I'm a graduate student researcher currently pursuing my PhD in the Computational and Systems Biology Program at MIT. I work in Forest White's lab at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, where my thesis work aims to better understand how tumor cells survive and proliferate under anti-cancer targeted therapies. I use mass spectrometry-based phosphoproteomics and multivariate statistics, paired with conventional in vitro drug response experiments, to uncover tumor cell-intrinsic determinants of kinase inhibitor sensitivity, tolerance, and adaptation.

Prior to grad school, I was a first-gen undergraduate in my home state at the University of Connecticut (go huskies!) where I worked on cancer immunotherapy and bioinformatics projects under Pramod Srivastava and Sahar Al Seesi at UConn's Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center, and researched physiological signal processing with Ki Chon in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. I was a BESIP intern at NIH in 2016 where I used mass spectrometry to hunt for murine micropeptides in Mark Knepper's lab. Throughout my PhD I've been a teaching assistant and head grader for an undergraduate MIT course on mathematical modeling of biomolecular systems (20.320). In 2022 I paused my thesis work to join the computational biology group at BioNTech US where I used molecular tumor data to contribute to immuno-oncology efforts. I was awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship in 2016 and a graduate fellowship from the MIT Ludwig Center in 2021 and 2022.