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Cambridge, MA, US

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Project leader for extended custom secure, federated toolkit to polygenic risk scores, a valuable precision medicine tool

Helped design and implement secure, federated pipeline for genome wide association studies and protect the confidentiality of individual genotypes. Built user-friendly packages for matrix, vector operations for compatible with existing cryptographic frameworks: MHE (multiparty homomorphic encryption) and SMC. Curated biobank-scale dataset for scalability.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Mentored staff of nine Resident Advisors and guide their individual development in the role, while overseeing all aspects of event planning, organization, and implementation for our residential community. Designed and implemented models of ideal community living. Collaborated with other student leaders on campus to foster healthy standards of living.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Connected students to viable resources for individual growth, keeping residents up-to-date on activities and general campus-related news, and initiating strong programming that promotes a healthy lifestyle. Engaged residents in healthy decision making, cultural competency, and wellness activities conversations. Provided support to other Resident Advisors.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

(Langmead Lab) Developed data mining techniques for high-dimensional electronic health record data and better encoding systems for representing categorical data. Identified discrete categories for real-valued variables with feature selection and preprocessed the data and for clustering with radial domain folding.

New York, New York

Evaluated multiple methods for feature selection and dimensionality reduction, in context of performing exploratory analysis of metabolic datasets. Designed and implemented machine learning models in R to analyze high-dimensional. Identified clinically relevant cell signatures across various cancer datasets with regularized regression.