Research

I am a PhD student in the Computational Biology track in the Molecular Genetics department at the University of Toronto, working with Kieran Campbell on building new machine learning tools for cancer genomics data. My current work focuses on understanding immune escape in pancreatic cancer.

Some of my previous work has included:

• The analysis of imaging mass cytometry breast cancer data and benchmarking of different methods as part of the development of Astir, a cell identity assignment algorithm developed for single cell proteomic approaches.
• An investigation of the MYC transcription factor network using genomic occupancy techniques as part of my work with the Eisenman lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
• A phylogenetic analysis of two ribosome associated genes, mutations in which can cause Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome. I completed this as part of my summer research fellowship at Quest University Canada under the supervision of Dr. Marina Tourlakis.