Education & Awards
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neurobiology
Stanford University, Present
Career Development Awards
- NINDS K99/R00 Career Transition Award
Fellowships
- A.P. Giannini Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- School of Medicine Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Stanford Jump Start Award for Research Excellence
PhD in Biomedical Sciences
University of California, San Francisco, October 2019
Thesis: Sharp-Wave Ripple Alterations Mark Memory Decline and Interneuron Drive
Advisor: Yadong Huang, MD, PhD; Co-mentor: Loren Frank, PhD
Thesis Committee: Li Gan, PhD, chair; Jeanne Paz, PhD
Fellowships
- NRSA F31 Predoctoral Fellowship
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- Genentech Foundation Fellowship
- Mortiz-Heyman Discovery Fellowship
Awards
- UCSF Career Development Award
- Gladstone Institutes Career Advancement Award
- UCSF Graduate Division Travel Award
- Alzheimer’s Association Young Scientist Award
- Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease Student of the Year
- Graduate Division Travel Award
- BioLegend Travel Award
B.S. in Biological Sciences: Physiology & Neurobiology; B.S. in Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park, May 2014
Gemstone Honors Program Thesis: The Impact of Prenatal Nicotine Exposure on Impulsivity and Neural Firing in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex
Advisor: Matthew Roesch, PhD
Scholarships
- Banneker-Key Scholarship
- Maryland Distinguished Scholar
- National Merit Scholar
- Dr. Michael Vacarro Research Scholarship
Awards
- HHMI Gemstone Undergraduate Research Award
- Computer Science Departmental Teaching Excellence Award
- Omicron Delta Kappa, National Leadership Honors Society
- Upsilon Pi Epsilon, International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines
- Google Games DC: 2nd place team 2012 & 2013
- Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge: 3rd place team at UMD 2013
Montgomery Blair High School Magnet Program, May 2010
Senior Research Project: Western Blot Semi-Quantitative Analysis of Non-Canonical cAMP-Dependent Protein Expression Induced by PACAP
Advisor: Lee Eiden, PhD
Awards
- Washington Academy of Sciences Isaac Newton Award
- AP Scholar with Distinction
- Montgomery County Humane Society Service Award
- Key Club Distinguished Service Award
- State of Maryland Certificate of Meritorious Service
- Blair English Departmental Excellence Award
- Summa Cum Laude, National Latin Exam Level 1
- Maxima Cum Laude, National Latin Exam Level III/IV Prose
- North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad Open Round Finalist