I'm a graduate student in the computer engineering group at Rice University in Houston, Texas. My main areas of study are network processor performance simulation, operating systems, peer-to-peer systems, and the Legend of Zelda. I did my undergraduate work at USC (fight on, Trojans!)
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.