I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rhode Island. I lead the Algorithms for Big Data research group at URI, and collaboratively lead the MEDFORD metadata project at Tufts. My research primarily focuses on algorithms that scale to enormous, rapidly growing, high-dimensional datasets, enabling myriad computational tasks including search, anomaly detection, machine learning, and visualization.

I received my Ph.D in computer science from Tufts University. My advisor was Lenore Cowen. I subsequently did a postdoc at MIT with Bonnie Berger. Prior to my time in academia, I spent a decade in industry as a UNIX sysadmin and programmer, and was involved in several interesting startups.

I live in North Kingstown, RI with my wife, Rachel Daniels, and our ferret Mallory.

My Erdös number is at most 3, by at least 3 paths.