I like abstractions: trees, networks, random matrices, and double helices
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Featured Work (Update in progress)
Current:
- Biomedical Data Science master’s student at Stanford University
Past:
Loyal for Dogs
- Deep dive into drug candidate literature for the VP of Aging Biology. Computational analysis of dog breeds and differential epigenetic markers of aging.
Rockefeller University
- Analyzed infection patterns of SARS-CoV-2 in brain and lung organoids. Also developed image analysis pipeline based on Watershed thresholding to quantify radial profiles on microchips.
Google
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Google Summer of Code open source contributor to DeepChem.
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Conducted review of Health, X, Brain, and other bets’ projects at interface of medicine and technology.
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Scoped and designed transformation of onboarding process for technical candidates in cross-functional teams.
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Genentech summer internship: Methods for decomposing cellular signaling.
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Bioinformatician at the Corces Lab at the Gladstone Institutes. Updating and developing ArchR. NIH grant for 2 years.
Brilliant.org
Wrote a course on “Statistics for Life Scientists”. Use this link for 20% off!
Network Science
- My first exposure to complex systems and network engineering. Built a “semantic continuum” that Facebook used to inform its content moderation efforts. More info here. Also briefly worked under Duncan J. Watts and Mark E. Whiting.
Octant Bio
- Luciferase screening pipeline.
- Automated features of their robotics platform.
🎤 Scientific Communication
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Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences at Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2022 blog post
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False Discoveries in Differential Expression Analyses video
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Effective gene expression prediction from sequence by integrating long-range interactions video
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ArchRBrowser: An interactive application for exploring epigenetic coverage tracks video
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Guatemalan magazine featuring women scientists
Communities I am part of:
Lime Connect, Adam Grant’s 238 Society, ISCB, ADDF’s Young Professionals Committee, Nucleate, ASHG, Bits in Bio, the Commons.
Out of Lab
- Tennis 🎾 as my constant. I enjoy trying new, initially-uncomfortable activities. Some of the ones I've stuck with are road biking, running, and HIIT training.
- Yoga 🧘♀️ reminds me I don't just live in my mind ☁️... and helps me find ease/strength in stillness.
- Borges, Neruda, poetry. Fiction, novels, and biographies mostly 📚 Check out my Goodreads.
- Practicing French 🇫🇷
- Finding coffee shops (especially ones with quality Matcha) 🍵. Currently backing Citizens. Read my article for Drift's Paris edition.
- I am part of Adam Grant’s 238 Society, looking to help improve motivation and generosity in the workplace.