I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine and a member of the Institute of Software Research. My advisor is Professor Richard N. Taylor.

My research interests are in Software Architecture and Design, specifically in the evolving and decentralized architecture of Web applications, with focus in the e-commerce domain. My current work is on the qualitative evaluation of e-commerce architectures, on the integration of e-commerce components—negotiation, contracts, and workflow—and to follow, the experimentation with the COAST infrastructure (refer to projects section) for implementing application prototypes.

In addition, I am interested in the privacy domain, with focus on user-oriented privacy-preserving techniques for personalized information services, mostly those within the medical information systems realms. I had the opportunity of doing research in this area during my summer internship at CommerceNet (Palo Alto, June-August 2012).