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EDUCATION
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'06-(11)
  Boston University www.bu.edu   Doctorate Candidate in Cognitive and Neural Systems cns.bu.edu       Dean's Scholarship       CELEST Research Assistantship       Research Advisor: Stephen Grossberg |
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'99-03
  University of Pennsylvania www.upenn.edu   Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science       Cum Laude with Distinction       GPA: 3.5/3.8       Minors in Computer Science, Philosophy and Physics       Honors Thesis "Evolving Minds" Genetic Evolution of Pulsed Neural Network Agents in a Simulated Environment       Class of 1954 Scholarship       Worcester Community Foundation Scholarship       Member of University Science and Technology Organization STWing |
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RESEARCH |
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'03-Present   The MITRE Corporation www.mitre.org   Senior Software Systems Engineer       Decision Support, Model Driven Architecture, Visualization & Collaboration Research       FY'06       Nomadic Collaboration Research Proposal Proposal refinement for assymetric groupware       SIMAN Experiment Release 2 Project Lead & Engineer (3-4 Team) for research on integration of tracking software into Air Force security architecture       FY'05       Decision Engineering Proposal Proposed cognitive HMI research inspired by Gladwell's "Blink", earned Spot Award       SIMAN Experiment Release 1 MDA Engineer for research on integration of the tracking software into Air Force security architecture       Model Driven Architecture TEM Presentation Presentation on MDA and KC iUML at a MITRE Full-day event       FY'04       Air Force Mission-Driven Prototype Sensor scheduling research with Doug Jensen www.real-time.org       Nonlinear Visualization Research '00-02   Technical Internship       Miscellaneous Prototypes |
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'02-03   Institute for Research in Cognitive Science www.ircs.upenn.edu & Linguistic Data Consortium ldc.upenn.edu   Text Annotation for Biomedical Information Extraction       Mining the Bibliome Project bioie.ldc.upenn.edu |
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'99   Enterprise Computing Institute Inc www.ecii.org (Now Syniad LLC www.syniad.net )   Software Engineer Internship       Expert Fuzzy Logic System Design and development of tool for constructing multi-layer networks of fuzzy logic relational mappings and network optimization via a genetic algorithm |
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RECENT CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE |
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    2006 MIT Life Sciences Conference, Challenges and Opportunites in Neuroscience (MIT ILP)
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA     Ninth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems   Boston University, Boston, MA     2005 Scalable Vector Graphics Open   University of Twente, Enschede, NL |