About me
I am a Computational Scientist at Counsyl. I work on retrospective analyses of our expanded carrier screening and non-invasive prenatal screening products to demonstrate the clinical utility and clinical experience of our products.
Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley, with a joint appointment in the School of Public Health and the Integrative Biology Dept, co-advised by Dr. Eva Harris and Dr. Mike Boots. I used mathematical and statistical approaches to understand how the immune response to infection with arboviruses (zika, dengue and chikungunya) shapes disease spread.
I completed my PhD in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Duke University in Spring 2016, advised by Dr. Katia Koelle. In my dissertation I used quantitative approaches to understand the immune mechanisms driving the viral patterns of individuals hospitalized with dengue. I applied these findings to understand the emergence of novel dengue strains causing severe disease.
From 2010-2011 I was an education fellow at MATCH Public Charter High School in Boston, teaching Calculus and mentoring and tutoring students in Math, English and Biology.
I completed my BS in Computational and Systems Biology with a minor in Mathematics at UCLA in 2010. As an undergraduate, I conducted research on optimal treatment for pediatric thyroid cancer with Dr. Joe DiStefano III and Dr. Marisa Eisenberg, wrote for the campus newspaper, The Daily Bruin, and tutored children in reading, writing and math in Watts and Mar Vista, Los Angeles.
I am a Computational Scientist at Counsyl. I work on retrospective analyses of our expanded carrier screening and non-invasive prenatal screening products to demonstrate the clinical utility and clinical experience of our products.
Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley, with a joint appointment in the School of Public Health and the Integrative Biology Dept, co-advised by Dr. Eva Harris and Dr. Mike Boots. I used mathematical and statistical approaches to understand how the immune response to infection with arboviruses (zika, dengue and chikungunya) shapes disease spread.
I completed my PhD in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Duke University in Spring 2016, advised by Dr. Katia Koelle. In my dissertation I used quantitative approaches to understand the immune mechanisms driving the viral patterns of individuals hospitalized with dengue. I applied these findings to understand the emergence of novel dengue strains causing severe disease.
From 2010-2011 I was an education fellow at MATCH Public Charter High School in Boston, teaching Calculus and mentoring and tutoring students in Math, English and Biology.
I completed my BS in Computational and Systems Biology with a minor in Mathematics at UCLA in 2010. As an undergraduate, I conducted research on optimal treatment for pediatric thyroid cancer with Dr. Joe DiStefano III and Dr. Marisa Eisenberg, wrote for the campus newspaper, The Daily Bruin, and tutored children in reading, writing and math in Watts and Mar Vista, Los Angeles.