| For a more complete account, please see my curriculum vitae (pdf).
I have worked in the Computer Science department at North Carolina State University since January, 2006. Previously, I worked at Northwestern University's Computer Science department before the College decided to merge it once more with the ECE department, creating the new EECS department. Before Northwestern, I worked at the University of Alberta's Department of Computing Science, where I was on the faculty since the summer of 1997. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science in August, 1997 under the kind supervision of Dr. Larry Hodges at Georgia Tech's College of Computing. I worked in the interdisciplinary < a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu">Graphics, Visualization and Usability (GVU) Center. Besides Dr. Hodges, the members of my committee were Neff Walker, Bill Ribarsky, Jarek Rossignac, and Greg Turk, all of whom taught me a great deal. I earned my Masters degree in CS at Georgia Tech in the summer of 1989. I received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine in 1987. I have also studied at the University of Stuttgart, the University of Mannheim, and the Goethe Institut in Bonn. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and speak fluent German. |