Education
Stanford University Class of 2019 Ph.D. Biophysics, Ron Dror Group
UC San Diego Class of 2014 B.S. Bioinformatics, Minor in Mathematics
Biochemistry, physical chemistry, molecular and cellular biology, organic chemistry, algorithms, statistics, bioinformatics, numerical analysis, linear algebra and more
Graduate-level computational chemistry, physical chemistry, and numerical methods
Computer Skills
Languages: C, Python, C++, Bash, LaTeX, FORTRAN, Perl, Java, mySQL
Software: AMBER, Maestro, VMD, Gaussian, GAMESS, ADF, many others
Libraries: netCDF, video4Linux, OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, PyTorch, OpenCV
Employment
2019-present insitro Research Engineer
2018-2019 Various startups Consulting projects related to molecular dynamics simulation and lead optimization
2011-2014 San Diego Supercomputer Center Member of the Walker Molecular Dynamics Lab, developer for AMBER MD software
2013 Amgen Scholars Program Worked with Dr. Simpson Joseph to perform FRET analysis of influenza and host protein interaction
2012-2013 Pfizer, Inc Cataloged protein-ligand interactions into searchable database for evaluating reliability of docked poses for potential drug molecules
2010-2011 Calit2 Programmer for Scalable City experimental game project
2010 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Created mathematical model of ocean temperatures to predict coral reef bleaching location and severity
Teaching
2018 Computational Analysis of Biological Information Stanford Teaching Assistant
2016 Robot Programming Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institute Teaching Assistant
2015 Physical Biology of the Cell Stanford Teaching Assistant
2015 Cell Biology UC San Diego Teaching Assistant
2013 Bioinformatics Algorithms Coursera Coursera Community Teaching Assistant
2013 Metabolic Biochemistry UC San Diego Teaching Assistant
2012 Molecular Biology UC San Diego Teaching Assistant
Awards
- Top 3 Posters, Stanford Bio-X Symposium 2018
- Best Talk, Stanford Chem-H retreat 2018
- NVIDIA Fellow 2017
- NSF Graduate Research Fellow 2014
- DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow (declined) 2014
- Best Paper and Best Presentation, IEEE SE-CSE 2013
- Amgen Scholar 2013
- Calit2 Undergraduate Fellow
- IEEExtreme Programming Competition
- NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing