Education

PhD in Operations Research

2021 - Present
Georgia Institute of Technology

BS in Mathematical and Computational Biology

2017 - 2021
Harvey Mudd College w/ Distinction

Honors

Fellowships
Thomas J. Watson Fellowship (2022),
Ernst and Young HCC Scholar (2021-2022),
INFORMS Student Scholarship (2020),
Harvey Mudd Research Fellow (2020),
National Merit Scholarship (2017-2021)
Academic Honors
Departmental Honors in Computer Science (2021) ,
Harvey Mudd Dean's List (2018-2021),
College Swim Coaches Association Academic All-American Honorable Mention (2019-2020),
Southern California Interscholastic Athletic Conference All-Academic Team (2018-2020)

Experiences

Thomas J. Watson Fellow

August 2022 - Present
The Watson Foundation
  • Fellowship providing a year of funding for independent, purposeful exploration in an international context
  • Focus of year is in exploring alternative perspectives in health equity
  • Visiting with various international institutions working on healthcare equity.

Research Assistant

August 2021 - July 2022
Industrial and Systems Engineering @ Georgia Tech
  • Joint work with Professor Lauren Steimle of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Dr. Arthi Rao, of the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development
  • Assessed the efficacy of hospital community benefit spending at addressing community needs
  • Determined spending had not experienced a dramatic shift to address upstream social determinants of health
  • Identified community partnerships as key predictors of community benefit spending.

Visiting Student Researcher

May. 2020 - Present
Kalhor Lab @ Hopkins Biomedical Engineering
  • Work with Professor Reza Kalhor and Dr. Weixiang Fang
  • Stochastic modeling in the context of cell lineage reconstruction with hgRNA barcoding system.
  • Conceptualized and created a novel probabilistic model that will enable more faithful reconstruction of cellular divisions.
  • Model may enable fate-map perturbation, using a likelihood model to assign probabilities to given fate maps.

Research Fellow

March 2020 - May 2021
Smart-OR Consulting for Mavenlink
  • Consulting work with small operations research group founded by Professor Susan Martonosi.
  • Formulated and solved a highly constrained large scale human resource allocation problem.
  • Beat the existing industry standard and the resulting mixed integer problem created an optimal upper bound for heuristic performance.
  • Created a simulated annealing and particle swarm optimization based meta-heuristic.

Research Assistant

May 2018 - September 2018
ERGOT @ Johns Hopkins Surgery
  • Improving equity in liver allocation under Professor Sommer Gentry at the Epidemiology Research Group in Organ Transplantation at Johns Hopkins (now CSTAR at NYU Langone).
  • Modeled and simulated the impacts of revisions in Federal allocation policy.
  • Submitted Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network policy recommendation leveraging SRTR data
  • Used GIS to extract and display spatial data for web and journal publication

Software Development Engineering Intern

May 2019 - August 2019
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Designed and implemented global work-order metadata tracking service
  • Automated work-order metadata tracking and validation across all AWS Regions
  • Independently created and deployed robustly tested service in-spec and on time

Papers

Accepted Publications
Geographic disparities in liver supply/demand ratio within fixed-distance and fixed-population circles

Haugen CE, Ishaque T, Sapirstein A, Cauneac A, Segev DL, Gentry S.,American Journal of Transplantation, 2019 Jul;19(7):2044-2052.

Quantitative fate mapping: A general framework for analyzing progenitor state dynamics via retrospective lineage barcoding

Weixiang Fang, Claire M. Bell, Abel Sapirstein, Soichiro Asami, Kathleen Leeper, Donald J. Zack, Hongkai Ji, Reza Kalhor, Cell, 2022, Nov:185(24): 4604-4620.

Under Review

Skills & Proficiency

Languages
R,
Python (Numpy, Pandas, Keras, Pytorch),
C++,
Java,
Ruby
Mathematics
Integer and Linear Programming,
Discrete Optimization,
Bayesian Statistics
Development & Tools
Functional Programming,
Continuous Deployment,
Integration Testing,
Parallel Computing,
Cluster Computing,
Git / Github,
AWS ,
Docker,
Singularity,
Gurobi,
LaTeX