Post-doctoral fellow
2019 Post-doctoral fellow, Bioinformatics and Cellular Genomics,
St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
2018 Visiting researcher, Insight Center for Data Analytics,
Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
2014 - 2019 PhD. Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing,
Michigan, USA
2012 - 2014 Research Assistant, Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, New York,
USA
2008 - 2012 BA, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Middlebury College,
Middlebury, Vermont, USA
2019 Best Flash Talk Award, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Consortium
(GLBRC)
2018 Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide Fellowship, National
Science Foundation (NSF)
2018 Best Flash Talk Award, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Consortium
(GLBRC)
2017 Best Poster Award, Environmental Science Policy Program at MSU
2015 Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation (NSF)
2014 Recruitment Fellowship, Environmental Science Policy Program at
MSU
2011 Beck Botanical Research Fellowship, Middlebury College
Single Cell Methods
I am working on developing statistical methods and software to study the effects of DNA variation on gene expression in individual cells. Improving our ability to study functional genomics at the single cell level will make it possible to explain the contexts in which genetic variants affect important traits like gene expression, disease risk, and drug response.
Interpretable Machine Learning
Machine learning has emerged as a critical tool for making sense of the growing amount of genetic and genomic data available because of its ability to find complex patterns in high dimensional and heterogeneous data. I am interested in developing methods that make the inner workings of machine learning models understandable to researchers so that these models can provide novel insights into today’s most pressing questions in genetics, genomics, agriculture, and medicine.