People

I joined the Computer Science Department @ UMD as an Assistant Professor in July 2021, with affilitations in BEES, CBBG, and AMSC. My PhD (2020) is in Computer Science from UIUC, where I was fortunate to be advised by Tandy Warnow and Bill Gropp. I also trained at UCLA (as a postdoc with Sriram Sankararaman) and at UW-Madison (as an undergrad/postbac with Rasmus Birn).

I am lucky to work with these amazing people:

PhD Students

Advisor: Dr. Misha Kolmogorov

Advisor: Dr. Teresa Przytycka

Advisor: Dr. Cenk Sahinalp

Maddie Bonanno, BRIDGE REU 2023, visiting from Tulane University
John Bridgers, UMD Honors Student Spring 2023 - Spring 2024

Thesis: Improving the robustness of quartet-based species tree estimation methods to high levels of missing data
Next position: Post-bac at NCBI with Dr. Teresa Przytycka and Dr. Cenk Sahinalp
Junyan Dai, UMD Honors Student Spring 2023 - Spring 2024

Thesis: Constraints make parsimony problems for CRISPR/Cas9 lineage tracing easier and harder
Next position: PhD student in CS at the University of Maryland, College Park
Aditya Girish, BRIDGE REU 2022, visiting from Rutgers University

Next position: PhD student in Comp Bio at Cornell University
Lola Gonzalez Lebron, BRIDGE REU 2023, visiting from University of Dayton
Michael Suehle, UMD Honors Student Fall 2022

Thesis: Fast branch length estimation under the multi-species coalescent model using triplets
Next position: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory & MS student in CS at UMD