(Bio as of summer 2019) I joined Columbia University in 2018 as a postdoc co-mentored by Dr. Wendy Chung and Dr. Yufeng Shen. I study rare genetic causes of human diseases using next-generation sequencing data. Additionally, I am interested in improving genetic variant functional interpretation using machine learning. Before joining the lab, I was a postdoc at Mayo Clinic working on genotype-phenotype association and phenotyping from electronic health records. I received my PhD in computational biology from the University of Alberta. During that time, I was working on predicting microRNA targets and intrinsically disordered protein regions using machine learning.