• 05/23/05: I will be on vacation in the Yucatan Peninsula until June 2nd. As such I will be unable to respond to any phone messages or emails until I get back.
• 05/17/05: Posted my grades for this semester. I recieved a A+ in cs560 and my first ever B+ in cs581.
• 12/27/04: My heart goes out to all of my Indonesian friends. If there is anything that my family or myself can do please don't hestiant to ask.
  

I'm a second year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Computers and programming have long been a passion of mine dating back to my first computer which was an i386 compatible computer in 1987. I was exposed early on to Apple computers owned by the CS department located on the lower floor of Ayers Hall. I wrote my first program at the age of 11 in a simple language called BASIC. During high school I continued to "tinker" with computers and took several introductory computer classes. I learned several very simple languages (including a version of assembly language) during this period and I would often times help others with their computers. I managed several of the computer labs at my high school including a Macintosh lab for the Biology students. I was mostly using Windows computers (Windows 3.11 and 95) during this period after having been disgusted by direction (or lack thereof) the Apple operating system was taking. I finished high school at the top of my class. I attended UT on several full scholarships starting in 1998 and began with a focus in Biology. I switched to Computer Science after I found that Biology wasn't challenging enough. It was during this period that I also became involved with GNU/Linux and it has become my operating system of choice due to its superior design and implementation as well as the Open Source Movement that is it apart. I am a big believer in the the GPL license and most of the code that I offer on this site is distributed under it. I have worked for several local companies including Celerity and Ascend as well as private individuals. I am a member of the ACM and Upsilon Pi Epsilon (National Computer Honor Society) as well as number other generic honor societies. I graduated from the University of Tennessee in May 2003 as valedictorian (4.0 GPA) with a BS in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics. Since becoming a graduate student I have continued to excel in Computer Science (maintaining a 4.0 GPA). I should complete all of my master's requirements this coming school year and begin work on my PhD research and dissertation. I'm currently planning on focusing my studies on parallel and grid computing although many of my early classes have focused on network programming and their related protocols. My ultimate goal is become a professor at a major university and in addition to doing research begin teaching Computer Science to the coming generations of college students.