Before Genentech, I was a postdoctoral scientist at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. I had my fingers in several pies, but I was primarily involved in automated pattern discovery in protein sequences which were related by function (spat and references therein), or structure (such as FSSP families; unpublished).

In 1998, I completed a Ph.D. in molecular biophysics with Jay Ponder at the Washington University  School of Medicine. My Ph.D. thesis, Potential Function Smoothing with Applications to Molecular Docking is available online [ abstract | thesis ].

In 1994, I completed a Masters degree in Computer Science through The Institute for Biomedical Computing at Washington University. My thesis, An Object-Oriented System for Automated DNA Sequence Analysis, is available online [ thesis ]. The source code for the system is public domain.

Please see my Curriculum Vitae [PDF | HTML] and my research interests.

And, way back in 1990 (before bell bottoms inexplicably became cool again) I graduated from UCSD with a BA in molecular biology. I worked at The Salk Institute for three years (two as an undergrad). Ocean-view dorm rooms and labs can't be beat.

I've got a few hobbies. I've been an instrument rated private pilot since 1990 and have about 500 hours, mostly single-engine. I was an avid windsurfer and skier (alpine and cross country), but then I got plopped in the midwest and that was the end of that. I play ultimate regularly, and volleyball and Go whenever I can. I'm a linux evangelist and occasionally dream in perl.

• Fight pointless government regulation of encryption. CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES NOW!
• Boycott spammers and those who facilitate it.
• Lotus Notes stinks. As another IBMer once said: "It's an undergrad computer science project gone horribly, horribly wrong.".