About
Hi! I bring a unique blend of expertise to the table with a solid foundation in data science, bioinformatics, and software engineering. I apply a multi-disciplinary and systems-level view across a spectrum of data + tools to advance domain knowledge. In problem-solving, I frequently leverage machine learning to learn representations of data and then utilize them in downstream tasks such as data integration, general modeling, and similarity comparisons. Engineering and building neat and reproducible software pipelines is an additional skill of mine that I can give + contribute to the teams I work with.
Personally I absolutely loved calculus, enjoy bike rides, am fascinated by art, love nature, and when time allows… I read on AI applications and trends over time.
Senior Bioinformatics Software Engineer
A bit on my education and background... I discovered a remarkable joint program between PSU and OHSU that enabled me to pursue both my undergraduate CS degree and Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine master's degree in just five years. Undertaking this endeavor required immense dedication and hard work, but what truly made it transformative was the profound shift in my perspective. I had the invaluable opportunity to immerse myself in the realms of both computer science and Bioinformatics (Biology/Molecular Biology , Chemistry, Statistics, Algorithms/Programming) simultaneously, gaining insights from both disciplines and experiencing the best of both worlds.
CV
Education
MS. Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biomedicine
2014 - 2016
Oregon Health and Science University - DMICE Division of Bioinformatics & Computational Biomedicine
BS. Computer Science
2013 - 2015
Portland State University - Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science
Personal Project
D3.JS Weather App
Professional Experience
Computational Biologist
Jan 2024 - Current
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute - Data Infrustructure Engineering @ Ellrott's Lab
Senior Research Software Engineer
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Genentech (Apex Systems) - Data Science and Statistical Computing team
Research Software Developer
Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
OHSU - Reactome
Bioinformatics Scientist
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
Phylos Bioscience - Data Science team
Research Associate
Mar 2017 - May 2018
Sage Bionetworks - Computational Oncology team
GSOC Mentorship
BIOINFORMATICS RESOURCE: DESCARTES + REACTOME PATHWAYS
Systematic pathway activity feature extraction from Descartes single-cell data.
BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES FEATURE EXTRACTION (ML)
Gene markers' pathway embedding of the Human Reactome pathway hierarchy graph.