Experience

Positions

1. 2026–

   Senior Staff AI/ML Research Scientist, Biohub

   Working on foundation models and ML methods for biological imaging
   
   Previous roles at Biohub/CZI:
   • Staff AI/ML Research Scientist (2024-2026)
   • Staff Software Engineer (Sep-Dec 2023)
   • Senior Software Engineer (2022-2023)
2. 2021–2022

   Senior Researcher, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

3. 2020–2021

   Group Leader, Image Data Analysis, Helmholtz Imaging Platform, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine

4. 2016–2021

   Assistant Professor, Virtual Technology and Design, University of Idaho

   During this position, I also held:
   • Computational Scientist Consultant, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI (2019-2020)
   • Machine Learning Scientist, DARPA/MTO & DARPA/I2O, ECS Federal (2018-2019)
   • Visiting Scientist, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI (2018-2019)
   • Visiting Faculty, Royal Veterinary College, London UK (Summer 2018)
   • Visiting Professor, Computer Science, University of Toulouse, France (Fall 2017)
   • Visiting Professor, Center for Systems Biology Dresden, MPI-CBG/MPI-PKS/TU Dresden (Summer 2017)
5. 2014–2016

   Postdoctoral Fellow, Bentley Group, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

   Additional roles during postdoc:
   • Machine Learning Lecturer, Computer Science, Tufts University (Spring 2016)
   • Visiting Scientist, Grigorieff Lab, HHMI, Janelia Farm (Summer 2014)
6. 2008–2014

   Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, DEMO Lab, Computer Science, Brandeis University

   During graduate studies:
   • Visiting Scholar, BINDS Lab, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2010-2012)
7. 2007–2008

   Instructor of Computer Science, Hampshire College

Education

1. 2014–2016

   Postdoctoral Fellow, Pathology, Harvard Medical School

2. 2010–2014

   PhD Computer Science, Brandeis University

   Supplemental PhD Specialization: Quantitative Biology
3. 2008–2010

   MA Computer Science, Brandeis University

4. 2003–2007

   BA, Hampshire College

Service and awards

1. 2025

   Member, Program Committee, Machine Learning in Structural Biology (MLSB)

2. 2020

   Associate Editor, Frontiers in Bioinformatics, Computational Bioimaging

3. 2020

   Member, Program Committee, Conference on Artificial Life (ALife 2020–2021)

4. 2019

   Panelist, National Institutes of Health

5. 2019

   Panelist, National Science Foundation

6. 2018

   Member, Program Committee for Evolutionary Machine Learning, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2018–2019)

7. 2017

   Panelist, National Science Foundation

8. 2016

   Mentor, ClojureBridge Boston (2016–2017)

9. 2015

   Selected speaker (Scientific Computing with Clojure), Clojure/Conj 2015

10. 2015

    Discussion Leader, Gordon Research Seminar on Angiogenesis

11. 2014

    HHMI Interfaces Scholar Award

12. 2014

    BMC Ecology Competition Winner for Best Image from Theoretical Model

13. 2012

    SIGEVO / ACM travel grant for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012)

14. 2011

    NSF travel grant for International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2011)

Reviewing

Nature Methods · Wellcome Open Research · JoVE · Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology · Artificial Life · Bioinformatics · Nature Communications · BMC Biotechnology · ACS Synthetic Biology · IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and Learning Systems · Theoretical Computer Science · Physics Letters A · Sensors · Neural Networks · BioSystems · Biotechniques · Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience · IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks · IEEE Trans. on Autonomous Mental Development · Optimization Letters · Emotion Review · IEEE-RAS Int'l Conf. on Humanoid Robotics · IEEE Int'l Joint Conf. on Neural Networks · IEEE Sym. Series on Computational Intelligence · Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference