Objective A computational biology position in a biotechnology or pharmaceutical company. Pasadena, CA Ph.D., Computation and Neural Systems. Broad coursework in molecular biology, neurobiology, combinatorics, probability, and computer science.
Research focuses on using stochastic processes to model biological systems such as gene regulation.
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1995-1998. Developed computer software and mathematical techniques for dealing with biological systems with a very small number of molecules. In addition to education and research responsibilities, acted as system administrator for a cluster of approximately 40 machines, running Linux, AIX, and Windows. Applied this to a model of the bacteriophage lambda. The techniques used allow one to calculate tight bounds on the uncertainty of the parameter estimates.