Curriculum Vitae
Education
| Iowa State University | |
| Expected Ph.D. | May 2011 |
| Major | Bioinformatics and Computational Biology |
| Rotation Advisor | Dr. Vasant Honavar |
| Grade Point Average | 4.00/4.00 |
| University of Northern Iowa | |
| Bachelor of Arts with Honors | May 2006 |
| Honors Thesis | TestCASE Tool: A Software Engineering Aid |
| First Major | Computer Science |
| Advisors | Dr. Mark Fienup Dr. Janet Drake |
| Second Major | Management Information Systems |
| Advisor | Dr. Roberta Roth |
| Grade Point Average | 3.85/4.00 |
Consultancy Experience
| BCB Lab | A graduate student administered consultancy group for Iowa State University |
Research Projects
| Completed | ||
| 04/2007* | Gene Network Simulation for Testing Novel Network Solving Methods | Rotation project for Dr. Hui-Hsien Chou |
| 04/2007* | Viral Entomological Database Project | BCB Lab project for Dr. Lyric Bartholomay |
| 02/2007 | Search for Motifs in Putative Barley Promoters Found via Rice Homologues | Course project for Dr. Volker Brendel |
| 01/2007 | High Scoring Segment Statistics Randomization Test | Course project for Dr. Volker Brendel |
| 01/2007 | Gene Ontology Leaf Finder | Rotation project for Dr. Vasant Honavar |
| 11/2006 | Assist Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus Genome Sequencing Project | Rotation project for Dr. W. Allen Miller Contributed to National Science Foundation grant proposal |
| 11/2006 | Throttle: A Multiple Sequence Alignment Heuristic | Course project for Dr. Oliver Eulenstein |
| 04/2006 | TestCASE Tool: A Software Engineering Aid | B.A. Honors Project |
Scholarships and Fellowships
| Current | Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Fellow | Five year fellowship |
| Current | Iowa State University BCB Rotation | $20,000 |
| 2002-2006 | University of Northern Iowa Provost Scholar | $10,000 |
| 2002-2006 | Al and Clara Lake Trust Scholar | $3,600 |
| 2006 | University of Northern Iowa Computer Science | $1,000 |
Honors and Awards
| 2006 | Purple and Old Gold Award, University of Northern Iowa Computer Science |
| 2006 | Graduation with Honors, University of Northern Iowa |
| 2006 | Magna cum Laude, University of Northern Iowa |
| 2006 | Upsilon Pi Epsilon National Computer Science Honor Society, UNI Chapter |
| 2006 | Vice President, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, UNI Chapter |
Affiliations
| ACM | The Association for Computing Machinery |