I am a graduate student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I completed my M.S. in 2004, and will be finishing my doctorate in Spring, 2008. I work with Professor Shlomo Zilberstein and the Resource Bounded Reasoning research group.

My work is primarily in artificial intelligence and theoretical computer science. My thesis concerns the relationship between agent interaction structures and the difficulty of decision problems in decentralized, multi-agent domains. Other recent research involves complexity questions for logics of inconsistent belief, agents that learn to communicate in decentralized and stochastic domains, and automated or mixed-initiative methods of simplifying plan representations in order to make them easier for human beings to understand.

I am also interested in foundational and philosophical issues in formal logic, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. I received an M.A. from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, after completing my B.A. (Hon.) in the Philosophy Department at Simon Fraser University. I remain an Associate Member of the Laboratory for Logic and Experimental Philosophy at SFU.