Career Journey

Apr 2024 — Present Boston, MA

Director, Bioinformatics Platform

Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core
  • Lead and manage bioinformatics products to keep genomic, transcriptomic, and omics analysis platforms reliable, efficient, and scalable.
  • Guide and mentor bioinformaticians, fostering collaboration and innovation.
  • Consult with researchers and external collaborators to align platforms with bioinformatics needs.
  • Oversee quality assurance and documentation to ensure analysis accuracy and reproducibility.
May 2021 — Feb 2024 Cambridge, MA

Director, Head of Computational Biology

NextRNA Therapeutics
  • Shaped company strategy for genomics data and sequencing assays as member of executive leadership.
  • Directed in-silico target discovery and validation, integrating NGS technologies with advanced visualizations.
  • Built an RNA structure and RNA–protein interaction AI engine using SHAPE-Seq and eCLIP-Seq data.
  • Managed cloud infrastructure to ensure reproducibility and scalability.
Sep 2020 — Apr 2021 Cambridge, MA

Principal Scientist, Computational Biology

Axcella Health
  • Led R&D pipelines and visualization platforms for multi-omics data.
  • Applied machine learning to understand population stratification in pre-clinical studies.
  • Built cloud bioinformatics infrastructure for reproducibility and scale.
Sep 2019 — Sep 2020 Cambridge, MA

Senior Computational Biologist

eGenesis Bio
  • Managed internal NGS teams using Oxford Nanopore and Illumina platforms.
  • Researched epigenetic marks to improve transgene expression with machine learning.
  • Built QA/QC genomic platforms and multi-omics pipelines.
Jun 2017 — Apr 2019 Boston, MA

Research Scientist

Harvard Chan School
  • Led bioinformatics for a cross-organ fibrosis collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim.
  • Developed scalable, reproducible platforms for NGS data (small RNA-seq, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, WGS).
May 2014 — Jun 2017 Boston, MA

Research Associate

Harvard Chan School
  • Built tools for NGS analysis (small RNA-seq, scRNA-seq, ChIP-seq, WGS) in bcbio-nextgen and Bioconductor.
  • Developed visualization and integration of multi-omics data.
Feb 2013 — Apr 2014 Barcelona, Spain

Post-doctoral Fellow

Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine
  • Identified de novo transcripts associated with inversions in the HapMap population.
  • Performed expression quantitative trait loci analyses of inversions.
Sep 2011 — Feb 2013 Barcelona, Spain

Post-doctoral Fellow

Institute of Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer
  • Characterized small RNAs in human sperm samples.