College of Arts and Sciences,
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (primary),
Department of Computational Biology (joint)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Member, Englander Institute for Precision Medicine (EIPM),
Member, The Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease,
Weill-Cornell Medicine, NYC, NY

Graduate field membership:
Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology (BMCB),
Biomedical Engineering (BME),
Computational Biology (CB),
Genetics, Genomics and Development (GGD).

I am an assistant professor at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics in the College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, and a member of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine (EIPM) and The Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Weill-Cornell Medicine. My research focus is on decoding heterogeneity and evolution of states in health and disease across scales from cells to systems. I completed my PhD at Carnegie Mellon University with Russell Schwartz. My dissertation focused on developing computational methods for resolving heterogeneity in high-throughput data from tumors, detecting progression markers, and using these markers for phylogenetic inference. My postdoctoral training was completed at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. At Cornell, I am interested in using high-throughput molecular datasets, computation and experiments towards understanding the fundamental biology of cells states and their applications in precision medicine.

Contact: as3894@cornell.edu