Commercial Property : Rotary Youth Exchange

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Rotary Youth Exchange

For some reason, people have guessed at some point that I'm from each inhabited continent, including places like Australia that I have yet to visit. I was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, but only lived there for my first six months. Since then, I've lived for a year or more in each of Pittsburgh, Madison (Wisconsin), Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Fredrikstad (Norway), Houston, Cambridge (England) and Cambridge (Massachusetts) before moving to New York.

I graduated from high school in Minnesota, spending a year as a Rotary Youth Exchange student in Norway. I won the Norwegian national math competition and had the somewhat bizarre fortune to represent Norway at the International Math Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey. I won a full scholarship to Rice University and graduated at the top of my class with a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a B.A. in Mathematics. I also took a variety of biology, biochemistry, and bioengineering courses and did research on neural motor control in a lab at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

I won one of ten Churchill Scholarships awarded annually to American students and spent a year doing a research master's degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Cambridge, where I studied the neural mechanisms for visual motion detection using both electrophysiology and computational modeling.