Bioinformatician (April 2020-present)
- Working under Dr. Joseph Buxbaum at the Seaver Autism Center
- Reassigned to studying genomics of COVID-19 in June 2020
- Collaborating with the Charles Bronfman Institute of Personalized Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics and the Mount Sinai Clinical Intelligence Center to design and implement studies to quantify COVID-19 genetics.
- Processing all Mount Sinai GWAS and WGS data, according to standards set by the COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative (COVID-19 HGI)
- Active member of COVID-19 HGI Mendelian Randomization Working group, which is systematically identifying phenotypes that may be causally associated with COVID-19.
Bioinformatician (April 2019-March 2020)
- Examined fundamental statistical assumptions underlying genomic structure, and how they may impact visible genomic signatures of psychiatric disease
- Working under Dr. Eli Stahl
Bioinformatician (November 2017-April 2019)
- Staff bioinformatician in the Pamela Sklar division of Psychiatric Genetics at Mount Sinai
- Supervised by Dr. Panos Roussos and Dr. Eli Stahl
- Harmonized, QC’d and helped distribute data generated within the CommonMind Consortium
- Genotyped, QC’d and imputed data for numerous studies for groups within the division
Bioinformatician (July 2016-November 2017)
- Worked in Dr. Pamela Sklar’s lab with graduate students and postdocs to link genetic and epigenetic elements to schizophrenia.
- Managing data used in the CommonMind Consortium
Computational Biology (May 2013-2016)
- Developed pipelines in C++ and perl to solidify the connection between gene expression and animal behavior among multiple species, under the guidance of Dr. Saurabh Sinha at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Co PIs for this interdisciplinary project include: Drs. Gene Robinson, Lisa Stubbs, Alison Bell, Jian Ma and Yoshi Oono.
- Earned Master’s degree in Dr. Sinha’s group.
Experimental Biology and Biophysics (December 2010-January 2013)
- Worked towards developing a high throughput system to identify and classify the earliest regulatory rules in mouse embryos using RNA fluorescence in situ hybridization under Dr. Sheng Zhong.
- Collaborated with Drs. Taekjip Ha and Rashid Bashir who provided invaluable contributions in microscopy and microfluidics respectively.
- Other projects involved chromatin immunoprecipitation and induced pluripotent stem cell reprogramming.
- In January 2013, Dr. Zhong relocated to the University of California at San-Diego.
Business Consulting (January 2013-present)
- Consultant for Illinois Business Consulting, a selective student driven consulting group that solves problems for large Fortune 500 companies and small businesses.
- Applied strong problem solving and interpersonal skills to international projects in the corporate world.