I am an Assistant Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. I joined the faculty at Waterloo in June, 2006. Prior to joining the faculty at Waterloo, I worked as:

• an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at San Francisco State University (2002 - 2006).
• a Post-Doctoral Intern at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (2001).
• the Chief Technical Officer of MediaShell, a Queen's University spin-off company (2000 - 2001).
• an Adjunct Professor at Queen's University (1997 - 2001).

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Queen's University in 2001 under the supervision of Dorothea Blostein. My undergraduate degree is in Honours Physics, and I also have a minor in Computer Science and a Diploma in Engineering, all awarded by the University of Prince Edward Island in 1994.

Information on research, teaching, and HCI at Waterloo can be found by following the links above.

Awards

I have been fortunate enough to receive several awards during my academic career including:

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award, the NSF's most prestigious award for young faculty (2004).
• Centre of Excellence for Information Technology of Ontario (CITO) Award for excellence in graduate student research (2001).
• Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award at the IBM-sponsored Centre for Advanced Studies Conference, CASCON (2000).
• Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Post-Graduate Scholarships for both Masters and Doctoral studies (1994 - 1998).
• Governor General's Medal (Undergraduate) from UPEI for placing first in my graduating class.