Welcome
Update: I am no longer a student at UNC! I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation in the computer science department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on May 5, 2009, and I graduated in August, 2009. With the help of advisors Kevin Jeffay and Don Smith, I devised a novel way of managing the performance of a diverse set of network-based applications.
Surprisingly (to me at least), life hasn't changed all that much since graduation. I still live in Durham, NC, and I am still working on the same sort of problems. However, the focus has changed from completing a dissertation to launching a startup based on the same research. I am currently attending UNC's Launching the Venture course, which is a wonderful crash-course in entrepreneurship. I also stay busy with various consulting gigs, including TSMworks, a local enterprise storage services startup, and Collempo.com, a local startup with a fresh take on employment after college. I am a happy member of Grace Church of Chapel Hill and an increasingly avid Ruby on Rails programmer.
The summer of 2007, I worked with Colleen Shannon and David Moore at CAIDA, the cooperative association for Internet Data Analysis. I spent the summer of 2006 with Vern Paxson and Mark Allman at the ICSI Center for Internet Research (ICIR) in Berkeley, California, resulting in a paper at IMC 2007 titled A Brief History of Scanning.
For the 2006-2007 school year, I served as the president of the UNC Computer Science Students Association.
See also
- cgi-bin/
- Network Trace Request Tool