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!