Hello! I’m Etowah, a second year PhD student in Systems Biology at Columbia studying machine learning and biology. I am advised by Prof. Mohammed AlQuraishi. In my research I seek to build increasingly complete (re: multi-modal, temporal, molecular) representations of biology to understand and engineer biology.
In my undergrad at Yale, I developed CRISPR-based gene editing tools with Prof. Farren Isaacs. Subsequently, I worked at Harvard Medical School as a research software engineer with Prof. Nils Gehlenborg on tools for genomics data. I also developed software at Ginkgo Bioworks as an intern. I’m originally from southern Applachia where I grew up on a small farm.
I am happy to chat about research or anything else! Feel free to reach out. A few things I love discussing: self-supervised learning, mechanistic interpretability, protein structure prediction, amortized sampling, cloud labs, optimal experimental design, expansion microscopy, CryoET, WebGL, and banjo.
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