Curriculum vitæ

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Education

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry | 2023
Master of Science in Chemistry | 2020
Advisor: Professor David B. Collum
Thesis: Structure-Selectivity Principles Underlying Alkylations of Oppolzer’s Camphorsultam Enolates

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New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry | 2018
Advisors: Professors Wael Rabeh and Panče Naumov
Thesis: Conserved loops mediate the active site microenvironment and determine the color of bioluminescence in beetle luciferases
Minor: Urban Studies

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Research

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Eli Lilly and Company

Postdoctoral Scientist, Exploratory Discovery AI | 2023 - present
Transfer learning approaches for reaction product prediction in the low-data regime

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Cornell University

The Collum Group | Graduate Research Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate | 2018 - 2023
Oppolzer enolates: solution structures, mechanism of alkylation, and the origin of stereoselectivity
Alkyl silazides: highly soluble organosodium bases with broad synthetic applications
MoFlowGAN: a tandem generative model for property-targeted molecular graph generation | Independent project

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Exscientia

Cheminformatics Intern | Spring 2023
Identifying data-driven MPO weights for computational drug design

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New York Univesity Abu Dhabi

The Rabeh Lab | Undergraduate Researcher | 2016 - 2018
Beetle luciferases with naturally red- and blue-shifted emission

Naumov Smart Materials Lab | Undergraduate Researcher | 2016 - 2018
Thermochemiluminescent Peroxide Crystals
pH-Dependent fluorescence from firefly oxyluciferin in agarose thin films
Natural product isolation of the extract of Cleome rupicola fruits

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University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras

The Rivera Lab | NSF–REU Student | Summer 2017
Hierarchical assembly of supramolecular G-quadruplexes via enzyme instructed self-assembly

Teaching

• CHEM 7650 | Advanced Physical Organic Chemistry and Reaction Mechanisms
• CHEM 2510 | Introduction to Experimental Organic Chemistry
• CHEM 2070 | General Chemistry I

Honors and Awards

• Bauer Scholarship Award | 2022
  Travel award to return to NYU Abu Dhabi to give a research talk.
• ACS Graduate Teaching Award | 2020
  Teaching award given by the Cornell Section of the American Chemical Society in recognition of performance as a teaching assistant. (Formerly known as the Bayer-Covestro Teaching Award)
• NYU Abu Dhabi Conference Travel Grant | 2018
  Travel grant awarded to give a spotlight talk at the 2018 Meeting of the International Society for Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence in Nantes, France.
• ACS International Undergraduate Student Chapter Travel Grant | 2018
  Travel grant awarded to present honors thesis results at the 255th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans, LA, USA.
• PR-CLIMB Travel Grant | 2017
  Travel grant to present summer research results at the 1st ACS Asia Pacific International Chapters Conference in Jeju, South Korea; awarded for 2nd place presentation at the PR-CLIMB research symposium.
• NSF–REU Award | 2017
  Grant to complete research at the NSF-REU site at the University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras in San Juan, including housing, board, ancillary travel, and personal expenses.

Publications and presentations

Take a look at the research page for a full list of my academic publications and conference presentations.

Leadership

• Indianapolis Chair • Lilly Postdoctoral Scientists | June 2024 - Present
• Organizational Lead • 2024 Lilly Postdoc Summit Planning Committee | March 2024 - October 2024
• Senior Graduate Student • The Collum Group at Cornell Chemistry | June 2021 - July 2023
• Project Team Lead • Cornell College of Computing and Information Sciences | August 2022 - January 2023
• President • ACS International Student Chapter at NYU Abu Dhabi | August 2017 - May 2018
• Financial Director and Founding Board Member • Love Local Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi | July 2014 - May 2018
• Class of 2018 Representative • The 2010 Fund Committee at NYU Abu Dhabi | September 2014 - June 2016

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