I’m currently a fourth (time flies!) year PhD student in the Committee on Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology at The University of Chicago, studying population genetics. I am fascinated by the biological variation present around us, and am interested in using novel computational and statistical techniques to understand the forces shaping this variation.
Outside of school, I enjoy meeting new people and making them laugh. I also enjoy the process of writing under the influence of caffeine, I find it to be quite a sublime experience.
Previously, I received my Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computational Science from the University of Wyoming in 2017, where I worked on parallelizing computer vision algorithms for NVIDIA GPUs. Right after, I joined the Buerkle lab to pursue my Master’s in Botany, where I worked on extending a genotype and ancestry estimation model for mixed-ploidy species using genotype-likelihoods.