Education

B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Mathematics, M.S., Computer Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

• Summa cum laude, BYU Trustees Scholar, WordPerfect Scholar, National Merit Scholar

• Degrees awarded August 2000 (B.S.) and August 2003 (M.S.)

• Teaching assistant:

• CS 235 and CS 236 (Fundamentals of Computer Science)

• CS 345 (Operating Systems)

• CS 103 (Introduction to Programming)

• Master's Thesis: Querying Disjunctive Databases in Polynomial Time

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Computer Science Department Fellowship, 2003-2004

• DAIS seminar coordinator, 2004-2005

• Teaching assistant:

• CS 411 (Database Systems), Spring 2005

• CS 498sh (Introduction to Computer Security), Fall 2005

• CS 105 (Introduction to Computing for Non-Technical Majors) — Rated as Outstanding (top 10% of teaching assistants) by Center for Teaching Excellence, Spring 2006

• Expected graduation: 2007

Y Mountain, Provo, Utah, photograph taken by David Olson.