I am a second-year PhD student at MIT EECS co-advised by Heng Li and Bonnie Berger. My research involves developing computational methods for processing and analyzing biological sequencing data, and I am currently working on read alignment (with Victoria Popic) and genome assembly. I have also worked on methods for somatic structural variation calling and ancient DNA analysis.

I was previously at UT Austin, where I majored in computer science, math, and English literature and received an MS in computational science (advised by Vagheesh Narasimhan). My other research experience also includes work in physical oceanography (with the UT Computational Research in Ice and Ocean Systems group) and in computational materials (through the UT Freshman Research Initiative).

For a more detailed description of my academic and work activity, see my CV.


Unrelated Facts About Me

  1. I spent the summer before my PhD studying and performing Shakespeare through the Winedale program. I was in productions of Hamlet (Ophelia), As You Like It (forest lord, page), Cymbeline (soothsayer, lady), and Julius Caesar (Lucius, plebeian).
  2. I like to play the oboe and piano and have played in the MIT Symphony Orchestra, the Broad Institute's chamber orchestra, the UT Engineering Chamber Orchestra, and the UT University Orchestra.
  3. I am also usually reading too many books at once.