2004 News

I'm researching web password hashing with John Mitchell and Dan Boneh at Stanford.

I created a new version of the Sura-Sura Kanji Quizzer with a database backend and improved user interface. The site helps students to rapidly memorize Japanese writing.

I've finished my ASP.NET application for the DCI Judge Certification Program in Seattle. The project should go public in a few months. Meanwhile, I'm driving from Seattle to Palo Alto and starting my studies at Stanford.

I was head judge of the Magic: the Gathering World Championships team competition in San Francisco. At that event, I received a promotion to Level 5 judge, the highest possible level within the DCI judge program.

My internship at the Center for Democracy and Technology included behind-the-scenes anti-spyware work in legislative policy, media pressure, and even a little private investigation. I'm now moving on to a six-week software developer position at Wizards of the Coast before I begin my studies at the Stanford computer science department.

I just started a ten-week internship at the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, DC.

Yale University has given me a Bachelor of Science degree with distinction in the Computer Science major and the Mathematics and Philosophy major. I graduate summa cum laude.

Students of Japanese may be interested in this kanji quizzer I made while studying for my Japanese final.

For a final project in the Computer Graphics course at Yale, I am developing the Matrix Convolutions game with Jamie Yoo and Jim Terry. The game is based on The Matrix and features stereograms hidden in streaming code.

After a very interesting school selection process, I have decided to attend the computer science Ph.D. program at Stanford University.

It appears that the National Science Foundation has seen fit to bestow me with a Graduate Research Fellowship. Thanks, NSF! Full list of winners here.