I am a Research Associate in the Park Lab at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and an Associated Researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where I’m involved in the analysis of data from The Cancer Genome Atlas project. Before coming to Boston, I earned a PhD from the University of Cambridge and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). My PhD advisor was Alvis Brazma.

High-throughput technologies to collect global measurements of biological systems have taken a prominent place in biological research and new data analysis approaches are needed to identify meaningful patterns in the massive amounts of data that are being collected.

The goal of my research is the development of bioinformatics approaches building on information visualization, machine learning, and information retrieval techniques that enable biologists to efficiently gain insight and derive knowledge from such large-scale data sets.

I am a General Chair of BioVis 2011, the 1st IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization, and co-founder of VIZBI, the annual Workshop on Visualizing Biological Data. In the past, I served in various leadership roles in the ISCB Student Council of the International Society for Computational Biology and on the Board of Directors of the ISCB.

Have a look at my CV for more information about my background and experience or check out my research pages and publication list.