Research Interests

Since Summer 2006 I've been working with Jim Reggia and the Biologically-Inspired Computing Group, where my research concerns neural networks, self-organization, and approaches to biologically-plausible models of natural language acquisition. I just received an NSF IGERT Fellowship to work in UMCP's new Biological and Computational Foundations of Language Diversity program, and as such have been working closely with the Linguistics, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, and other departments recently.

I have previously worked:

• with Bobby Bhattacharjee, Adam Bender, Nate Goergen, and others on DHTBL and NeighborhoodWatch, a secure distributed hash table (DHT) that supports spam blacklists;
• with Dana Nau and Nat Ayewah on a temporal-logic-enabled derivative of the hierarchal task network (HTN) planner JSHOP2, called TL-SHOP;
• with Cesare Tinelli on an XOR-theory for the satisfiability-modulo-theory solver Sammy; and,
• with Sriram Pemmaraju on alternative methods for determining graph isomorphisms for Combinatorica.

Recent Publications