Welcome! I am a 5th year doctoral student at the Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) in the School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

My thesis work is in the area of handwriting-based interfaces for intelligent tutoring systems for algebra equation-solving with my advisors, Jie Yang and Ken Koedinger. My general research interests involve the integration of multimodal technologies into cohesive, natural user interfaces for people using computers in a variety of tasks and environments. In addition to an M.S. in HCI from Carnegie Mellon, I have a B.S. and an M.S. in computer science with concentrations in artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and software engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For my M.S. thesis I used genetic programming to evolve board evaluation functions for computer agent players of the strategy game Acquire. My undergraduate research mostly involved creating a computer-aided conceptual design tool for engineers.

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