Professional Organizations and Positions

2022–present Models, Inference, and Algorithms (MIA) Steering Committee

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard's MIA is a prestigious talk and workshop series that supports learning and collaboration across the interface of biology and medicine with mathematics, statistics, machine learning, and computer science Learn more

2015–present Student of Vision Abie Award Judge and Co-creator

International award honors students committed to creating a future where the people who envision and build technology mirror the people and societies for which they build. Winners receive a $7000 prize and the chance to go to Grace Hopper Learn more

2004–present D-Day Ambassador to France

Selected to represent U.S. for D-Day Commemoration, and to return every 4 years until the 100th anniversary of World War II. International School of Indiana.

2018–2020 Fulbright Board of Directors

Young professional board member. Fulbright Assoc. Learn more Profile

2018 Science Writer

Wrote two articles on scientific advances targeted at advanced high school students. Infobase Learning, Science News Today.

2017–2018 Princeton Citizen Scientists member

Helped grow a group of scientists interested in policy, mobilizing at Princeton and beyond to advocate for science. Princeton University.

2016–2018 International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Symposium Finance Chair

Led a team to build new strategies bringing four new and important sponsors. We gave >20 scholarships to support international and domestic travel to the conference. ISCB

2015–2017 AnitaB.org Board of Trustees

Student board member in program and strategies committees. Focused efforts to build the Student of Vision Awards (an Abie Award), BRAID, Top Companies, and ABI.local. AnitaB.org, see Board Emeritus Learn more

February 2015 US-EU-NATO Affairs Delegate

Fulbright grantee to engage in EU Seminar in international diplomacy. Fulbright and EU Commission.

2008–2011 Venture Crew President (2010). Vice President in 2009

Venture Crew 1121. Boy Scouts of America.

Current Professional Memberships

ISCB, ISBA, IEEE, AAAS, ACS, SIAM member, made Chemistry Day Workshop ('10), ushered IEEE Computing Workshop ('13)

DePauw University Organizations and Positions

2014 Mortar Board Vice President

Helped establish structure for new society focused on achievement in scholarship, leadership, and service. DePauw University.

2011–2014 DePauw Organic Farm Co-founder

Founded and built business plan for ∼2-acre farm, where 25% of produce is given to local Greencastle Indiana food pantries. DePauw University Learn more

2011–2013 Robotics Club Co-founder & Vice President

Students are provided with free tools to make whatever they wish. We visit local schools for outreach days. DePauw University. Mostly Arduino and 3D printing.

January 2011 DePauw Environmental Policy Program

Testified scientific bills, Indiana Statehouse, created website. DePauw University Learn more

2010–2014 University Athletics

Soccer (2010-2012) and Track (2013-2014). DePauw University.

Academic Service and Memberships

Teaching Experience

Spring 2021 Applied Math 2080, Inference in Genomics and Molecular Biology

Graduate and undergraduate course Brown University. Assisted in course content creation for Fall 2021.

Spring 2019 Applied Math 0650, Statistical Inference II

Undergraduate course at Brown University. Lecture on causation and estimation calculations.

Summer 2013, 2014 Arduino Programming

Student workshop for Google's Computer Science Summer Institute. Created, recruited, implemented, and led Arduino workshop for more than 40 students at Google's Computer Science Summer Institute Learn more

2012–2014 Biology 325, Bioinformatics Teacher's Assistant

Undergraduate course at DePauw University. Devised laboratory sessions, homework, helped grade, and tutored students.

2011–2014 Tutor

Created personalized lesson plans to tutor students (10 overall) in classes in the departments of Chemistry, Computer Science, Biology, French and Spanish, at DePauw University.

Student Mentorship

2023

Angela Mastrianni, graduate student, 'AI-Enhanced Sensemaking: Exploring the Design of a Generative AI-Based Assistant to Support Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis'

Shadi Zabad, graduate student, 'Leveraging Genome-wide Complex Trait Association Signals to Inform Variant Prioritization in Rare Disease'

2021

Helen Xi, undergraduate student, 'Multi-omic Visualization of Interpretable Biological Neural Neworks'

Lee Ding, undergraduate student, 'Efficient Multi-Trait Learning with Biologically Annotated Neural Networks'

2020

Dominique Pablito, graduate student, 'Uncovering temporal sex-specific differences across multiple species'

Isaac Nathoo, undergraduate student, 'Regulation of alternate sex specific splicing by DNA binding protein CLAMP during early embryonic development determines transcriptome heterogeneity between sexes'

2019

Nathaniel Goodman, undergraduate student, 'TIMEOR: a web-based tool to uncover regulatory mechanisms from temporal and multi-omics data'

Service and Outreach

November 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award

Presented award to President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, NPR's Melissa Block, and Architect James S. Polshek with Fulbright Board of Directors. Fulbright Association Learn more

November 2019 Fulbright Talks host

Similar to TEDx. Fulbright Association Learn more

January 2019 Fulbright Prize to German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Presented award with Fulbright Board of Directors. Fulbright Association Learn more photo

October 2019 Advocating the "Value and Impact of the Fulbright Program"

With U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). Fulbright Association Learn more

June 2018 Raspberry Pi robotics outreach

Taught ∼20 students in Roanoke VA. They got to keep their Raspberry Pi. Virginia Tech Philosophy and Physical Computing Workshop Learn more

October 2016 Presented Top Companies award

Audience of ∼15,000. AnitaB.org Learn more

October 2013 IEEE High Performance Computing Conference (HPEC)

Served as usher and attended. IEEE.

2012–2014 STARS Computing Corps

Student-led regional outreach group to broaden participation in computing. DePauw University.

November 2012 National Chemistry Week High School Competition

Organized, and executed a video and essay competition for high school students to come to the Children's Museum of Indianapolis for a day of chemistry, fun and to view undergraduate institutions. American Chemical Society.

Summer 2010 Service Trip to Costa Rica

Created a septic tank for 'Estación de las tortugas', worked on pineapple plantation, and helped record nesting behavior of Leather Back and Green Sea Turtles hatchlings. Servicio en Las Américas Program, DePauw University.