News

2024

• Attended SISMID at Emory
• Passed my first year qualifying exam!
• New preprint on contact patterns in the U.S.

2023

• Presented poster on spatiotemporal variation in contact patterns at EEID and the annual MIDAS Meeting
• Started my PhD in the Department of Biology at Georgetown
• Awarded the NSF GRF for my upcoming graduate studies!
• New paper on spatiotemporal trends in self-reported face mask-wearing in the U.S.
• Joined the MIDAS Student Committee

2022

• New paper on spatial heterogeneity in current smallpox vaccination history
• Presented work on spatiotemporal trends in mask-wearing at 2022 MIDAS Meeting
• First first-author paper published in PLOS Biology!

2021

• Joined the Bansal Lab as a Research Associate
• Graduated from Bowdoin College summa cum laude with Honors in Mathematics
• Presented new analyses of superspreader epidemiology using OutbreakTrees at 2021 MIDAS Meeting
• OutbreakTrees transmission tree database available online

2020

• Worked on several projects related to COVID-19 as an intern with the Innovation, Development, Evaluation, and Analytics (IDEA) group within the Division of Global Migration & Quarantine (DGMQ), CDC

2019

• Presented REU poster about transmission tree database at Epidemics 7
• Participated in Population Biology of Infectious Diseases REU with the Drake Lab at the University of Georgia