I am a fifth year PhD student at University of California Berkeley in the Computational Biology Graduate Group. I am advised by Rasmus Nielsen of the Departments of Integrative Biology and Statistics.

Broadly speaking, I am interested in combining computing and molecular evolution to gain new insights into the influences of the interplay between ecological and evolutionary processes. For my PhD, I am developing phylogenetic based methods to analyze ancient sedimentary DNA beyond occupancy.

I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in December 2018 with a degree in computer science and minors in bioengineering and chemistry. There I did research with Ipsita Banerjee (2016), Dennis Kostka (2018), and at the Advanced Data Management Technologies Laboratory supervised by Alexandros Labrinidis (2018-2019). I also participated in iGEM (2016-2017) as a student leader and then a student advisor the following year. Along with my academic work, I've held two internships with Bayer Crop Science as a Genotyping Development Scientist Intern (2018) and as a Data Engineering Intern (2019).

When I'm not working you can find me climbing, running, baking, or playing DnD. But probably not all at once.