I received a Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences with a focus on Graph Theory and theoretical computer science in 1989. I began using applications of graphs and network analysis in molecular biology in 2004 and I also became interested in applications to biomedical science. I received funding from the NSF to study at the Quillen College of Medicine in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry in 2005 and at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications at the University of Minnesota in 2007 during their thematical year of applications in molecular and cellular biology. I have since published papers in computational structural biology and I have served on NSF review panels.