September 2018 – July 2021

Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT – Cambridge, MA

Associate Computational Biologist II

At the Broad Institute, I am a member of the Getz Lab, one of the world’s leading labs for cancer genomics. I have worked on several exciting projects pushing at the forefront of the field. One was an analysis of genomic progression in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). For this project, I made use of a novel set of computational methods to reconstruct the trajectory of genomic events from exome sequencing data. This allowed us to see which mutations and other variants tend to occur early on in the progression of cancer, which will be useful in treatment development and prognosis.

August 2016 – May 2018

Integrative Systems Biology Lab – Atlanta, GA

Undergraduate Researcher

In the Integrative Systems Biology Lab at Georgia Tech, I worked with Dr. Denis Tsygankov on a project to simulate the biomechanics of solid tumors. For this project, I developed a tool to simulate densely packed cell populations under high pressure using time-evolving Voronoi diagrams, which is useful for analyzing tumor growth under specified conditions.

January 2017 – May 2017

Georgia Institute of Technology – Atlanta, GA

Data Analyst

As a data analyst for the Biomedical Engineering department of Georgia Tech, I worked with Professor James Rains to analyze the market data for hospitals in the United States. I created a UI using Matlab to easily analyze subsets of the data and used trends to identify market hotspots for medical devices.