I am a second year PhD student at Purdue University, studying machine learning in relational domains with Professor Jennifer Neville. I am specifically interested in characterizing graphs via centrality/clustering/etc. type metrics, as well as bounding performance of relational classifiers. I received my B.S. from New Mexico State University in 2006, and my M.S. from the University of Colorado at Boulder, studying with Professor Greg Grudic. In addition to the relational learning, I have an interest in robotics, and work with Dr. Rob Platt on machine learning for robotic grasping.