Hello! I am a research associate at Harvard Medical School in Biomedical Informatics, currently working with the Zitnik Lab. In Autumn 2024, I will be starting a PhD in the Stanford Computer Science department, working on building multimodal foundation models for structured scientific data.

Bio

I obtained my Bachelor’s of Science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) in May 2022 with majors in computer science and mathematics and a minor in statistics. During my time at UTK, I was fortunate to work with several great teams, including the Strickland Lab, the Maroulas Lab, the Vogiatzis Lab, and the Emrich Lab. I am a recipient of the 2021 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, and I was selected to present at the 2022 Posters on the Hill. Additionally, I am an alumnus of the Summer Institute of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School.

My research experience spans AI for science applications, from drug discovery to materials science to epidemiology. In addition to UTK and HMS, I have worked with academic collaborators at MIT, UNC Chapel Hill, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory as well as industrial collaborators at Eastman Chemical Company.

Research Interests

I am interested on building powerful and practical AI for scientific applications. First, my interests are in studying and enabling emergent properties in AI systems for scientific applications. This work involves training general foundation models that can perform task and data transfer across domains and under distribution shifts. Second, I want to build AI systems that can practically interact with scientists, increasing transparency and interpretability of complex reasoning systems used by AI systems to present new hypotheses. I strive to tackle the most challenging problems through the application of my work, including in biomedicine, such as drug discovery and personalized medicine, as well as in sustainability and climate science, such as climate forecasting and advanced materials development.