Overview

Bioinformatician (April 2020-present)

Bioinformatician (April 2019-March 2020)

  • Examined fundamental statistical assumptions underlying genomic structure, and how they may impact visible genomic signatures of psychiatric disease
  • Working under Dr. Eli Stahl

Bioinformatician (November 2017-April 2019)

  • Staff bioinformatician in the Pamela Sklar division of Psychiatric Genetics at Mount Sinai
  • Supervised by Dr. Panos Roussos and Dr. Eli Stahl
  • Harmonized, QC’d and helped distribute data generated within the CommonMind Consortium
  • Genotyped, QC’d and imputed data for numerous studies for groups within the division

Bioinformatician (July 2016-November 2017)

Computational Biology (May 2013-2016) 

  • Developed pipelines in C++ and perl to solidify the connection between gene expression and animal behavior among multiple species, under the guidance of Dr. Saurabh Sinha at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • Co PIs for this interdisciplinary project include: Drs. Gene Robinson, Lisa Stubbs, Alison Bell, Jian Ma and Yoshi Oono.
  • Earned Master’s degree in Dr. Sinha’s group.

Experimental Biology and Biophysics (December 2010-January 2013)  

  • Worked towards developing a high throughput system to identify and classify the earliest regulatory rules in mouse embryos using RNA fluorescence in situ hybridization under Dr. Sheng Zhong.
  • Collaborated with Drs. Taekjip Ha and Rashid Bashir who provided invaluable contributions in microscopy and microfluidics respectively.
  • Other projects involved chromatin immunoprecipitation and induced pluripotent stem cell reprogramming.
  • In January 2013, Dr. Zhong relocated to the University of California at San-Diego.

Business Consulting (January 2013-present) 

  • Consultant for Illinois Business Consulting, a selective student driven consulting group that solves problems for large Fortune 500 companies and small businesses.
  • Applied strong problem solving and interpersonal skills to international projects in the corporate world.