Resume

2001-Present: Pursuing PhD in Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 4.0 GPA.
2001: Master's Degree in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 4.0 GPA.
1999: Bachelor's Degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Alaska at Fairbanks, 4.0 GPA
1998: Barry Goldwater Memorial Scholar
1995: National Science Scholar
1995: National Merit Scholar
1990-95: 4.0 GPA, Glennallen High School

Fall 1999-present: Worked with Dr. L. M. Kale of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on the C++ library Charm, an advanced parallel programming runtime system.
Summer 1999: Wrote a Java GUI for a novel visual lanugage during summer internship with IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Spring 1997-Summer 1999: Wrote and maintained UNIX satellite imaging code in C for Unix machines at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks Alaska SAR Facility STEP Lab.

2001: Supporting Dynamic Parallel Object Arrays accepted for publication at the ISCOPE/JavaGrande 2001 conference.
1999: Awarded "Outstanding" rating in UMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling. Our paper on building evacuation published in UMAP journal.
1998: Grand Prize Winner, ACM/IBM Quest for Java.
1997: Awarded "Outstanding" rating in the UMAP International Mathematical Contest in Modeling. Our paper on pursuit published in UMAP journal.
1996, 1997: Placed 7th of 44 teams in Northwest Regional contest of ACM International Intercollegiate Programming Contest.