Educational Background:

I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at The College of William and Mary in scenic Williamsburg, Virginia. My dissertation research focused on the area of network modeling and involved developing an algorithm to optimize a computer network resource allocation problem. My thesis title was ``Virtual Path Bandwidth Distribution and Capacity Allocation with Bandwidth Sharing''. My dissertation advisor was Dr. Rahul Simha .

I received my M.S. in Computer Science from The College of William and Mary in May 1996. My master's research involved an area of cryptography known as Zero-Knowledge Proofs. My advisor for the project was Dr. Rahul Simha .

I got my B.S. in Math with a Minor in Computer Science from Allegheny College in 1994. It's a really small liberal arts college - about half the size of Mary Washington - in Northwestern Pennsylvania. My senior thesis was titled ``An Analysis of Matrix Multiplication Using Sequential and Parallel Programming Techniques.''