I am currently a PhD student in the Computer Science department at Cornell University. I work in the database group with Professor Johannes Gehrke I am broadly interested in data management, particularly in novel applications of query processing techniques. I am currently working on the data-driven games project, which uses data management techniques to improve computer game performance. I recently graduated from Carleton College, a small liberal-arts school in Northfield, Minnesota. Before that, I grew up in Omaha, Nebraska.