I am a third-year joint doctoral student at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) program and a trainee in the Neuroimaging Training Program as a MathWorks Fellow at MIT, where I am fortunate to be co-advised by Prof. Ed Boyden and Prof. Gabriel Kreiman. As a PhD minor, I am also part of the Humanitarian Studies Concentration at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Most of my time is spent developing various technologies towards whole brain emulation (WBE). My research is multi-disciplinary, spanning chemistry, physics, neuroscience and computation. I choose to focus my energy on C. elegans because it is an important and tractable first step and can serve as a groundtruth to evaluate the right approach for scaling up to mammalian and human WBE in the future.

Previously, I received B.S. in chemistry, B.A. in genetics and genomics and B.A. in psychology from University of California, Berkeley, where I worked with Prof. Dan Portnoy on the biochemical mechanisms of oxygen-dependent intracellular replication in anaerobic pathogens as a BSP Research Fellow supported by the Hellman Foundation. I then received S.M. in computational biology from Harvard University, where I worked with Prof. Rameen Beroukhim as a Point Foundation Scholar and a Sinclair Kennedy Fellow.

Outside of science, I am devoted to social impact, community building, humanitarian medicine and biotech entrepreneurship. I am a Davos50 delegate and Future50 Foresight Fellow from the Global Shapers Community and Global Foresight Network, both under the World Economic Forum. I have also been previously involved in Nucleate, a student-run biotech startup incubator as a co-managing director in Boston and a co-founder and co-president in GFLI@MIT, the first MIT support network for first-generation low-income graduate student community.

I am also interested in foresight framework and intergenerational fairness, especially given the rapid technological shifts, for which I had a panel discussion at the Davos 2025 Annual Meeting entitled Generation Uncertain. The recording is online and open to the public.