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Aug 4, 2023 I received the “Best Oral Presentation” TransMed 2023 Award for my presentation at ISMB/ECCB 2023. Check out the CMU news article.
Jun 30, 2023 My ISMB/ECCB 2023 proceedings paper has been published in Bioinformatics. Check it out here!
Apr 11, 2023 My paper “Deriving spatial features from in situ proteomics imaging to enhance cancer survival analysis” has been accepted to the ISMB/ECCB 2023 proceedings!
Jan 9, 2023 I have been awarded an NIH Kirschstein-NRSA F31 award from the National Library of Medicine. This award will fund my stipend, tuition, technical supplies, and conference travel for the remainder of my PhD.
Dec 12, 2022 I successfully defended my thesis proposal on “Machine learning methods for the analysis and modeling of highly multiplexed spatial proteomic data” and officially became a PhD Candidate.
Aug 26, 2022 I was elected president of my PhD program’s Graduate Student Association (GSA) for the 2022-2023 academic year.
May 25, 2022 I attended RECOMB 2022 and presented a poster on my recently published method, RAMCES.
May 16, 2022 This summer I am doing a research internship with Enable Medicine, a startup whose goal is to build a search engine for biology. I am excited to work with them on problems in spatial biology.
Apr 23, 2022 I attended the 2022 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women, this time in person in New Orleans! It was great to meet fellow graduate students in my field. I would highly recommend anyone eligible to apply to go to this workshop.
Apr 14, 2022 My first PhD project is now published in Nature Communications! Check out our method for RAnking Markers for CEll Segmentation (RAMCES) here.
Apr 24, 2021 I attended the 2021 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women! I met many inspiring women leaders in computing. I gave a Tech Talk on my recent work on marker selection for cell segmentation of spatial proteomics data.
Aug 5, 2020 I have been chosen as a NIH T32 training grant recipient as part of the HHMI-NIBIB Interfaces Initiative.