I am a grad student at the University of Washington, pursuing a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering. My research interests include exploring programming models, languages, and compilers for the purposes of exposing and expressing parallelism in a way that existing architectures can use it. My research is done as part of the Computer Architecture group at UW (Sampa), with co-advisors Luis Ceze and Mark Oskin. With them, I am working on the Grappa project, an effort to improve performance of irregular applications on commodity clusters in software.