CV

Education

University of California at San Francisco
Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics
2011-2018

University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
B.S. Electrical Engineering
Minor Bioengineering
2007-2011

Research Experience

Hana El-Samad and Matt Thomson Labs
2011-2018

Sheng Zhong Lab
2010-2011

Awards and Grants

James S McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
$200,000 of funding for Postdoctoral training
2018-2021

NSF Innovation-Corps
$50,000 of funding for business development
immersive 7-week course on business development
see reported project outcomes
2016

Mary Anne Koda-Dimble Seed Award for Innovation
$20,000 internal UC San Francisco grant
largest award of the funding cycle
proposed stratifying auto-immune patients with single cell RNA-seq
2016

Teaching

UCSF Teaching Assistant - Systems Lab Course, Prof. Joe DeRisi
Supervised graduate student teams sequencing DNA and RNA of yeast strains.
Fall 2012

Outreach

Mentor - international Genetically Engineered Machines competition
Taught programing, data analysis and modeling to high school team members.
Summers 2012, 2013

Volunteer - Science & Health Education Partnership
Led four science lessons for kindergarteners and 1 st graders.
2011

Research Talks

Media