I received my Ph.D. degree under the guidance of  Prof. Doron Zeilberger in the Department of Mathematics at Temple University in April 2004.

I am currently studying Combinatorial Games, especially Chomp, Wythoff's Game and Peg Solitaire. There are also some results on Ternary Square-free words. I am also a research assistant in an NSF-supported project on using shape similarity of polylines for robot mapping and localization.

Publications: Building Polygonal Maps from Laser Range Data. Int. Cognitive Robotics Workshop, Valencia, Spain, August 2004 Construction of Global Maps with Polygonal Objects from Laser Range Data (with L. J. Latecki, R. Lakaemper, and D. Wolter), IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications (RA 2004), Hawaii, USA, August 2004 Shape-Based Robot Mapping (with L. J. Latecki, R. Lakaemper, and D. Wolter), 27th German Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Ulm, Germany, September 2004 On Fraenkel's N-Heap Wythoff's Conjectures  (with Doron Zeilberger), Annals of Combinatorics 8 (2004), 225-238 New Lower-Bound On The Number of Ternary Square-Free Words, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 6 (2003), Article 03.3.2 Improvements on Chomp, Integers, Vol. 2 (2002) Wythoff's Sequence and N-Heap Wythoff's Conjectures, submitted

Dissertation: Computer-Assisted and Computer-Generated Research in Combinatorial Games and Pattern-Avoidance (pdf, ps)

Teaching Experience: Math 74 College Algebra and Trigonometry at Temple University Math 45 College Algebra at Temple University College Mathematics at Temple University Java at Temple University Center of Advanced Technology (TUCAT) Applied Operating System Concepts at Villanova University Advanced Mathematics at Jilin University, Jilin, China

Additional Documents: Curriculum Vitae Research Plan Teaching Statement

And of course, I have a personal life.