I grew up in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia, where I worked as a systems administrator and programmer there for LSNet until I went off to college at the University of Virginia. There I took a pair of bachelors degrees in physics and math, then enrolled at the Rockefeller University for a foray in biology. This took me to the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. After all this, I pass as a native in computer science, mathematics, physics, and biology.

I have played the violin since the age of four, and many instruments as well in the meantime. I have done a broad range of dancing, from samba and tango to the reconstruction of Renaissance Italian dance. Over the last decade and a half, I practiced karate and capoeira, before finally settling into the study of pa kua zhang in 2005.

Now I live on the shores of Lac Léman near Lausanne in Switzerland, and work in the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core Facility at the EPFL.

Last updated December 10, 2009.