I'm a computational plant biologist with a background in biochemistry. I earned my PhD at Michigan State University (MSU) co-advised by Drs. Bob VanBuren and Mohammad Ghassemi, where I worked on applying natural language processing techniques to answer biological questions in the plant science domain. I then was a postdoctoral researcher in the Walker Lab in the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory and the Farre Lab in the Department of Plant Biology, where I studied photorespiration and suppoerted lab members in implementing computational analyses. For more details on past projects, feel free to browse my repositories or view my website. I'm now an Associate Predictive Modeler at Auto-Owners Insurance.
I care about writing reproducible, well-documented code for data science applications, and am always looking for feedback on my code and documentation. If you're using code from one of my repositories and have any questions or feedback, please open an issue!
I love science communication, and have written a guest blog for MSU SciComm and have been interviewed for their podcast. I also enjoy giving talks on topics like applications of machine learning in plant biology and my own research.
As a graduate student, I was a founding member and president of QT-Grad, an organization for queer and trans graduate students at MSU, and helped found & run the peer mentorship program in my home department.
Fun fact: In my undergrad, I was a rock climbing instructor at the Lindseth Climbing Center, where I taught people how to top rope and lead climb!