I am a Ph.D. candidate in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology (GBCB) at Virginia Tech. My research focuses on using artificial intelligence and computational tools to solve complex problems in genomics, plant biology, and microbiome analysis.
Ph.D. in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, 2026 (expected)
B.S. in Statistics, 05/2022
Minor in Math
Awards & Honors
Translational Plant Sciences Symposium, Virginia Tech, 2023
Award: 1st place for best speaker ($500)
Plant Cell Atlas (PCA) Symposium, 2022
Award: 2nd place for best abstract talk ($100)
Whitfield Cobb Award for Academic Achievement, 2022
Grants & Sponsored research
Graduate and Professional Student Senate Travel Fund Program (TFP) Awards, Summer 2025
Amount: $300
NSF Undergraduate Research Program, Solving Problems with Big Data Science Problems, 2022
Amount: $7,000
Ray A. Gaskins and I.J. Good Scholarship, 2021
Amount: $5,000
Session: Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology, University of Southern Maine
I gave a talk about benchmarking gene-gene correlation metrics and imputation methods in single-cell transcriptomics. I am excited to share this work and connect with the community at the Gordon Research Conference this summer.
Jun 23-26, 2025
Last week, our lab hosted the Plant Single-Cell Analysis Workshop at Virginia Tech. I was happy to organize this event and see it come together successfully
Society of Actuaries. Probability (P) Exam. ID: 70580. Date: 2021
Society of Actuaries. Statistics for Risk Modeling (SRM) Exam. ID: 50077. Date: 2022
OSHA 10 Hour General Industry Outreach. ID: 26-707350881
Frontiers in Plant Science
BMC Plant Biology
