Education
University of California (UC), Berkeley and UC San Francisco
2020 - present
UC Berkeley - UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering
PhD Thesis Advisor: Prof. Ian Holmes
- GPA: 3.9
- Select Coursework:
- BioEng 241: Probabilistic Modeling in Computational Biology
- CS 289: Introduction to Machine Learning
- CS 288: Natural Language Processing
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
2014 - 2019
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- GPA: 3.9
- Select Graduate-level Coursework:
- CBE 506: Advanced Engineering Mathematics
- CBE 475/575: Applied Microbiology and Bioengineering
- BME 480/580: Computational Cell Biology
Research Experience
Doctoral Research
2021 - present
UC Berkeley - UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering
PhD Thesis Advisor: Prof. Ian Holmes
Building statistical and machine learning models to better characterize and understand the engineering of Adeno-associated virus capsids
Research Rotations
2020-2021
UC Berkeley - UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering
Rotation 1: Prof. Christoph Kirst, Computational Theoretical Neuroscience
Rotation 2: Prof. Priya Moorjani, Causal Variant Discovery for South Asian Populations
Rotation 3: Prof. Ian Holmes, Machine Learning for Directed Evolution of Proteins
Fulbright Research Fellowship: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Aug 2019 - May 2020
Department of Plant Protection Biology, Alnarp, Sweden
Research Advisor: Prof. Erik Alexandersson
Technical Advisors: Dr. Daniel Jacobson, Prof. Kristina Gruden, Prof. Oren Tzfadia, Dr. Ziva Ramsak
Network-based Multiomic Data Integration for Exploration of Potato Plan Immunity Pathways
Department of Energy Internship: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jan 2018 - July 2019
Computational System Biology Group, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Research Advisor: Dr. Daniel Jacobson
Network-based Multiomic Data Integration at the Supercomputing Scale
Department of Energy Internship: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
June 2017 - Dec 2017
Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California
Research Advisor: Dr. Nathan Hilson
Automation and Scaling of Molecular Biological Experiments
Undergradaute Research Assistant: University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Aug 2015 - May 2017
Computational Immunology Group, Knoxville, Tennessee
Research Advisor: Prof. Steve Abel
Physics-based Simulations of Surface Protein Dynamics
National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates: University of Alabama
June 2016 - Aug 2016
Protein Engineering Group, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Research Advisor: Prof. Ryan Summers
Engineering Chimeric Caffeine-digesting Enzymes