University of Pittsburgh

Advisor: Dr. James Faeder

• Developing a mechanistic model of alphavirus replication in mammalian cells
• Using various modeling approaches to model Type I interferon induction in the host-cell and resulting immune cell recruitment
• Applying Bayesian estimation methods to parameterize mathematical models with temporal experimental data

Carnegie Mellon University

Advisor: Dr. Robert Murphy

• Assessed performance of a computational framework that automatically processes 3-D confocal fluorescent microscopy images of T cell costimulation into morphologically-standardized templates
• Extended and evaluated a separate computational framework that automatically infers spatio-dynamic relations between intracellular proteins during T cell costimulation from the standardized templates of the previous framework

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Advisor: Dr. Daniel Lobo

• Designed a mathematical framework to simulate tumor heterogeneity dynamics
• Developed a computational method to reverse-engineer sub-clonal dynamic models from experimental data as well as find optimal treatment targets
• Created a methodology to analyze and validate inferred models

Massachussetts Institute of Technology

Advisor: Dr. Douglas Lauffenberger

• Identified intercellular communication discrepancies between tumors with varying immunotherapeutic response
• Developed a computational pipeline to process and analyze single-cell RNA-seq data using various statistical learning techniques

University of Pittsburgh - Carnegie Mellon University

Major: Computational Biology

GPA: 3.81

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Major: Computational Biology

Minor: Computer Science

GPA: 3.92

Thomas S. Wootton High School

GPA: 3.90