Education

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Expected May 2023 | GPA: 4.075

Master of Public Health in Epidemiology, Certificate in Applied Biostatistics and Data Science

Relevant Coursework

  • SQL
  • R
  • SAS
  • Categorical data analysis
  • Regression
  • Epidemiological methods

Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, June 2021 | GPA: 3.6
Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences, Cum Laude and with Departmental Honors

Relevant Coursework

  • Biotechnology
  • Molecular biology
  • Genetics
  • Developmental biology
  • Neuroscience

Awards and Scholarships

  • Columbia University Tow Doctoral Scholars Program
  • First place in IARPA’s Focus 2.0 COVID Forecasting Tournament
  • First place in Good Judgment’s U.S. ELection 2020 Torecasting Tournament
  • Full merit scholarship to Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College
  • Young Investigator Award in Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College

Experience

Biosecurity Fellow, Institute for Progress, remote, June 2022-Present

  • Writing a comprehensive policy report on making the built environment more pathogen-resistant, which has involved reading dozens of research articles and interviewing subject-matter experts

Superforecaster, Good Judgment Inc., remote, January 2021-Present

  • Provide hundreds of probabilistic forecasts on a wide array of subjects, with a focus on COVID and geopolitics

Biosciences Analyst, Metaculus, remote, March 2020-Present

  • Overseeing COVID and biosecurity forecasting/modeling work

Research Assistant, Bratu Lab, Hunter College, NY, NY, April 2017-July 2021

  • Examined the spatiotemporal requirements of trans-acting factors and their interactions during the mRNA transport process in Drosophila melanogaster oocytes