About me

Hello! I am a Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Fellow in Barbara Engelhardt’s lab at UCSF-Gladstone and Stanford University. My current research involves developing deep learning models to jointly analyze live-cell imaging and genomic data, with the end-goal of developing safer and more effective immunotherapies. Previously, I completed my Computational Biology PhD in Sohrab Shah’s lab at MSKCC where I developed Bayesian models to study cancer evolution, DNA copy number, and replication timing. I received my BS in Bioengineering at UCLA while using binding kinetic models and tensor factorization to engineer mutant IL-2 cytokines in Aaron Meyer’s lab. My interests are broad but can be best described as wishing use machine learning to better understand, and therefore thereapeutically combat, complex diseases such as cancer and immune disorders.