🌱 New Soil, Same Courageous Sprout 🌱

I wanted to share a bit of exciting news—this fall, I’ll be joining Virginia Commonwealth University as an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics. 🎉

I’ll be mostly teaching bioinformatics and continuing my research and collaboration efforts 🙏

My curiosity for bioinformatics first bloomed during my postdoc, when I found myself deep in single-cell RNA-seq. I remember puzzling over UMAP: how could something be “not wrong,” and also “not correct”? That question pulled me into the math, the statistics, the structure beneath the surface. I’m still learning—and that, to me, is the best part of this journey .

I hope this new chapter will help me keep growing—and maybe even spill over enough to water other sprouts nearby. We will be super courageous and tough learners! 💪

I’m incredibly grateful for the warm welcome from Dr. Rima Franklin, and to the search committee: Dr. Allison Johnson, Dr. Andrew Sackman, and Dr. LaMont Cannon—thank you for this opportunity.

To all my mentors—thank you for lighting the path. To my students and my family—thank you for making it all meaningful.

Here we go. 🌿💻💻💻

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