My name is Pierre St Juste. I am a PhD student at the University of Florida under the advisement of Dr. Renato Figueiredo. I am also proud to say that I am a graduate student of the Advanced Computing and Information Systems Lab (www.acis.ufl.edu). I received my Bachelor’s of Science Degree in 2005 and my Master’s of Science Degree in 2007. Both degrees were in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida. I am a student member of NSBE, IEEE, and ACM. I am also a McKnight Fellow. My research interests are in social networks, virtual networks, overlay networks, autonomic computing, distributed computing, grid computing, and virtual machines.