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Assistant Research Scientist

University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, Michigan

Genomics, epigenomics and transcriptomics of complex disease mechanisms · Single-cell and single-nucleus multi-omics to identify causal cell types · AMP-CMD and FUSION consortia, across academia and industry · Mentoring PhD trainees

Research Investigator

University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, Michigan

Single-nucleus RNA and ATAC across more than 400 human skeletal muscle samples · eQTL and caQTL mapping, statistical finemapping, colocalization with GWAS · Cell types, regulatory elements, target genes and causal variants behind GWAS signals

Senior Computational Biologist

University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, Michigan

Lead analyst, Accelerated Medicines Partnership for Common Metabolic Disorders · Effector transcripts underlying GWAS signals, via eQTL colocalization · Molecular QTL, finemapping and colocalization across single and multi-ancestry datasets

PhD, Human Genetics

University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, Michigan

Advisor: Stephen C. J. Parker · Thesis: Understanding the Genetics of Gene Regulation Using Multi-Omics Profiling

Master of Science, Bioengineering

EPFL · Lausanne, Switzerland

Master's thesis project at MIT

Bachelor of Technology, Biotechnology

IIT Guwahati · Assam, India

Integrating multi-omics data to identify underlying disease mechanisms in metabolic dysfunction

Pfizer, Inc. · Co-Investigator · $1,253,000

Principal Investigator: Stephen Parker

Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

University of Michigan

Rackham Travel Grant

University of Michigan · Twice

Barbour International Doctoral Scholarship

University of Michigan

International Doctoral Fellowship

American Association for University Women

Zeno Karl Schindler Grant

For a master's thesis project at MIT

Women in Science and Humanities (WISH) Fellowship

EPFL

Institute Merit Scholarship

IIT Guwahati · Three times

ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

Honorable mention

Best Poster Award

University of Michigan · Department of Human Genetics retreat

Mention d'excellence

EPFL · Award for academic excellence

Institute Silver Medal

IIT Guwahati

Maya Bose

University of Michigan · PhD project

Alice Wang

University of Michigan · PhD project

Work selected for a platform talk at the ADA meeting, 2024

Benjamin Li

University of Michigan · MSTP

Work selected for platform talks at ASHG 2023 and ADA 2024

Avery Mitchell Maddox

University of Michigan · MSTP

First prize, AMP-CMD Parliament Meeting poster session, Boston, March 2023 · Ongoing PhD project

Jianhui Gong

University of Michigan · PhD rotation project

Kinsey Van Deynze

University of Michigan · PhD rotation project

Breanna McBean

University of Michigan · PhD rotation project

Nuha Mahmood

University of Michigan · Master's thesis

Undergraduate researchers

Four students

Stephanie Laureano, University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, UM-SMART · Prashit Parikh, Vassar College, UM-SMART · Nicole Kim · Fateema Bazzi

High school researchers

Two students · Both co-authors

Hadley VanRenterghem, Ann Arbor Huron High School, co-author on the 2019 Genetics paper · Collin Wang, Detroit Country Day, co-author on the 2021 Diabetes paper

Peer review

Journals and meeting abstracts

Nature Communications · PLoS Genetics · PLoS ONE · eLife · Science Advances · Nucleic Acids Research · Human Molecular Genetics · Bioinformatics · Diabetes · Gene · American Diabetes Association meeting abstracts