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Enhancers are DNA regulatory elements that control cell-type specific gene expression and are crucial for organism development. Despite their importance, we do not have a good understanding of how this function is encoded into the enhancer DNA sequence. My research focuses on using machine learning, along with comparative genomics and genome evolution to learn the enhancer sequence code.

Currently

Cell and Systems Biology PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto - Moses Lab and Mitchell Lab

Projects

Phylogenetic augmentation

I developed a data augmentation technique for improving the performance of supervised deep learning models trained on genomic sequences using homologous sequences from multi-species genome alignments.

Code: GitHub

Journal Article: Bioinformatics

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science, Bioinformatics Option, Honours, Cooperative Program from the University of Waterloo

Fundamentals of Biomedical Science I Certificate, University of Toronto

Data Science Certificate, University of Guelph

Publications

• Google Scholar
• GitHub