A Maryland native, I attended Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (H.S.), completing the rigorous engineering track. Thereafter, I was accepted to Meyerhoff Scholars Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and earned a B.S. in computer engineering. Research Experience for Undergraduates on the campuses of West Virginia University, Colorado, and U.C. Riverside led me to pursue graduate education in the field of biometrics. Currently, I am in my second year at the University of Notre Dame as a Deans' Fellow in the Computer Vision Research Lab. My research areas include face recognition and clustering.