I am a postdoc in the PejLab at Scripps Research and in the Palmer Lab at UC San Diego. I use computational approaches to study genomic regulatory variation. My current focus is on outbred rats, which are often used to study the genetic influences of behavior. I am using gene expression to better understand, and improve detection of, genetic associations with psychiatric traits.

I received my PhD in Quantitative and Computational Biology from Princeton University, advised by Mona Singh. My research involved amino acid substitution impact, cancer mutations in zinc finger domains, and linking gene expression with tissue images. As an undergraduate at the University of North Texas, I majored in Biology and conducted computational microbiome research with Qunfeng Dong.