I am a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon. I consume caffeine and conduct research in computer engineering, sometimes producing interesting results. Mostly I just talk to the machines and they do what I say. In a past life, I did my undergrad at Notre Dame. I come originally from Portland, Oregon. Though others often believe that I was raised by a pack of wild computers, I actually hail from a family of fellow humans.
I do research on how to build better (faster, cheaper, more efficient) computer systems at the hardware level. I currently focus on core microarchitecture; previously I did work in on-chip interconnects as well as memory systems. I work with my advisor Prof. Onur Mutlu in the SAFARI research group, part of the Computer Architecture Lab at Carnegie Mellon (CALCM). I am fortunate to be supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. In 2009-2010 I was a recipient of an SRC Graduate Fellowship. In 2013-2014 I will be supported by the Bertucci Fellowship and an Honorable Mention in the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship.
A list of my publications can be found here.
Here at CMU, I had the pleasure of serving as head graduate TA for 18-447, Intro to Computer Architecture, in Spring 2012. Prior to that, I was the TA for 18-742, Parallel Computer Architecture, in Spring 2010. As an undergraduate at ND, I was a TA twice for CSE 20221, Digital Logic Design (in spring 2008 and spring 2009), and once for CSE 30321, Computer Architecture I (in fall 2008).