Hello! I’m Etowah. I’m a PhD student in Systems Biology at Columbia.

I’m interested in building increasingly complete (re: multi-modal, temporal, molecular) representations of biology to understand and engineer biology. I hope to do so by advancing techniques in experimental optimization, machine learning, biophysics, and patience.

I cut my teeth doing gene editing and evolutionary genetics research at Yale (where I studied molecular biology and computer science). Subsequently, I was a research software engineer at Harvard Medical School in the HIDIVE lab working on open source tools for genomics (Gosling). I also developed software at Ginkgo Bioworks as an intern.

I’m originally from southern Applachia where I grew up on a small farm.