Reviewer:

• ACM PODC 2007
• IFIP NETWORKING 2007
• SIGCOMM CCR
• ACM Multimedia Systems Journal
• IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 2005
• IEEE TPDS Journal 2005, 2007
• INFOCOM 2006
• INFOCOM 2005
• NOSSDAV 2005
• CAAN 2005
• ACM Multimedia 2004

Professional Memberships

• IEEE, Member
• ACM, Member

Other Activities

• Session chair, Global Internet, 2005.
• Administrate the UO CIS Network Research Lab, 2002–present
• Student member of the UO CIS Graduate Education Committee, 2002–2003
• GTFF steward for the CIS department, 2002–2003

Technical Skills

• Exceptional ability to identify standard, well-understood algorithms for solving unusual problems
• Experience implementing an exceptionally wide range of algorithms
• Experience programming in everything from microcode to high-level and domain-specific languages
• Ability to locate and fix bugs in unfamiliar source code of large projects
• Ability to locate and fix bugs in programs written in languages I don’t actually know
• People compliment me on the comprehensiveness and readability of my documentation and design specifications.
• You can also read my Coding Philosophy

Awards

• IMC 2006 Travel Grant
• Upsilon Pi Epsilon Membership, 2006
• INFOCOM 2006 Travel Grant
• 2006–2007 Clarence and Lucille Dunbar Scholarship
• SIGCOMM 2005 Travel Grant
• IMC 2004 Travel Grant
• ICNP 2004 Travel Grant

Programming Competitions:

• First place, UO Programming Competition, 2006.
• First place, UO Programming Competition, 2005.
• First place, UO Programming Competition, 2004.
• Honorable Mention, ACM ICPC World Finals Programming Competition, 2003.
• First place, UO Programming Competition, 2003.
• First Place, ACM ICPC Pacific Northwest Programming Competition, 2002.
• First place, UO Programming Competition, 2002.
• First place, WPI ACM Programming Competition, 1998.
• First place, WPI Tau Beta Pi Design Competition, 1997.
• Scholarship Winner, Rhode Island Distinguished Merit Competition in Computer Science, 1995.

Education:

2001–Present:

Ph.D. student, University of Oregon, Computer & Information Science Department. GPA: 4.00. Advisor: Reza Rejaie

1995–1998:

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, minor in Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Completed the degree in only 3 years. GPA: 3.54, EE GPA: 3.45, CS GPA: 4.00

GRE scores:

Quantitative: 800, Analytical: 800, Verbal: 560

Employment:

University of Oregon:

Research Assistant for Prof. Reza Rejaie, 7/2004–Present

Research Assistant for the Beyond BGP Project, 3/2004–6/2004

Teaching Assistant, CIS 432: Intro. to Computer Networks, 9/2003–3/2004

Research Assistant for Prof. Daniel Zappala, 9/2001–8/2003

ADC, Inc.:

Software Engineering Contractor, 2/2001 - 8/2001

• Enhanced firewall filtering code of a Cable Modem Terminational System (CMTS), including microcode changes.
• Performed other bugfixes and feature changes on the CMTS code.

Assured Digital, Inc.:

Senior Software Engineer, 8/1999 - 1/2001

• Primarily responsible for embedded systems software design, development, and debugging in a then-cutting-edge VPN product.
• Read numerous books and RFCs on network technologies, and determined how best to integrate them into the existing product.
• Provided design input to all engineering groups.
• Co-administrated the company network, engineering tools, and build scripts.
• Made modifications to tcpdump to interpret IPSec encapsulated packets.
• Fixed bugs in the GNU cross-compiler and cross-assembler.

Software Test Engineer, 10/1998 - 8/1999

• Made architectural improvements to the existing automated test framework.
• Made optimizations resulting in a tenfold speed increase.
• Wrote test plans based on requirement and design documents.
• Primary author of automated tests.

Microwave Radio Communications:

Embedded Systems Programmer, 5/1997 - 8/1998

• Designed, programmed, and debugged a multitasking embedded operating system with loadable device drives and communications layer.
• Designed and programmed a monitoring interface to an embedded system, including code for PPP, a UDP/IP stack, and a sockets-style API.