History
I was born in Cory, PA in 1980.
I am the youngest of three sisters and have no brothers.
I was married to [Mike Cathey] in Walnutport, PA on December 23, 2001.

Education
In May 2002 I graduated (summa cum laude) with a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from [Soutern Adventist University].
I am currently attending [Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)]. I graduated with my MS in Computer Science in May 2004. I plan to defend my thesis in August 2007.

Employment/Experience
I have a diverse work history in various computing disciplines. For more information in this area you can view my [resume].

Interesting Fact about my family:
The education of all of my siblings and myself includes every major area of study. I cover the sciences, my sister Jennifer covers English/Literature and the Fine Arts, and our oldest sister, Holly, covers Health and Medicine with an A.S. in 0T.

Publications:

R. Cathey, E. Jensen, S. Beitzel, D. Grossman, O. Frieder, Using a Relational Database for Scalable XML Search, Submitted to the Journal of Supercomputing, June 2007. R. Cathey, E. Jensen, S. Beitzel, O. Frieder, D. Grossman, Exploiting Parallelism to Support Scalable Hierarchical Clustering, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Volume 58, Number 8, pp. 1207-1221, 2007. R. Cathey, S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Pilotto, D. Grossman, Relationally Mapping XML Queries for Scalable XML Search, Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), New Brunswick, NJ, May 2007. R. Cathey, S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, A. Pilotto, and D. Grossman. Measuring the Scalability of Relationally Mapped Semistructured Queries. In Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC). April 2004. [ps][pdf] R. Cathey, L. Ma, N. Goharian, and D. Grossman. Misuse Detection for Information Retrieval Systems. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). November 2003. [pdf] S. Beitzel, E. Jensen, R. Cathey, L. Ma, D. Grossman, O. Frieder, A. Chowdhury, G. Pass, H. Vandermolen, IIT at TREC-2003: Task Classification and Document Structure for Known-Item Search, Proceedings of the 12th Annual Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-2003), NIST, November 2003. R. Cathey, L. Ma, N. Goharian, and D. Grossman. Misuse Detection for Information Retrieval Systems: A Preliminary Approach. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA). June 2003. [pdf]