I am a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Quantitative Life Sciences (QLS) program at McGill University. I am currently an elected member of the Young Investigator Committee of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society. I completed my M.Sc. in the School of Computer Science at McGill University in 2022, supervised by Joelle Pineau and Brent Richards and was affiliated with Mila as well as the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital. I completed my B.Sc. in Computer Science and Biology at McGill University in 2020.

• My research has allowed me to contribute to publications published or accepted in peer-reviewed journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Genetics, Nature Metabolism, Lancet Haematology, American Journal of Human Genetics (AJHG), European Heart Journal (EHJ), Diabetes Care, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM), Communications Medicine, Communications Biology, and many more.
• My research has been supported by a Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral (CGS-D) Award (113,333 CAD), an FRQS Doctoral Training Fellowship (84,000 CAD), and a Lady Davis Institute / TD Bank Studentship (20,000 CAD).
• In addition to these major fellowships, I have been fortunate to receive 48 additional honors and awards, including international or institutional research fellowships, travel awards, publication awards, presentation awards, and competitions.
• In the past, I was the first Canadian intern at Hinge Health (now IPO’d raising $437.3M) and in 2021 was selected as a world finalist in the $500k USD XPrize Pandemic Response Challenge.

News

• [2025-08] First-author correspondence published in The New England Journal of Medicine: Semaglutide in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis!
• [2025-08] First-author correspondence published in The New England Journal of Medicine: Screening for Prostate Cancer with a Polygenic Risk Score!
• [2022-08] Honored to be invited as a panelist for the McGill Graduate Orientation Fellowship Sessions (8/19 FRQS and 8/20 FRQSC award session)!
• [2025-08] Honored for my work to be selected by the Laura Bassi Scholarship Advisory Board to be awarded publication support and editorial fee waivers!
• [2025-07] Honored to be selected as a fellow for the Longevity Biotech Fellowship for founders/researchers in longevity biotech!
• [2025-07] Honored to be invited to be interviewed by Fauzan Reza Maulana (Co-founder, CoffeeSpace) for his research on building a new Founder Networking app!
• [2025-07] Honored to give an invited talk at the 2025 Genomic Epidemiology Workshop organized by the Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica; Taiwan Epidemiology Association (TEA); and Taiwan Biobank in Taipei, Taiwan!
• [2025-07] Honored to be selected as one of four Finalists for the Trainee Research Award in Basic Science by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society!
• [2025-07] Honored for my abstract to be selected as a "Top-rated Trainee Abstract" for the ”My Research in a Nutshell: 3-Minute Blitz” by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society!
• [2025-06] Honored to be invited to be interviewed by Furaha Damien (Software Engineer, Microsoft Azure) for his study on understanding genomics research workflows!
• [2025-06] Honored to be invited to present at The Festival of Genomics & Biodata Boston 2025! (declined due to time conflict)
• [2025-05] Co-first author paper accepted at Lancet Haematology: Machine-learning models to predict iron recovery after blood donation: a model development and external validation study (paper)!
• [2025-05] Honored to be invited to be interviewed by Bennett McIntosh for his study: Data practices in genomics and social sciences!
• [2025-05] Presenting a poster at the McGill Human Genetics Research Day!
• [2025-05] Our correspondence paper accepted in Diabetes Care!
• [2025-05] Honored to win 1st prize for oral presentation and be invited to participate in a panel discussion with Mark Daly, Corinne Maurice, and Martin Pelletier at the Congrès québécois de recherche sur les MICI (CQRM) / Quebec Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Research Conference (QIRC)!
• [2025-05] Honored to be invited to give an Oral Presentation at The Advances in Social Genomics Conference (TAGC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with travel and accommodation provided by the National Institute of Aging, La Follette School for Public Affairs, and Initiative in Social Genomics!
• [2025-05] Honored to have my Post-Publication Review Navigating clues to success in academia awarded top 5 of all submissions in the Tremplin Post-Publication Review "Win and Publish" Competition and selected to be featured on the Tremplin Consortium website!
• [2025-05] New preprint of our work: Unravelling the molecular mechanisms causal to type 2 diabetes across global populations and disease-relevant tissues (paper)!
• [2025-04] Honored to help facilitate the McGill Initiative in Computational Medicine (MiCM) workshop Intro to R!
• [2025-04] New work: Inferring the history of admixed populations using backwards simulations and local ancestry tracts!
• [2025-04] Honored to be interviewed by Lab Giant!
• [2025-03] Honored to be invited by the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain to teach the workshop "Exploring causal relationships in genetics: Mendelian randomization"!
• [2025-02] Honored to give an Oral Presentation at the McGill Quantitative Life Sciences Research Day!
• [2025-01] Honored to be invited as a speaker and share my research with Arizona College Prep High School's STEAM National Honors Society!
• [2025-01] Co-author on paper accepted in Nature Genetics: Integrative proteogenomic analysis identifies COL6A3-derived endotrophin as a mediator of the effect of obesity on coronary artery disease (paper)!
• [2025-01] Honored to give an invited talk with Satoshi Yoshiji at the first-ever Montreal Genomics Meeting hosted by Guillaume Lettre (Website)!
• [2025-01] I am awarded a Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel (GREAT) Award!
• [2025-01] Honored to be selected to serve for a two-year term on the IGES Young Investigators Committee (YIC)!
• [2025-01] Honored to give an invited talk at National Taiwan University (Monthly Talks on Poly-omics & Precision Medicine)!
• [2024-12] Honored to be invited as a podcast host for the Quebec Pain Research Network (QPRN): Let's Talk About Pain podcast (podcast)!
• [2024-11] Co-author on paper accepted in Bioinformatics: MR Corge: sensitivity analysis of Mendelian randomization based on the core gene hypothesis for polygenic exposures (paper)!
• [2024-11] I am awarded a Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel (GREAT) Award!
• [2024-11] Honored to give an Oral Platform Talk at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)!
• [2024-11] Honored to give an Oral Platform Talk and have been selected as a Roger Williams Award Finalist at the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES)!
• [2024-10] New preprint of our work: Multi-ancestry proteome-phenome-wide Mendelian randomization offers a comprehensive protein-disease atlas and potential therapeutic targets (paper)!
• [2024-10] Honored to have won the Best Oral Presentation Award at the Cardiometabolic Health, Diabetes and Obesity Research Network (CMDO) Annual Symposium on Health Research and Artificial Intelligence!
• [2024-08] Honored to help facilitate the McGill Initiative in Computational Medicine (MiCM) workshop SomaLogic High-throughput Proteomics!
• [2024-07] Honored to give an invited talk at the Banff International Research Station!
• [2024-07] Honored to serve for a one-year term as Vice President Academic for the Quantitative Life Sciences Association!
• [2024-05] Honored to have won the Best Poster Presentation Award at the Healthy Brains Healthy Lives (HBHL) Symposium!
• [2024-03] Honored to be invited as a speaker and panelist at DAWSCON!
• [2024-03] Honored to be invited as a speaker for Vanier Science Week!
• [2024-02] Honored to be invited as a speaker and share my research with Mira Costa High School's Biotechnology program!
• [2023-11] I am awarded a Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel (GREAT) Award!
• [2023-11] Co-author on paper accepted in Communications Biology: HLA allele-calling using multi-ancestry whole-exome sequencing from the UK Biobank identifies 129 novel associations in 11 autoimmune diseases (paper)!
• [2023-10] I am awarded a Post Graduate Student Society (PGSS) Travel Award!
• [2023-09] Honored to have won the Trainee Poster Excellence Award at the 1st Canadian Symposium on Long COVID!

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• [2023-08] 3rd place award at the Quantitative Life Sciences PhD Program Three-Minute Thesis Competition!
• [2023-06] Co-author on paper accepted at Communications Medicine: Proteomic characterization of acute kidney injury in patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV2 infection (paper)!
• [2023-04] I am awarded a Doctoral Training Award ($105,000 CAD) from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)!
• [2023-04] 2nd place award at the Quantitative Life Sciences PhD Program Three-Minute Thesis Competition!
• [2023-03] First-author paper accepted at Scientific Reports: Circulating proteins to predict COVID-19 severity!
• [2023-03] I am awarded a Mitacs Globalink Research Award of $6,000 CAD!
• [2023-03] I am awarded a Graduate Mobility Award of $6,000 CAD!
• [2023-02] Co-author on paper accepted at Nature Metabolism: Proteome-wide Mendelian randomization implicates nephronectin as an actionable mediator of the effect of obesity on COVID-19 severity (paper)!
• [2023-02] Co-author on paper accepted at the International Journal of Epidemiology: Increasing serum iron levels and their role in the risk of infectious diseases: a Mendelian randomization approach (paper)!
• [2023-01] Our work is mentioned in the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (AABB) News Magazine (online magazine pdf)!
• [2023-01] Presented a poster at the McGill Quantitative Life Sciences Research Day!
• [2023-01] Co-author on new preprint on medRxiv: HLA allele-calling with whole-exome sequencing finds 129 novel associations in 11 autoimmune diseases: a multi-ancestry analysis in the UK Biobank (paper)!
• [2023-01] Co-author on paper accepted at Nature Genetics: Genomic atlas of the plasma metabolome prioritizes metabolites implicated in human diseases (paper)!
• [2023-01] I begin my second QLS PhD Rotation working with Dr. Alan Barkun at the McGill University Health Center and Montreal General Hospital!
• [2022-12] 2nd place award at the Quantitative Life Sciences PhD Program Three-Minute Thesis Competition!
• [2022-11] I am awarded a Graduate Excellence Award of $3,000 CAD!
• [2022-10] Presented a poster at the McGill School of Computer Science 50th Anniversary Celebration!
• [2022-09] I am starting my QLS PhD Rotation in the Decision Modeling Lab with Prof. Alton Russell!
• [2022-09] I am returning as a teaching assistant for COMP 202: Foundations of Programming at McGill University!
• [2022-09] I begin my PhD in Quantitative Life Sciences (QLS) at McGill University!
• [2022-09] I am awarded two Graduate Excellence Awards of $2,000 CAD and $3,000 CAD!
• [2022-08] Co-author on paper accepted at Clinical Proteomics: The dynamic changes and sex differences of 147 immune-related proteins during acute COVID-19 in 580 individuals (paper)!
• [2022-08] I am honored to be invited as a speaker to present at the Graduate Orientation Fellowship Sessions (FRQS Doctoral Awards) to incoming graduate students at McGill - slides, recording. (24 Aug)!
• [2022-06] I am awarded a Doctoral Training Award ($84,000 CAD) from the Fonds de recherche du Quebec – Sante (FRQS)!
• [2022-05] I begin my summer internship on the Computer Vision Science Team at Hinge Health!
• [2022-05] Graduated with an MSc in Computer Science at McGill University!
• [2022-03] I am selected as a mentor for the Undergraduate Poster Showcase hosted by the Office of Science Education at McGill!
• [2021-09] I get my first teaching experience as a teaching assistant for COMP 202: Foundations of Programming at McGill University!
• [2021-08] Abstract accepted for a poster presentation at the American Society of Human Genetics!
• [2021-08] I will be attending the Oxford Machine Learning Summer School (20-21 July; 9-20 Aug)!
• [2021-08] I am invited as a judge at the McMedHacks Hackathon (6-8 Aug)!
• [2021-07] I will be attending and presenting a poster at the CIFAR Deep Learning & Reinforcement Learning (DLRL) Summer School (26-31 Jul)!
• [2021-07] I will be volunteering at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (18-24 Jul)!
• [2021-06] I will be giving a talk at the Summer Reasoning and Learning Lab Mini Conference!
• [2021-06] I will be joining McMedHacks as a mentor to help teach medical image analysis and deep learning in Python!
• [2021-06] I will be attending the STAQ Quantum Ideas Summer School hosted by Duke University (7-11 Jun)!
• [2021-05] 1st place award at the 21st Annual McGill Biomedical Graduate Conference (AMBGC) for best poster presentation!
• [2021-05] I am awarded an LDI-TD Bank Studentship!
• [2021-03] Our team competing in the XPRIZE Pandemic Response challenge are selected as world finalists!
• [2021-01] Our paper Regularized Inverse Reinforcement Learning is accepted for Spotlight Presentation at ICLR 2021!
• [2020-09] I begin my MSc in Computer Science working with Brent Richards and Joelle Pineau!
• [2020-05] Graduated with a BSc in Computer Science and Biology at McGill University! (Spring 2020 Virtual Convocation - Science)

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