Education Ph.D. in Computer Science, Indiana University at Bloomington, June 2009 (GPA 3.95/4.0) Thesis advisor: Professor Randall Bramley Dissertation title: Building Sparse Linear Solver Component for Large Scale Scientific Simulation and Multi-physics Coupling M.S. in Computer Science, Indiana University at Bloomington, Nov. 2006. (GPA 3.92/4.0) M.S. Applied Mathematics, minor in computer science, University of North Carolina, May 2003 (4.0/4.0) Work Experience Assistant Scientist, USDOE Ames Laboratory, Scalable Computing Lab, 07/2009 – present Summer Intern, Tech-X Corporation (Research Oriented Company), Distributed Technologies Group, 05/2007 – 08/2007 Summer Intern, Scientific Computing Group, the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 06/2006 – 08/2006 Associated Instructor, Computer Science Department, Indiana University 01/2009 – 05/2009 Research Assistant, Computer Science Department, Extreme Lab, Indiana University 05/2004 – 08/2004, 05/2005 – 12/2008 Support Staff, HPC Support Group, Indiana University Wruble Computing Center, 09/2004 – 05/2005 Research Assistant, Computer Science Department under Professor David Wise 05/2003 – 05/2004 Java Tutor, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 08/2001 – 05/2002 Math lab Instructor, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 08/2000 – 05/2002