PhD Completed, September 2002, at the Computer Science Department of New York University.

My dissertation title was Responsive Thinwire Visualization of Large Geographic Datasets. You can download it in ps.gz (730 KB) or pdf (1.2 MB) formats. In lay terms, I've built a system for viewing road maps on the internet, with smooth zooming and panning. This project was part of Chee Yap's Active Visualization group.

You can try out a demo of the system showing the contiguous continental United States (48 states plus the District of Columbia) all the way down to street level.

In the past, I worked with Richard Cole and Alan Siegel on automating the process of drawing electoral district boundaries, which occurs in the United States every ten years. You can try out the system we built, but I haven't been maintaining that demo, and I'm afraid it has stopped working. I also did some work on Thinksheet, which is, in the words of its brainchild Dennis Shasha, "a tool to tailor information flow for readers of complex (or boring) documents". Going way back, I also worked on distributed mutual exclusion with Kia Makki, and others.

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