Trained as a computer scientist and mathematician, my work bridges fields from astroinformatics to biomedical informatics. I am in charge of research and development for the Solar Dynamics Observatory Content-Based Image Retrieval System. This system is designed to find similar solar images within the vast image repository of NASA's SDO mission. Current research work being done for this system involves using Lucene, deep learning, and other image retrieval and machine learning algorithms paired with computer vision techniques to find interesting regions within solar images.