Graduated MFS: Forensic Molecular Biology at George Washington University, by successfully defending my thesis titled "Analysis of Microhaplotypes using Massively Parallel Sequencing for Biogeographical ancestry prediction" by genotyping a global set of population samples using newly developed forensic assay of Microhaps, estimation of allele frequency, analysis of population genetics data. Techniques used: qPCR, PCR, MPS manual library preparation, library quantitation, Ion Chef and S5 system.