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Department of Biological Engineering, MIT • 77 Massachusetts Ave. 16-463 • Cambridge, MA 02139
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August 2011

I am a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT. I moved to Boston in January 2008 after having earned my PhD from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (emphasis in Control Theory) at UCSB. Despite having pursued degrees in engineering, I have always been fascinated with medicine and biology. My career objective is to employ dynamical systems and control theory strategies to address modern challenges in medicine and biology. I will continue conducting research in this multi-discplinary field as I transition to begin my Assistant Professorship at Northwestern University.

Postdoctoral Research: I work with Prof. Douglas A. Lauffenburger at MIT and collaborate closely with Prof. J. Christopher Love (Chemical Engineering, MIT) and previously with Dr. W. Michael Korn (Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF). My work with the Love Lab involves computational and statistical analysis of individual immune cell regulation, function, and differentiation upon antigenic stimulation. My work with the Korn Lab involved dynamical systems modeling of interactions between virus and host cells to improve combinatorial effects of oncolytic adenovirus cancer therapy.

Academic History

MS/PhD (November 2007). Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara. Thesis advisor: Prof. Francis J. Doyle III.

BS (June 2002). Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara.  
Major in Control Theory; minor in Signal Processing.

Teaching History

I worked closely with Professors Ernest Fraenkel and Forest White to refine and instruct an MIT undergraduate course titled "Analysis of Biomolecular and Cellular Systems" during Fall semesters of 2008, 2009, and 2010.