I am an Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Dept. of Genetics and the Dept. of Computer Science since Sept 2013.
My research focus is the development of machine learning and computational frameworks to learn integrative models of transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene regulation from massive amounts of diverse sequence, genetic and functional genomic datasets.
From 2003-2008, I was a PhD student in Christina Leslie's lab in the Computer Science Dept. at Columbia University in New York. I developed Machine Learning methods for modeling transcriptional gene regulation in yeast and worm.
From 2008 - 2012, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Serafim Batzoglou and Arend Sidow in the Computer Science Dept. at Stanford University. I served as one of the lead data coordinators and computational analysts for the ENCODE consortium. My primary focus was on deciphering heterogeneity of regulatory interactions in the human genome. I also developed ENCODE's ChIP-seq statistical data analysis pipeline.
Before returning to Stanford as a faculty member in 2013, I was a Research Scientist in Manolis Kellis' lab (2012-2013) studying epigenomic and chromatin state dynamics across organisms, cell-types and was one of the lead computational analysts of The Roadmap Epigenomics Project.