Resume

Employment

2025-present Achira Solving molecular dynamics, machine learning, and high performance computing problems.

2019-2025 insitro Software engineering at the interface of the lab and machine learning.

2018-2019 Various startups Consulting projects related to molecular dynamics simulation and lead optimization

2011-2014 San Diego Supercomputer Center Member of the Walker Molecular Dynamics Lab, developer for AMBER MD software

2013 Amgen Scholars Program FRET analysis of influenza and host protein interaction with Dr. Simpson Joseph.

2012-2013 Pfizer, Inc Cataloguing protein-ligand interactions into a searchable database for evaluating reliability of docked poses for potential drug molecules

2010-2011 Calit2 Programming the Scalable City experimental game project

2010 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Created mathematical model of ocean temperatures to predict coral reef bleaching location and severity

Education

Stanford University Class of 2019 Ph.D. Biophysics, Ron Dror Group

UC San Diego Class of 2014 B.S. Bioinformatics, Minor in Mathematics

Biochemistry, physical chemistry, molecular and cellular biology, organic chemistry, algorithms, statistics, bioinformatics, numerical analysis, linear algebra and more

Graduate-level computational chemistry, physical chemistry, and numerical methods

Computer Skills

Languages: C, Python, C++, CUDA, Bash, LaTeX, FORTRAN, Perl, Java, mySQL

Software: AMBER, Maestro, VMD, Gaussian, GAMESS, ADF, many others

Libraries: numpy, pandas, rdkit, PyTorch, netCDF, video4Linux, OpenMP, MPI, OpenCV

Teaching

2018 Computational Analysis of Biological Information Stanford Teaching Assistant

2016 Robot Programming Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institute Teaching Assistant

2015 Physical Biology of the Cell Stanford Teaching Assistant

2015 Cell Biology UC San Diego Teaching Assistant

2013 Bioinformatics Algorithms Coursera Coursera Community Teaching Assistant

2013 Metabolic Biochemistry UC San Diego Teaching Assistant

2012 Molecular Biology UC San Diego Teaching Assistant

Awards

Top 3 Posters, Stanford Bio-X Symposium 2018
Best Talk, Stanford Chem-H retreat 2018
NVIDIA Fellow 2017
NSF Graduate Research Fellow 2014
DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow (declined) 2014
Best Paper and Best Presentation, IEEE SE-CSE 2013
Amgen Scholar 2013
Calit2 Undergraduate Fellow
IEEExtreme Programming Competition
NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing