Multi-purpose smart person (on a good day): Computer Scientist, Chemist, Philosopher, and Researcher.
Also, Caffeine lover, proficient yapper, menace in a lab coat, constructive empiricist, and salsa dancer
I'm currently a Computer Science and Chemistry student at the University of Toronto, doing a 12-month internship as a bioinformatician at the R&D department of Sanofi.
I am also currently a TA, and teach about elegant solutions and cool concepts in theoretical computer science. Few things are as satisfying as watching students crack a tough problem—or convincing them dynamic programming is magic (and sometimes nightmare fuel).
In general, I thrive in the overlap of disciplines, the buzz of caffeine, and the chaos of big ideas.
I like to think there is something fundamentally computational about biology; life is information...and Computer Science offers super rich frameworks to deal with information
Most of my projects on synthetic biology and bioinformatics - at least the ones not protected by confidentiality agreements - have either been crafted in conjunction with, or heavily inspired by, the iGEM Toronto synthetic biology research team.
I have dipped my toes in many areas of computational chemistry. From exploring ab initio methods like DFT and Hartee-Fock, to more empirical methods such as molecular docking simulations, and even applying unsupervised Machine Learning to gain insight on molecular strcutures for Drug Discovery.
I've had opportunities to work on this awesome topic as part of University courses, in Hackathons, and most notably as a volunteer researcher at the drug discovery startup Gene2Lead!
As an avid "spooky action at a distance" enjoyer, I am fortunate enough to be doing research with Professor Nathan Wiebe on quantum simulation algorithms. We focus on simulation of electronic structure Hamiltonians
ExploreHave you ever come across a situation in "real-life" which strongly resembles an instance of the problems that some of the more weird/obscure/intimidating Theoretical Computer Science topics aim to solve? Have you ever then thought: "COOL! this is the perfect opportunity for me to spend the next week reinventing the wheel, diving into my previous notes and textbooks, and crafting with my own implementation of this solution, rather than looking at existing (potentially more optimized) solutions" . Well...it has certainly happened to me more than once.
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View Resume"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty”
"Communication is one of those delightful things that only work in practice; in theory it's impossible."
"Sometimes mess is more than just an easy choice. It's the optimal choice."
"When it comes to making decisions based on limited evidence, few things are as important as having good priors."
"Zhuangzi said, 'The minnows swim about so freely, following the openings wherever they take them. Such is the happiness of fish.' Huizi said, 'You are not a fish, so whence do you know the happiness of fish?' Zhuangzi said, 'You are not I, so whence do you know I don’t know the happiness of fish?' Huizi said, 'I am not you, to be sure, so I don’t know what it is to be you. But by the same token, since you are certainly not a fish, my point about your inability to know the happiness of fish stands intact.' Zhuangzi said, 'Let’s go back to the starting point. You said, ‘Whence do you know the happiness of fish?’ Since your question was premised on your knowing that I know it, I must have known it from right here, up above the Hao River.'"
"The moon has lost her memory.
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone
With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
The reminiscence comes"