About Me
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Kevin Wang's lab at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (University Health Network). My research focuses on developing multimodal computational approaches to study brain cancers—uncovering how tumors hijack neurodevelopmental programs, characterizing regulatory networks, and identifying novel biomarkers.
I completed my PhD in Cell & Systems Biology at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Dr. Alan Moses and Dr. Jennifer Mitchell. My doctoral work leveraged large-scale machine learning to model the cis-regulatory code. To overcome biological data sparsity and interpret complex genomic sequences, I developed domain-specific data augmentation strategies, model interpretability frameworks, and generative sequence models.
Prior to graduate school, I spent over three years as a software developer at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), building scalable pipelines and full-stack genomic infrastructure. I hold an Honours B.CS. in Bioinformatics from the University of Waterloo.
Research Interests
- Deep learning for genomics and transcriptomics
- Generative models for biological sequence design
- Interpretable machine learning for biological discovery
- Scalable bioinformatic pipelines and software engineering