Education and Honors

• University of California - San Diego, current
  • Working towards a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science
  • Advanced to Candidacy (CPhil), December 2007
  • M.S. in Computer Science, March 2007
  • Fellow at the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center
  • NSF IGERT fellow in Vision and Learning in Humans and Machines
  • Awarded the David Marr Prize at the 27th Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in 2005
• University of Rochester, 2003
  • Major: Computer science (BS - Valedictorian)
  • Major: Cognitive science (BA - Valedictorian)
  • Minor: Philosophy
  • Graduated Magna Cum Laude
  • Member of Phi Beta Kappa
• University of Sussex, 2002
  • Abroad at the College of Cognitive and Computing Sciences

Graduate Courses

• BGGN 246A - Computational Neurobiology
• BGGN 248 - Perception as Bayesian Inference
• COGS 200 - Vision and Learning in Humans and Machines
• COGS 200 - Neurophilosophy
• COGS 200 - Neuro Enigmas I
• COGS 200 - Neuro Enigmas II
• COGS 200 - Time and Cognition
• COGS 200 - Science and Morality
• COGS 202 - Computational Models of Cognition
• COGS 260 - Object Recognition
• COGS 260 - The Self Organizing Brain
• COGS 275 - Visual Modeling
• CSE 166 - Image Processing
• CSE 200 - Computability and Complexity
• CSE 202 - Algorithm Design and Analysis
• CSE 221 - Operating Systems
• CSE 240a - Computer Architecture
• CSE 250b - Artificial Intelligence II: Intro to Machine Learning
• CSE 252a - Computer Vision I
• CSE 252b - Vision II - Structure from motion
• CSE 252c - Topics in Computer Vision
• CSE 258a - Cognitive Modeling
• CSE 258a - Connectionist Natural Language Processing
• CSE 259 - AI Seminar
• CSE 271 - User Interface Design
• CSE 291 - Online Learning
• CSE 291 - Probabilistic Methods in AI (Graphical Models)
• CSE 599 - Teaching Methods for Computer Science
• ECE 285 - Statistical Learning I
• ECE 295 - Graduate Seminar in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning
• LING 265 - Topics in Computational Linguistics
• MATH 281A - Mathematical Statistics
• PSYC 201 - Experimental Design and Analysis
• PSYC 221 - Sensation and Perception
• PSYC 223 - Advanced Topics in Vision