Academic Training
Academic Training
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology, Cambridge MA
Ph.D. in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics (09/2010 - 06/2015)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
MIT Neurometrix Presidential Graduate Fellowship (one per department)
Three-month medical clerkship at Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA with rotations through internal medicine, gastroenterology, neurology, and intensive care unit
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
S.B. in Biological Engineering, Minor in Mathematics (09/2006 - 06/2010)
S.B. in Management Science, Minor in Biology (09/2006 - 06/2010)
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
Graduate Researcher, George Church Lab (11/2010 - 05/2015)
Developed a functional metagenomics method to identify microbiome genes conferring fitness in the mammalian host
Constructed tools for human microbiome editing, probiotic strain engineering, and other clinical / industrial technologies using mobile genetic elements and CRISPR-Cas systems
Sequenced, assembled, and deposited genomes of 11 bacteriophages at NCBI
Co-authored patent & seven papers, in Nature Methods, Molecular Systems Biology, others
Selected as a Young Investigator Oral Presenter in the Genome Engineering symposium at the 2015 American Society for Microbiology annual meeting
MIT Biological Engineering, Cambridge MA
Research Assistant, Ram Sasisekharan Lab (09/2008 - 12/2009)
Generated database of protein structural information for molecular modeling tools
Conducted cell-based assays to assess candidate small molecules for anti-viral activity
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco CA
Research Extern, Cardiac Biomechanics Lab, Professor Elaine Tseng (01/2008 & 01/2009)
Constructed a finite element model of the aortic root based on measured material properties
Performed computational simulations to evaluate a cardiothoracic surgical procedure
Published results in the Journal of Heart Valve Disease
MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge MA
Research Assistant, Professor Ed Roberts (09/2007 - 05/2008)
Performed regression analysis of alumni entrepreneurship trends at MIT & Tsinghua University
Programmed macros to translate 10,000 survey responses from Chinese into English
Stanford Medical School, Stanford CA
Research Intern, Irv Weissman Lab (06/2005 - 06/2006)
Received internship opportunity via 2005 Center for Clinical Immunology at Stanford summer program (20 students per year)
Studied adult hematopoietic stem cell migration by gene expression and chemotaxis assays
Discovered inhibitory effect of ligand/receptor interaction
Select awards:
2005-2006 Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science & Technology Semifinalist
2006 Synopsys Silicon Valley Science & Engineering Fair Grand Prize in Biological Sciences
2006 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Finalist in Biochemistry