About me

I am a postdoctoral associate in the Yale Center for Systems and Engineering Immunology and the Department of Immunobiology at the Yale School of Medicine, working with Prof. John S. Tsang. I was previously a Yale-Boehringer Ingelheim Biomedical Data Science Fellow.

My research focuses on the systems biology of the immune response to inflammatory challenges (e.g., an infection) and on the establishment and maintenance of multi-scale immune set points in health and across immune disorders (including monogenic immune disorders and various autoimmunities). I am particularly interested in identifying the mechanisms that drive inter-individual heterogeneity in immune response to the same challenge. I use both top-down— statistics and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI / ML)— and bottom-up— physical and mathematical modeling— to address these questions. More recently, I have been working towards developing interpretable foundation models in systems immunology.

I graduated from the Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology PhD Program at Rice University in August 2022. During my PhD, I worked towards identifying certain general principles underlying cell-fate choice, with a focus on the emergence of cell-to-cell heterogeneity. I finished my PhD dissertation under the guidance of Prof. Herbert Levine. You can find my dissertation here.