In 1999, I graduated from the University of Tennessee Knoxville with a double major in mathematics and computer science. In 2001, I received my MS in computer science under the direction of Dr. Michael Berry. After a short time in industry, I returned and joined Dr. Michael Langston's research team as a PhD candidate, where I currently work as a graduate research assistant. I am interested in all things related to computer science, from low-level programming and software engineering to theoretical topics such as graph theory and complexity theory. At the moment, my research focuses on applying graph-theoretic tools to problems in computational biology. See below for more details.