Research

My primary research interests are in population genetics, especially as applied to ancient DNA in human populations. I’m interested in integrating the theoretical backbone of evolutionary biology with modern computational and statistical tools to overcome the inherently limited and incomplete record of ancient genomes.

At Stony Brook University during my undergraduate I worked in the Veeramah Lab, dividing my time between the wet lab (where I worked on the sequencing and pooling of thousands of three-spined stickleback), and the dry lab, where I focused on computational ancient DNA work.

I have worked on projects involving functional allele frequency trajectories across time in Europe, using geospatial simulations to model European genetic history from 40kya to the present, and the prediction of geographic location of these simulated populations using deep learning software.