I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University. My studies are supported by the Bioinformatics Training Grant. With my advisor Rafael Irizarry, I am working on methods for microarray data analysis. My early work focused on using spike-in experiments to make cross-platform comparisons. I now work primarily on obtaining useful information from a single microarray hybridization through fRMA and the gene expression barcode.

I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I went to college at the University of Michigan and graduated with a B.S. in Statistics. Before becoming a student at Hopkins, I received a Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) to work for a year at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. While there, I worked on diagnostic tools for microarray quality control.