Curriculum Vitae

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Awards & Fellowships

May 2024 – May 2027
NSERC CGS-D Scholar

Awarded on academic merit and research excellence.

$118,333
May 2024 – May 2025
SRI Fellowship

Awarded on academic merit, proposed research, and community involvement.

$7,000
Sept 2023 – May 2024
OGS Scholar

Awarded on academic merit and research.

$15,000
April 2023
Young Entrepreneur Scholarship (YES)

Awarded for the Pocketchange startup (community-based loyalty app) MVP.

$10,000
Sept 2022 – May 2023
NSERC CGS-M Scholar

Awarded on academic merit and research.

$17,500

Education

2021 – present
PhD Candidate in Computer Science

University of Toronto

GPA: 4.0/4.0 · Focus: Machine Learning & Computational Biology · Moses and Wang labs

2017 – 2021
Honours BSc — Specialist in Bioinformatics, Major in Computer Science, Minor in Biology

University of Toronto

GPA: 3.91/4.0 · Last sessional: 4.0/4.0

Work Experience

June – Sept 2024
Microsoft Research Intern — ML for Biology & Healthcare

Microsoft Research New England

12-week internship investigating genome language models under the supervision of Alex Lu and Jimmy Hall.

Sept 2021 – present
Teaching Assistant

University of Toronto

Grading, tutorials, and assignment design for Introduction to Machine Learning, Deep Learning: Neural Networks, and PRISM workshops.

Aug 2019 – Aug 2021
Research Student

CAMH Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics

Studied the link between somatostatin-expressing neurons and Alzheimer's neuropathology.

Sept 2020 – May 2021
Part-Time Full Stack Developer

UHN Techna Institute

Continued development on the CReSCENT: CanceR Single Cell ExpressioN Toolkit project.

May 2019 – Aug 2020
Intern

Sick Kids Centre for Computational Medicine

Built a data portal for the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development study and contributed to CReSCENT using React, MongoDB, Docker, SQL, and GraphQL.

Relevant Coursework

Bioinformatics Project I A+
Bioinformatics Project II A+
Theory of Computation A+
Probability for CS A+
Intro to Machine Learning A+
Neural Networks & Deep Learning A+
Software Engineering A+
Trustworthy ML A+