I received my B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2016. As an undergraduate, I worked in the lab of Aaron Baker, investigating shear-stress mediated signal transduction in vascular remodeling of mesenchymal and endothelial cells. Following graduation, I worked as a research and development scientist for Asuragen in Austin, Texas. Here, I was part of a team developing and validating in vitro diagnostic sequencing assays and companion software tools to detect risk alleles for genetic disease and somatic mutations in cancer. As a member of the Lau Lab, I hope to apply machine learning and graph theoretic approaches to multimodal, single cell datasets to learn how cell identity and signaling contribute to disease. In my free time, I play ice hockey and golf, and enjoy all the live music in Nashville. Lai Sulin Scholarship in Cancer Research and Dean’s Award for Exceptional Achievement recipient.