CV

Education

University of Chicago

Ph.D. Ecology and Evolution, August 2018

NIH Genetics and Regulation Training Grant
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

University of Texas at Austin

B.S. in Biology Honors, May 2012

Dean’s Honored Graduate
Certificate in Computational Science and Engineering

Skills

Computational

Languages (proficient): R, python
Languages (familiar): Stan, Java, c/c++, Mathematica

Statistical

Probability theory, Bayesian statistics, Stochastic processes

Teaching

Winter 2015. Teaching assistant. Theoretical Ecology, University of Chicago
Winter 2016. Teaching assistant. Fundamentals of Computational Biology: Models and Inference, University of Chicago

Research

Sunyaev lab (2018 - )

Novembre lab (Sept. 2012 - 2018)

Studied the response of deleterious variation in humans to demographic change using partial differential equations and analysis of exome sequence data.
Estimated the mutation rate in wolves using whole genome sequencing in a pedigree.
Developed general mathematical models for quantitative trait distributions.

Ellegren lab (NSF GROW fellow March 2017 - June 2017)

Methods to evaluate evidence for different mode of natural selection across bird genomes.

Kirkpatrick lab (2010 - 2012)

Analysis of long-rage linkage disequilibrium in human populations.
Wrote a program to simulate evolution with chromosome inversions.

Wilke Lab (2009 - 2010)

Temporal and spatial analysis of swarm diversity of the St. Louis encephalitis virus.