Portfolio
Current Projects
- Building Tier 1 policy and compliance tools for Amazon Pharmacy.
- Raising an awesome kid.
- Building an enormous set of bookshelves for our cat. Ask me about that if your cat’s a reader.
Prior projects
- Improving scientific reproducibility and research automation in microbiome science
- Studying relationships between the gut microbiome and Alzheimer’s Disease in mice
- Learning Rust, web dev, and the Norwegian Language
- q2-diversity-lib
- get-git
Awards/Scholarships
- 2021 Graduate Student Government Travel Award
- 2021 Graduate Student Government Scholarship
- 2020 Urdea Collaborative Research Award:
“Ileum microbiota composition and inflammatory response in triple transgenic mice modeling Alzheimer’s disease” - 2019 Goldwater Scholar
- 2019 Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, US Senator Martha McSally
- 2019 VMWare Fellow Martin Casado Computer Science Scholarship
- 2019 Pheatt Family Research and Development Award
- 2019 Hooper Undergraduate Research Award:
“Relating Trade Conditions and Behavior of Currency Markets Using Technical Analysis” - 2018 NAU Office of Undergraduate Research Student Travel Award
Publications/Presentations
- Scientific Reproducibility and Research Automation with QIIME 2 Provenance Replay. Oral presentation at International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Rocky Conference, Aspen, CO. (2021)
- Experiences and lessons learned from two virtual, hands-on microbiome bioinformatics workshops
PLOS Computational Biology (2021) (Co-author) - Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
Nature Biotechnology (2019) (Co-author) - getGit: An Introduction to Version Control Using Git
Presented to NAU ACM (2019) (Lead Author/Presenter) - Developing a QIIME 2 plugin: a simple annotation for robust tools
Poster presented at the 3rd Workshop on Statistical and Algorithmic Challenges in Microbiome Data Analysis (SACMDA) (Lead Author/Presenter) - Enabling Reproducible Microbiome Science through Decentralized Provenance Tracking in QIIME 2
Poster presented at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC18) (2018) (Lead Author/Presenter)