Education

Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Mathematics (Double Major) from Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana
Master of Science in Computer Studies (Minor in Operations Research) from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Want to see a picture of me and some friends? large version (2769x2198 pixels)
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY

Research Projects

Master's Thesis: Shape Preserving Approximation to Data Sampled with Error Over a Rectangular Grid, under the direction of Dr. David McAllister.
The problem was to find a smooth surface approximating a set of points in three dimensions. The resulting surface minimized the number of convexity changes in the two dimensional cross sections along grid lines, while staying within the specified error bounds for each point.
Doctoral Dissertation Feature Indexed Similar Shape Retrieval Techniques for searching a large image database for object similar in shape to a query object were developed and implemented. Both two dimensional and three dimensional characteristics of objects were used. Both methods utilized an indexing scheme for rapid retrieval.

Janet Gary, a middle school social studies teacher at Henry Moss Middle School in Bowling Green.

My hobbies include reading (non-fiction and science fiction primarily) and playing the banjo (poorly).
My favorite:
- author is Stephen R. Donaldson
- musician is Bela Fleck
- vocalist is Maura O'Connell.
- male vocalist is Don Dixon.