Education

• August 2003 - present: PhD student in Applied Math at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York
  Expected graduation: May 2008
• September 1999 - May 2003: B.Sc. in Mathematics and Engineering, Computing and Communication Option, at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada

Posters

Conference and Workshop Talks

• Practical Distance Computation in the Space of Phylogenetic Trees to be presented at the Future Directions in Phylogenetic Methods and Models workshop, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, Dec. 2007 [abstract] [talk]
• Linear Algorithm for Shortest Path Through Select Orthants presented at the 17th Fall Workshop on Computational and Combinatorial Geometry (FWCG), Hawthorne, NY, Nov. 2007 [2-page abstract]
• Computing the Distance Between Phylogenetic Trees at Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference 2007 (GSCC07), University of Washington, Seattle, April 2007

Teaching Experience

• Introduction to Cryptography in Spring 2007
• Introduction to Combinatorics 1 in Fall 2006
• Introduction to Programming (in Java) in Fall 2005 and Spring 2006
• Calculus 1 and 2 for engineers in Fall 2004 and Spring 2005, respectively.