About me

I’m a computational genomics scientist experienced in clinical variant reporting and interpretation, bioinformatics analysis, pipeline development, and machine learning methods for genomic data. I’m currently a Research Associate in the Clinical Informatics and Development team, part of the Personalized OncoGenomics (POG) program. I hold a B.A. in Chemistry from Bryn Mawr College (Pennsylvania) and a Ph.D. in Genetics with double minors in Molecular Medicine and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona. Prior to computational work, I was broadly trained for 6+ years in various wet lab settings from organic synthetic chemistry, protein crystallography, to cell biology and virology. My PhD and postdoctoral research focused on developing statistical methods for inferring population history and natural selection from genomic data. More recently, I have been investigating tools for improving somatic variant calls from FFPE tumor samples. For more details on my present and past projects, see Projects.