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I am a Masters of Engineering student in Computer Science at MIT, working with Professor Hari Balakrishnan in the Networks and Mobile Systems group in CSAIL. I graduated from MIT with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Chemistry in 2009.

I grew up in Fremont, California, and while my family currently calls Nashville, Tennessee home, I am a happy, messy, enthusiastic denizen of East Campus.

I love systems and network programming. I love the history of the Internet, have a great affection for old computers, and enjoy tinkering on electronics projects. I work through W. Richard Stevens books for fun.

I like keeping busy and always have a number of projects in the works. I am a member of MIT's Student Information Processing Board and have taught a variety of short classes under its auspices, including an Introduction to LaTeX, ``Unix is Your Friend'', and my personal favorite, ``The Internet Shouldn't Work''. Other activities in the recent past include blacksmithing, developing an iPhone app for a Mobile Application Competition, writing a music exploration website for a Web Programming Competition, various Arduino-driven bits of mischief, often centered around making lots of LEDs blink, participating in the Mobile Autonomous System Laboratory competition, DJing The Nightfly: In Blues We Trust, a blues, R&B, and funk radio show on WMBR, teaching Blues Piano, acting as a student member on the Committee on Academic Performance, LARPing with and eventually leading as Grandmistress the MIT Assassins' Guild, participating in an Autonomous Robot Design Competition, and working as Managing Editor for How To Get Around MIT.