Biography

I am a research scientist in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University working at the nexus of human genetics, computation, and statistics to discover and characterize disease associated genetic variation. Previously, I was a postdoctoral scholar working jointly with Jonathan Pritchard (Stanford, Genetics) and Alexis Battle (Johns Hopkins, Biomedical Engineering) on using gene regulatory networks to describe the etiology of complex traits. I completed a PhD in the Biostatistics department of the University of Michigan, where I was advised by Goncalo Abecasis. At Michigan, my contributions included analysis of somatic variation called from whole genomes generated by the NHLBI TOPMed consortium.