Ph.D. Candidate,
Computing Science Department,
University of Western Ontario.

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the computer science department at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. I am under the supervision of Dr. Marc Moreno Maza and Dr. Éric Schost. My masters degree was supervised by Dr. Michael Monagan at Simon Fraser University in the department of Mathematics.

My main area of research is computer algebra, specifically the study of polynomial systems. I am interested in solving these systems using Gröbner basis or regular chains. The emphasis of my research is the design and implementation of algorithms and the study of their complexities. I am also interested in the more general notions of polynomial arithmetic and monomial ordering.

The software I write is designed for the computer algebra system Maple, maintained by the Maplesoft company in Waterloo, Ontario. During the summer of 2008 I did a MITACS industrial internship [link] at Maple under the supervision of Dr. Jürgen Gerhard.

I am currently (summer 2012) on a research term studying Regular chains and Bezout's Theorem. My summer goal is to implement an efficient procedure for changing the variable ordering of a zero-dimensional regular chain.

My textbook with Jan Vrbik: Informal Introduction to Stochastic Processes with Maple is up for pre-order on Amazon.

My graduate studies are supported by an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship.