You can email me at rios (at) soe.ucsc.edu.

I'm a PhD candidate in the computer engineering department at UC Santa Cruz.  I've been here three full years.  Prior to that I completed my Master's degree in computer science at CSU Hayward.

Before going back to grad school, I taught high school for a while.  I got my start doing that by joining the Peace Corps and teaching for two years on a super tiny island in Papua New Guinea.  You can read more about that here.

My current research is focused on Traffic Flow Management (TFM) of the National Airspace System.  I am currently looking at way to accelerate the large number of computations that are necessary to perform real-time TFM (something that isn't really done much now).  Prior to that I was looking at placement and routing problems for FPGAs.

Sound kinda boring?  Well at least I'm not reading random "about me" pages of poor grad students.  See that?  See what I did there?  I kinda made fun of you while also making fun of myself being boring.  Man.  I think that is a cue that I have typed enough here.