biological data management.

Winner: SIGMOD'08 Undergrad Poster Contest

The participant's of this year's ACM SIGMOD Intl. Conference on Management of Data voted my poster, ``NN-Queries over Dynamic Graph Data'', best poster. There were five posters in the contest.

Awarded OEL Small Grant

The Office of Experiential Learning has awarded me with a small grant to be applied towards the cost of attending SIGMOD'08.

Invited to SIGMOD'08

I have been invited to present a research poster at SIGMOD'08 in the undergraduate poster competition. I was one of five students selected to participate, and I am the only student from North America who will participate. I have also been awarded a travel grant to attend.