Biography

I was born in Honolulu, Hawai’i and lived there for almost all of my life before college. I then moved to the frigid northeast and spent four years at Harvard, graduating with an AB in Chemical and Physical Biology. With the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, I received an MPhil in Biological Science in the Genetics Department at Cambridge, doing research at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the laboratory of Dr. Ines Barroso. I then joined the MDPhD program at Harvard Medical School through the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology track, and obtained my PhD in the Harvard Systems Biology program doing research in the laboratory of David Reich on computational population genetics focused on India and the Americas. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow with Rahul Satija at New York Genome Center and Eric Nestler at Mount Sinai while also in the NYU psychiatry research track residency. Outside of academics, I spend much of my time doing community service and athletics (tennis and long-distance running), as well as Christian fellowship activities.