Education

University of Florida
2018-2022 PhD in Microbiology

Tulane University
2013-2017
BS in Cellular & Molecular Biology and Computer Science; Minor in Chemistry

Research Experience

Washington University in St. Louis

Mentor: Dr. Gautam Dantas

• Leveraging long read sequencing approaches to interrogate the phylogenomics and mobilome of multidrug resistant organisms in patients and community-dwellers in Pakistan

University of Florida

2018-2022
Mentor: Dr. Tony Romeo, PhD

• Examining Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Acid Stress Survival in E. coli

Tulane University

2015-2017
Mentor: Dr. Ramgopal Mettu, PhD

• Constructed a robust and generic machine learning pipeline to predict post translational modification sites of proteins via class imbalance methods
  Post transcriptional Modification Prediction

2015-2016
Mentor: Dr. Chastain Anderson, PhD

• Mined comments about E-Cig flavors and used machine learning based methods to analyze the sentiment of the comments to determine the popularity of flavors which pose health risks when consumed inappropriately
  Sentiment Analysis of E. Cig flavors and possible health implications

2014-2017
Mentor: Dr. Janarthanan Jayawickramarajah, PhD

• Member of a team working on micro RNA activated delivery system.
  • Trained in DNA origami design, Cell culture, HPLC, and UV-Spec

Fellowships & Awards

• T32 DK077653 Pediatric Gastroenterology Research Training Program
• University of Florida Graduate School Preeminence Fellowship