I am a Scientific Lead at Harvard Medical School in Dr. Debora Marks’ Lab, where I lead the Predictive Modeling for Vaccine Design group. My research sits at the intersection of machine learning and biomedicine, with a focus on transforming the design and deployment of protein-based medicines. My research vision is to harness evolutionary and structural insights through machine learning to design safer, more effective, and future-proof protein therapeutics.

Prior to my current role, I completed my PhD at Dalhousie University under the joint supervision of Dr. Joseph Bielawski (Department of Biology and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics), and Dr. Edward Susko (Department of Mathematics and Statistics). My doctoral research focused on developing realistic models of molecular evolution and quantifying the impact of model misspecification on evolutionary inference, particularly in the detection of natural selection.