Hello! I'm a fourth-year PhD student in the Biostatistics Department. Prior to coming to UW, I studied math and religion at Bowdoin College, and then I spent two years working as a research assistant at Statistics Collaborative, a clinical trials consulting company in Washington, DC.

Broadly, I am interested in research related to clinical trials for infectious diseases. For my dissertation research, I'm currently working with Dr. Elizabeth Brown on a Bayesian joint longitudinal-survival model in calendar time that is motivated by a longitudinal cohort study of infants whose mothers had received a COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy. Our model incorporates informative priors for the baseline hazard of infection based on publicly available data on the epidemic curve in each study location. We hope this model will be useful for a variety of studies occurring during epidemics that necessitate a calendar time model.

I have also been a research assistant with Dr. Brown since September 2021. We have an ongoing project assessing the dapivirine vaginal ring for HIV prevention, and I have also assisted with several projects related to household transmission of COVID-19. Last year, I collaborated with Dr. Holly Janes on study design for an HIV challenge trial in infant macaques in the effort to prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission. During my first year, I was a research assistant on a forensic genetics project supervised by Dr. Bruce Weir.

In my free time, I am an avid home cook, and I also enjoy running, hiking, and cross-country skiing.