Education:
B.S., Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine – 2014
Ph.D., Bioengineering, CalTech – 2021
HHMI fellow of the Jane Coffin Childs Fund, Institute for Protein Design – current
Awards:
HHMI fellow of the Jane Coffin Childs Fund 2021
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow 2015
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 2014-2017
The Edwards Lifesciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program (E-SURP) 2013-2014
The Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) 2012-2013
Mentors (a.k.a awesome people):
Elliot Hui, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering @ UC Irvine
Chang Liu, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering @ UC Irvine
Mikhail Shapiro, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Caltech
Siavash Ahrar, Biomedical Engineering Ph.D
Kamran Ali, Biomedical Engineering Ph.D Candidate @ UC Irvine
What am I up to??
I am currently a fellow at the Institute for Protein Design working on developing AI-based tools to design proteins that solve problems in medicine, sustainability and beyond!