PhD, MS University of California, Santa Cruz

• Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics

BS University of California, Davis

• Mathematical and Scientific Computation with an emphasis in Biology, Summa cum laude
• Minor in Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology

Postdoctoral

• Berkeley Lab SLAM Finalist 2018

Graduate

• Platinum Slug Service Award
• Outstanding TA Award
• ARCS Fellowship
• ACM-W Travel Award
• Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
• NIH Training Grant
• Regents Fellowship

Undergraduate

• Outstanding Student Award
• Highest Honors
• Departmental Citation, Mathematics
• Dean's List
• Barry Goldwater Scholarship
• University of California, Regents Fellowship

Professional Development Program

• 2013 - Discussion Guide Development Group, Special projects group to aid development of a facilitation guide for new PDP partner sites
• 2012 - Workshop Designer/Lead Instructor, Computational biology workshop for Molecular Biomechanics lab (BME150L)
• 2011 - Workshop Designer/Instructor, UCSC Workshop for Engineering and Science Transfer students (WEST)

Teaching Assistant (UC Santa Cruz)

• 2015 - BME128/L: Protein Engineering
• 2012 - BME150L: Molecular Biomechanics (Lead Lab Instructor)
• 2011 - BME150L: Molecular Biomechanics / BME220L: Protein Bioinformatics (Course Designer/Teaching Assistant)

Guest Lectures (UC Santa Cruz)

• 2011 - BME205 - Lecture on Covariance models and stochastic context-free grammars for RNA structure prediction
• 2011 - BME237 - Lecture on RNA Bioinformatics