PhD Candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Kate E. Galloway Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2022 - Present

Thesis: “Constructing a Synthetic Multicellular Regeneration Model from a Genetically Uniform Population”

Design genetic circuits to enable autonomous decision-making within mammalian cell populations
Develop a model-based design framework for predictable and robust cell engineering through leveraging biophysical coupling of genes

Catherine A. Fromen Research Group, University of Delaware

2018 - 2021

Thesis: “Computational and In Vitro Modeling of Aerosol Diffusion through Pulmonary Mucus to Optimize Viral Sponge Delivery for SARS-CoV-2 Treatment”

Actualized lobe-specific targeting in 3D-printed airway replica by transforming a medical grade endotracheal tube, leading to a first-author peer reviewed publication and patent-pending prototype
Spearheaded modeling of the lingual frenulum in patients with ankyloglossia as part of an interdisciplinary team including otolaryngologists from Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, culminating in a manuscript and oral presentation

Selected Awards

Graduate Research Fellow

National Science Foundation

2022 - 2025

Edward Clark Walsh Presidential Fellow

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2021-2022

Charles B. Evans Prize

University of Delaware

2021

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