I grew up in a small town in Western Massachusetts with my three siblings. I went to my local high school before heading off to Georgetown Univeristy where I am currently studying Computer Science. When I graduate, I am interested in working at a start-up where I can pursuing a career involving data analytics.
Georgetown University
2015 - 2019
BA in Computer Science
Longmeadow High School
Longmeadow, MA
2011 - 2015
Swiss Semester
Zermatt, Switzerland
September - December 2012
During the summer of 2018, I participated in the Data Intensive Scientific Computing REU at Notre Dame. I was placed in Dr. Michael Ferdig’s laboratory, which focuses on bioinformatics and malaria. I developed software in R to process malaria genomic data from a genetic cross (sequenced with Illumina Next Generation sequencing) and select genetically unique, clonal progeny with no missing data. I also developed an R software package to perform QTL analysis in a shared parent population (2 different crosses with one parent in common), based on the paper, Joint QTL Linkage Mapping for Multiple-Cross Mating Design Sharing One Common Parent . Using a shared parent population provides more phenotypic diversity and provides greater statistical power to detect genes with small effects.
During the summer of 2017, I participated in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Health Informatics at Indiana University to explore the ways technology can be utilized to improve healthcare. My project partner and I designed an "electronic toolkit," a set of customizable sensors that would assist and improve an elderly population in their day to day living. To learn about the needs of this elderly population we attended crafting session. Our goal was to make a toolkit that older adults could use different types of sensors to enhance the functionality of objects already in their home. I co-authored a manuscript, which we plan to submit to the Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions after conducting a user study with older adults at the end of this summer.
My first major research experience took place at the Penn Center for Women’s Behavioral Wellness under the guidance of Dr. Neill Epperson. The center’s research focused on the impact of various female hormones on women’s health. I assisted several research coordinators on their projects by recruiting and interviewing participants, obtaining informed consent, and performing data entry. Additionally, I pursued an independent research project reviewing protocols passed by the University of Pennsylvania IRB to investigate the inclusion of sex and gender as variables in the outcomes of clinical research studies. I authored a manuscript of the results which was published in Biology of Sex Differences .