I build AI-accelerated, closed-loop discovery systems for brain aging.

Sentinel

Agent that predicts antigen targets for unknown T cell receptors and designs validation experiments.

2nd of 70 teams and People's Choice, Bio x AI Hackathon at Y Combinator

Code

ANSWERBACK

Fixed-budget agent querying archived experiments to find which secreted factors change cells.

re:AGENT hackathon

In vivo immune cell replacement platform

Swaps the aging brain's immune cells for young, gene-editable ones to find what drives aging.

Preprint, Code, Alzforum

Aging mouse brain atlas

RNA atlas of 15 mouse brain regions across 7 ages, with a public browser.

Cell paper, Browser, Code

Ember

Android cigar journal whose home screen is a painted terrace you can lean into.

Code

Principal Investigator, Brain Aging

Calico Life Sciences

Leads brain aging research, building computational, in vitro and in vivo discovery platforms.

• Perturb-seq screens of hundreds of gene targets, in vitro and in the aging brain.
• Cell Painting screens of 2,500+ compounds, run with automation and AI.
• Trusted tester for frontier lab AI tools and models.

Postdoctoral Scholar

Stanford University, Wyss-Coray lab

Built the aging mouse brain atlas and multiomic methods that measure aging across tissues.

Lead, American Heart Association / Allen Brain Health RNA-seq core

Stanford University

Ran bulk and single-cell RNA-seq projects for a consortium of ten Stanford labs.

PhD, Genetics and Bioinformatics

Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing and University of Cologne, Partridge lab

Diet, DNA methylation and aging in mice.

MSc, Molecular Biosciences and Systems Biology

Heidelberg University

BSc, Molecular Biotechnology

Technical University of Munich