About me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Genetics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (GIDP) at the University of Arizona. Originally trained as a wet lab chemist/biologist, I transitioned into the world of computational biology in 2020 and have been hooked ever since. Currently, I’m working on my doctoral dissertation projects in the Guntekunst Research Group in the exciting field of population genomics. My research lies at the intersection of deep learning and genomics, where I develop deep learning methods for inference of population history and natural selection from genomic variation data. For more details on my present and past projects, see Projects.

I was born and raised in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I came to the United States in 2012 to pursue a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. After college, I worked at the University of Pennsylvania for two years as a lab technician before moving to Tucson, Arizona for graduate school in 2018. I’m graduating with a Ph.D. in Genetics in May 2024 and am currently open to post-PhD positions, broadly at the intersection of computational methods and genomics. Outside of research, I enjoy crocheting/knitting, taking care of my house plants, and studying languages (currently Korean and Chinese).