I am a Ph.D student in Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2000 I relocated in order to follow my advisor Martha Pollack to the University of Michigan. My graduate study is supported by a six-year National Physical Sciences Consortium Fellowship, a fellowship for students in computer and physical sciences. I received my bachelors degree in computer science from the Honors College at Kent State University. I completed my sophomore year at the University of Ulster in Coleraine, Northern Ireland.