I work at the intersection of machine learning + computational genomics + sensory neurobiology. I presently focus on molecular mechanisms in sensory neurons, working on their transcriptional and translational regulatory programs, and whether they are conserved between mammalian model systems and humans. I work as part of the multidisciplinary Pain Neurobiology Research Group leading computational neurogenomics projects, and work closely with Theodore Price. I also work closely with Gregory Dussor, and Patrick Dougherty.

I am a computer scientist by training, specializing in machine learning. I trained as a Ph.D. student at the Language Technologies Institute, part of the School of Computer Science, in Carnegie Mellon. I was advised by Eric Xing (leading the SAILING Lab) and Veronica Hinman (leading the Hinman Lab). I worked on machine learning models of computational regulatory genomics, with applications to Drosophilae and Echinodermata.