Working on-site at the CDC in the Viral Vaccine Preventable Disease Branch• Built and deployed production-level NGS data analysis workflows for nationwide surveillance of measles and mumps. Extensive use of Snakemake, Nextflow, Python, Linux, and HPC systems.• Created cloud-based ETL pipeline and SQL database with Azure and Databricks to rapidly assess proficiency of >100 molecular laboratories worldwide. Features real-time data ingestion and processing.• Developed R Shiny dashboard to aggregate and visualize a global measles sequence database. Created interactive timeline charts, geographic map plots, and phylogenetic trees using popular Javascript libraries (e.g. D3, Highcharts).• Collaborated with microbiologists to optimize tiling amplicon enrichment assay, enabling high coverage depth even for high-Ct samples in non-coding regions.• Communicated methods & results in multiple peer-reviewed publications, and at multiple global network conferences.

• Designed and implemented single-molecule FRET microscopy assay to observe kinetics of short DNA duplexes subject to weak tensile force. Highly experienced with image and signal processing methods.• Performed molecular dynamics simulations on high-performance cluster (HPC). Used advanced statistical sampling methods to observe energy landscape of rare transition states. Extensive use of Python data science libraries.• 5 years of wet lab experience performing DNA/RNA-based protocols.

o Evaluated exams, labs, and homework with course instructors weekly to improve student outcomeso Mentored students one-on-one during laboratory sections and office hours

o Calibrated advanced mass sensor instruments used in ongoing research during an 8-week summer programo Independently learned to operate and extract data from a laser Doppler vibrometer o Presented results to a scientific audience in a public talk

o Explored using nuclear magnetic resonance methods to measure the water content in drought-stricken aspens in a 10-week summer program.o Presented novel methods and results in both a written report and poster presentation