Hello there!
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working at the intersection of quantitative genetics, statistical genomics, and machine learning for crop improvement.
My research focuses on understanding genotype–phenotype relationships and developing computational approaches for plant breeding, with interests in genomic prediction, GWAS, rare-variant detection, mixed models, and data-driven methods for complex trait analysis.
I have experience across statistical genetics, molecular genetics, field breeding, and high-performance computing, and I enjoy building tools and workflows that connect classical quantitative genetics with modern genomic and machine learning approaches.
Beyond research, I am also involved in teaching, scientific communication, and leadership initiatives within the plant science community.
Enjoy! :)