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I am a Ph.D. candidate at Brown University , where I primarily work with Ritambhara Singh, Ph.D. and Sorin Istrail, Ph.D. My research is at the intersection of computer science , molecular biology , and statistics . My dissertation focuses on developing probabilistic and statistical algorithms for integrated analysis of single-cell multi-omics data, with an overall goal to understand gene expression regulation dynamics in health and disease. I am honored to be recognized as part of the Rising Stars in EECS
Before joining Brown, I received my bachelor’s degree in bioengineering from Olin College of Engineering . There, I worked with Jean J. Huang, Ph.D. and John Geddes, Ph.D. on bioinformatic analyses and dynamical modeling of microbial communities under various perturbations. Later, I worked in the Quantitative Biology Lab , led by Gene-Wei Li, Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) , as a research support associate and lab manager, exploring gene regulatory network rewiring in bacteria. In
Apart from computational biology, I have had the opportunity to work on various projects that can be found here . Outside of research , I enjoy holding boardgame events with friends, swimming, bird feeding, volunteering with Ten Lives Cat Rescue , and pretending I can properly play the ukulele and violin. Feel free to e-mail me if you’d like to talk.
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