Hi there! I'm a postdoctoral fellow in the Greenbaum Lab and the Balachandran Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where my research involves understanding the immunological response following personalized cancer vaccines, as well as more theoretical problems related to the evolution of transposable elements.
Prior to this, I completed my PhD in Applied Physics with Benjamin Good at Stanford University. My PhD research focused on quantifying the dynamics of bacterial recombinationāa form of horizontal gene transfer within the same speciesāin the human gut microbiome [1, 2, 3]. I also co-led a project showing that some gut bacteria have migrated with humans across the globe since prehistoric times [4].
Prior to graduate school, I studied physics, math and computer science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I had a lot of fun learning about the renormalization group [5] & biophysics [6, 7] under the guidance of Nigel Goldenfeld.