Hello! I'm a fourth-year PhD student in the Biostatistics Department. Prior to coming to UW, I studied math and religion at Bowdoin College, and then I spent two years working as a research assistant at Statistics Collaborative, a clinical trials consulting company in Washington, DC.

Broadly, I am interested in research related to clinical trials for infectious diseases. For my dissertation research, I'm currently working with Dr. Elizabeth Brown on a Bayesian joint longitudinal-survival model in calendar time that is motivated by a longitudinal cohort study of infants whose mothers had received a COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy. We hope this model will be useful for a variety of studies occurring during epidemics that necessitate a calendar time model.

I have also been a research assistant with Dr. Brown since September 2021. We have an ongoing project assessing the dapivirine vaginal ring for HIV prevention, and I have also worked on several projects related to household transmission of COVID-19. Last year, I collaborated with Dr. Holly Janes on study design for an HIV challenge trial in infant macaques in the effort to prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission. During my first year, I was a research assistant on a forensic genetics project supervised by Dr. Bruce Weir.

In my free time, I am an avid home cook, and I also enjoy running, hiking, and cross-country skiing.