I am interested firstly in artificially evolving genotypes that code for the developmental processes that create recurrent neural networks as well as the plasticity rules that specify how these networks should be tuned in response to their environment. And secondly in analyzing these networks within the framework of Dynamical systems to understand how their dynamical behaviour gives rise to their computational abilities. I received my undergraduate degree from Vassar College, where I majored in Computer Science and Math. Following that, I worked as a Software engineer for two years at Oracle Corp. For the past two years I have been a graduate student at the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at the University of Rochester.