My research interests lie mainly in the creation of tools for physics analysis. I began developing software for HEP purposes as a summer student at CERN, writing a C++ API for the ISAJET event-generation package. As a Master's and Ph.D. student I wrote custom modules for analysing/babar data, and later a fast simulation of the DIRC component of the SuperB experiment.

I am the designer and lead developer of the GooFit fitting package, and have given courses at the University of Cincinnati and at CERN in CUDA programming and use of GooFit. I am involved with the QuarkNet outreach program, bringing high-school students and teachers to the university to gain experience with HEP theory and research. I have been known to learn a new programming language in my spare time, for fun.