On July 9, 1996, I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University. I worked at Rutgers as a Graduate Assistant for the High-Performance Computing and Design Project. My advisors at Rutgers were Tom Ellman and Andrew Gelsey.
After graduating from Rutgers, I did a 2-year postdoc at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD (near DC). My advisor at NIST was Ram Duvvuru Sriram.
On August 31, 1998, I began working at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California (near San Francisco).