I am currently in the middle of my 3rd year of a PhD program in the Industrial & Systems Engineering Department at Lehigh University. My research on Dynamic Vehicle Allocation is in the application area of full truckload long-haul trucking and is funded by the National Science Foundation's "Integrated Graduate Education & Research Training" (IGERT) Fellowship program.

In the spring of 2004 I will be going overseas to (the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) to do a semester abroad of research for my dissertation. I'll hope to gain some different prespective from my colleagues in Hong Kong, as well just enjoy SouthEast Asia. I speak Mandarin Chinese, not Cantonese (a totally different spoken dialect in every way), so I'll have a bit of a language barrier to overcome. At least the writing is the same!