After studying biology and physics at MIT, I completed my Ph.D. in high-energy theoretical physics from Harvard. I then became excited about creating mathematical models to make sense of the large volumes of data emerging from new genomic and high-throughput technologies. After conducting postdoctoral work in computational and systems biology with John Quackenbush and Galit Lahav, I started my lab at the University of Arizona in 2018. I also lead the bioinformatics team at the University of Arizona Cancer Center.