Paúl Pauca, myself, and team of programmers created Verbal Victor, an augmented communication device for children with communication problems. The website is here. VerbalVictor currently runs on iOS, with dedicated iPhone and iPad versions available in the iStore.

We've sold over 2000 copies, garnered press in the AP and CNN (video), and Dr. Pauca has extended the success of VerbalVictor in a Software Engineering course at Wake Forest that produced several more new promising assistive applications.

Greg Wilson created Software Carpentry, to teach programming concepts to scientists and other makers and users of software. I created the NumPy and Matlab content for Version 4.0 of the site. I also led a 2 day software skills bootcamp on November 7-8, 2011 at the University of Toronto. In February, I'll be heading to ICTP in Trieste, Italy to help teach a course called "Advanced School on Scientific Software Development: Concepts and Tools." We'll be teaching scientists from all over the world how to incorporate software engineering principles into their scientific software.

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. In my research, I explore the possibilities of computational imaging for assistive and collaborative interaction.

I have explored Stochastic Solutions to chemical systems. In particular, I looked at ways to compute sensitivity to initial conditions or to initial molecule counts. The finance community has made great strides in computing sensitivities in the continuous stochastic case (see The Greeks). I examined ways to take speed up sensitivity calculations when the number of molecules required that simulation be discrete (Poisson process) rather than continuous (Brownian motion). I still maintain my interest in stochastic systems and numerical software, particularly statistical software, through a consulting arrangement in biostatistics.

I maintain a consulting relationship with the Statistical Genetics Group at the Wake Forest University School of Public Health, where I worked while completing my M.S. in Computer Science. I maintain two software packages I wrote. The larger of the two, SNPLash, is a fully parallel statistical engine that performs quantitative and qualitative single-locus association tests, interaction tests, haplotype computation and association testing, and linkage disequilibrium statistics. Beta versions are available by request.