Experience

I earned my PhD in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins, under the supervision of my advisor, Dr. Michael Schatz. My work focused on algorithms for improving analysis of large genomic datasets, and on evaluating and improving representation in genomic data. I worked on three main projects while at Hopkins: Sapling, a learned index structure approach for speeding up suffix array queries, sketching and sampling approaches for fast and accurate long read classification , and on assembling unmapped reads to understand the variation present in South Asian genomes (pre-print expected May '25').

I defended my thesis, titled "Algorithms For Improving Accessibility and Representation in Large Genomic Studies" in April 2025.

Worked in the lab run by my advisor, Dr. Sorin Istrail. I completed a senior undergraduate honors thesis, titled "Approaches in Genomic Privacy". My thesis surveyed the current state of genomic privacy, reviewed potential solutions (both technical and non-technical), and included my projections for the future of the field. It can be found here .

Teaching Assistant for CS022 – Discrete Structures and Probability, taught by Dr. Caroline Klivans in Spring 2016, Spring 2017 and Spring 2018.

Teaching Assistant for CS101 – Theory of Computation (formerly CS051 – Models of Computation), taught by Dr. Anna Lysyanskaya in Fall 2016, and by Dr. John Savage in Fall 2017.

I designed course materials, assignments and midterm and final exams, graded student materials, held office hours and review sessions, for classes of up to 350 students. Over my five semester of being a teaching assistant, I helped teach over a thousand students in the department.

I worked with Dr. Michael Aupetit on KinVis, a visual analytic tool (built entirely in R and Shiny) for exploring kinship information in Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS). The paper can be found on Bioformatics .

Working with Dr. Michele Ceccarelli on integrative bioinformatics for Big Data analysis in Cancer Genomics (biomarker discovery and pathway analysis). Integrated multiple existing algorithms (VEGA, VEGA-WES, SAAS-CNV) to create a new method to analyze whole exome sequence (WES) datasets using both the Log R Ratios (LRR) and B Allele Frequencies. Done using R and the relevant packages.

Carried out research into eye-tracking software and hardware with Dr. Jim Jansen. Worked with eye-tracking technology, and conducted research into how visual primers draw attention and affect human behavior and decision making.Responsible for designing and carrying out an experiment to test the effectiveness of various forms of primers using eye-tracking technology.

I was on the Brown Space Engineering team, which was working on Brown University’s own nano-satellite (more on that here!).

Between 2017 and 2020, I was a writer and editor for Futhead and Futhead News. Futhead was the largest FIFA Ultimate Team community on the internet, averaging severl million monthly visitors. I also helped organize Futhead's weekly FIFA Ultimate Team Tournament, Tuesday Night Football, which sees professional players and celebrity guests battle it out for a grand prize. TNF averaged 2000-3000 viewers every stream during its 2020-2021 run.

From January to June 2017, I was a part time writer for SB Nation, where I served as an editor for FUTNation, a blog dedicated to the FIFA video game franchise, and a contributor to other soccer related blogs.