Welcome!

I am a recent graduate with a double bachelor's in computer science engineering and statistics from the University of California, Davis. I was the recipient of the UC Davis Computer Science Department's 2016 Outstanding Senior Award for teaching three undergraduate courses and for organizing and co-hosting over a dozen faculty talks aimed at bridging the divide between undergraduates and professors. I had the privilege of being the student speaker at the UC Davis College of Engineering's Commencement ceremony, where I spoke on the importance of ethics in engineering^1.2, and I also spoke at TEDxUCDavis 2016 on encouraging constructive student engagement with the Academic Senate.

It's typically good fashion to share a picture of oneself so that others will know what one looks like, so here's a shot from my most recent trip to Seattle.

My background is a little unorthodox. I competed heavily in speech and debate before college, and I struggled to find my major. I intially tried biomedical engineering, switched to business, and then pursued a major of my own creation aimed at studying persuasion and motivation. Along the way, I served as ASUCD Controller³ and on the UC Davis College of Engineering Dean Recruitment Advisory Committee, as well as a number of campus committees and honor societies.

<sup>1. The talk was inspired by Professor Phillip Rogaway's paper that I had a chance to comment on in his graduate seminar, Professor Norm Matloff's boundless patience for discussing student engagement, pedagogical theory and really anything with me, and Professor Matt Bishop's love of science fiction that reignited my interest in dreaming of possible worlds.↩
2. Sadly, the previous speaker's talk on how much money the graduating engineers were about to make was much better received.↩
3. Controller is a poorly chosen job title - the position was really CFO and COO. ↩</sup>