Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction
expected graduation: May 2006

At Georgia Tech, I've been building my skills in HCI through classes and project work. These skills include research methods, UI design, user testing, and the application of HCI to domains such as online communities, mobile devices, and physical computing.

My Spring 2006 courses:

• My master's project (mentored by Prof. Keith Edwards) is the design, development, and user testing of a combined physical and software interface to meeting room services.
  
  
• Product Interface Design is an industrial design course that focuses on bringing together physical and electronic interfaces into a unified whole.
  
  
• Experimental Media, taught by Ali Mazalek, is a workshop course that teaches tangible user interface design and physical prototyping techniques.
  
  
• As part of my practicum, I create products used as communication tools by HCI professionals. These include wireframes, flowcharts, & other design documents.

Carnegie Mellon University
B.S. in Computer Science and English, 1998

My classwork at CMU focused on computer graphics, algorithms, and media computation. I also studied poetry, journalism, and short fiction.

In addition, I worked as an undergraduate assistant for several research projects at Carnegie Mellon. These included:

• Parallel Genesis at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Genesis was a neuronal simulation toolkit developed at Caltech; our goal was to construct extensions that would enable asynchronous execution of Genesis nodes across multiple processors.
  
  
• DIPLOMAT was an automated natural-language translation project at the Language Technologies Institute.
  
  
• RCVW and APGD at the Digital Mapping Laboratory. These projects dealt with automated feature extraction from terrain and multispectral analysis of satellite imagery.