Experience

Director of Bioinformatics Platform — Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core (Apr 2024–present)

Boston, MA — bioinformatics.sph.harvard.edu

  • Lead and manage bioinformatics products to keep genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics analysis and visualization platforms reliable, efficient, and scalable.
  • Guide and mentor bioinformaticians, fostering collaboration and innovation.
  • Consult with researchers and external collaborators to align platforms with their bioinformatics needs and enable interdisciplinary projects.
  • Oversee quality assurance and documentation to ensure analysis accuracy and reproducibility across pipelines and workflows.

Director, Head of Computational Biology — NextRNA Therapeutics (May 2021–Feb 2024)

Cambridge, MA

  • Shaped company strategy for genomics data and sequencing assays as a member of the executive leadership team.
  • Acted as the key interface across Biology, Technology, and Drug Discovery teams.
  • Directed in-silico target discovery and validation, integrating NGS technologies with advanced visualizations.
  • Oversaw Illumina and Nanopore sequencing, managing internal FTEs and CRO partnerships.
  • 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.

Principal Scientist, Computational Biology — Axcella Health (Sep 2020–Apr 2021)

Cambridge, MA

  • 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.

Senior Computational Biologist — eGenesis Bio (Sep 2019–Sep 2020)

Cambridge, MA — egenesisbio.com

  • 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.
  • Managed computational cloud infrastructure.

Research Scientist — Harvard Chan School (Jun 2017–Apr 2019)

Boston, MA

  • Led bioinformatics for a cross-organ fibrosis collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim.
  • Developed scalable, reproducible computational platforms and tools for NGS data (small RNA-seq, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, WGS).
  • Integrated multi-omics visualization within the bcbio-nextgen framework.

Research Associate — Harvard Chan School (May 2014–Jun 2017)

Boston, MA

  • Built tools for NGS analysis (small RNA-seq, single-cell and bulk RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, WGS) in bcbio-nextgen and Bioconductor.
  • Developed visualization and integration of multi-omics data within bcbio-nextgen.

Post-doctoral Fellow — Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (Feb 2013–Apr 2014)

Barcelona, Spain

  • Identified de novo transcripts associated with inversions in the HapMap population.
  • Performed expression quantitative trait loci analyses of inversions in the HapMap population.

Post-doctoral Fellow — Institute of Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer (Sep 2011–Feb 2013)

Barcelona, Spain

  • Characterized small RNAs in human sperm samples.