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Greetings! I am an assistant professor of mathematical sciences at Clemson University, in Clemson, SC. The Scientist (magazine) ranked Clemson #1 in their 2005 "Best Places to Work in Academia" survey, and then #3 in their 2007 survey (but #1 among universities). In 2008, Clemson finished 1st in the country in the "Top 10 Schools with the Happiest Students" survey. Also in 2008, Clemson was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the 22nd best national public university in the U.S., and got recognition as a "school to watch".

Before coming to Clemson, I was a Research, and then Postdoctoral Associate at the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech. For a more detailed description for what I worked on (and continue to work on) with my group at VBI, check here.

I began working with this research group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, 7300 ft up in the in Northern New Mexico Rockies, where I spent the summers of 2003 and 2004. If that sentence made you cringe, then you've probably heard too much biased propaganda, and you should read my article.

Currently, I am spending the Summer of 2009 in Seattle, WA visiting Ilya Shmulevich's research group at the Institute for Systems Biology, and the Mathematics Department at the Univeristy of Washington, where I am helping out at their REU.

I received my M.A. and Ph.D. in mathematics from UCSB. I also have a B.S. in Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College, and a pretty certificate from spending a semester studying mathematics in Budapest, Hungary. Originally, I hail from the wonderful city of Seattle.