Research Technician at the Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (Kaplan Lab). MS in Computer Science from Tufts University (machine learning, computer vision, and computational biology), BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Lewis & Clark College.
I started my work in the wet lab (primarily cell line development for fish, crusteceans, and avians), but I've transitioned into computational biology and bioinformatics. Now I build pipelines and tools to support the lab's computational research. I also founded our lab's GitHub organization to centralize our computational projects. I now lead the lab's work at the intersection of cellular agriculture and AI, and I maintain and drive the ongoing development of CAAIL, the Cellular Agriculture AI Library (browse it) — a curated, open catalogue of papers, datasets, software, and databases at that intersection.
Currently working on:
- Adapting nf-core/funcscan for plant biosynthetic gene cluster and antimicrobial peptide screening, and looking to contribute plant-relevant modules back to nf-core
- Supporting lab projects with nf-core pipelines (rnaseq, fetchngs, differentialabundance, sarek, proteinfold) and exploring proteindesign and proteindj
Side projects:
- World Climbing Fantasy: fantasy league for competitive climbing
- survivor-fantasy: Survivor fantasy league webapp (Flask, Docker, Tailscale)




