I grew up outside Madison, WI. After high school, I went to Penn State for two years and then returned to the University of Wisconsin, where I received a B.A. in English and a J.B.A. in Journalism. During this time, I was also a cab driver for Union Cab, one of the nation's largest worker-owned cooperatives. This is where I met my wife, Holly. (She was also a driver.) Holly and I moved to San Francisco, where I eventually received an M.S. in Computer Science from San Francisco State University. While I was at SFSU, I also had the opportunity to work at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. In 1997, we moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to attend graduate school at the University of Michigan. I worked with Ed Durfee in the AI Lab and, in my free time, was a DJ and Production Director at WCBN. I received my Ph.D. in 2002 from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.
I currently live in San Francisco and am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of San Francisco. (No, not that one. Or that one. Or that one.) I live with Holly, Flannery, and Charlie. We still miss Fran and Leah.