I am a PhD student in the Computer Science department of Cornell University. I received my Bachelor's degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2007. I am originally from Portland, Oregon, which is where, in high school, I began dating my current wife, Elizabeth.
I am currently working with Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse, and Hakim Weatherspoon, on various aspects of distributed computing, especially fault-tolerance and datacenters. My current project is on TCP state replication for fault-tolerance and failover.