People

I'm lucky to have learned from so many nice people. Each of these individuals has influenced me as a scientist and person: feel free to ask for specific details on why all these folks are so great, e.g. if you're considering working with them!

Advisors

• Emma Pierson [2022-present]
• Catherine D'Ignazio [2021, MIT]
• Michael Carbin [2020-21, MIT]
• Anshul Kundaje [2017-18, Stanford]

Collaborators

• Ziad Obermeyer [2025-present]
• Smitha Milli [2025]
• Kenny Peng [2024-25]
• Pang Wei Koh [2023-24]
• Nikhil Garg [2022-24]
• Divya Shanmugam [2023-24]
• Shayne Longpre, Jinhao Lei [2021, Apple]
• Jason Zhao [2020, MIT]
• Avantika Lal [2020, NVIDIA Genomics]

Mentors

Before graduate school, I learned everything I knew from extremely generous students. Here are some of them:

• Harini Suresh [2021, MIT Data + Feminism Lab]
• Jonathan Frankle [2020-21, Carbin Lab at MIT CSAIL]
• Erika DeBenedictis [2018-19, Badran Lab at the Broad Institute]
• Peyton Greenside [2017, Kundaje Lab at Stanford]
• Alex Trevino & Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong [2016, Greenleaf Lab at Stanford]
• Remzi Celebi [2016, Dumontier Lab at Stanford]

Mentees

• Vatsal Baherwani [2025, now PhD at NYU]
• Qingpeng Kong [2025, MEng at Berkeley]
• Aditya Dawar [2025, undergraduate at Berkeley]