Education

• Middle Tennessee State University

  BS

  Computer Science
  
  

• University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

  Computer Science
  My research was in text mining and machine learning. The title of my dissertation is "Textual Influence Modeling Through Non-Negative Tensor Decomposition"
  

• University of Tennessee-Knoxville

  MS

  Computer Science
  
  

• University of Tennessee

  Software Developer

  
  I worked with Dr. John Toman on a part time basis to create and maintain several ASP.NET applications. My primary duty was to create and maintain an Agronomics application which is used to publish soybean yield data to the general public. Programming Languages / Technologies Used C# ASP.NET Microsoft SQL Server 2005
  

• University of Tennessee

  Graduate Research Assistant

  
  As a research assistant working under Dr. Vandana Singh of the School of Information Systems, I was responsible for maintaining the website http://oss-research.com. In addition to performing the duties of webmaster, I have also engaged in creation of surveys, collection of data, and co-authorship of papers relating to Dr. Singh's research project. The overall goal of the project I participated in is a comparative study of Open Source Integrated Library Systems and Proprietary Integrated Library Systems.