About me

Hello! I’m Alex, a PhD computational biologist with 7 years of biotech experience at Arrakis Therapeutics, where I worked on RNA-targeting small molecule drug discovery. My expertise spans human genetics, multi-omics integration, RNA biology, statistical genetics, and genomics platform development. I’m experienced in cross-functional collaboration and communication with a wide range of scientific audiences, and I’m passionate about developing and applying computational methods to derive actionable biological insights from complex datasets.

I received my PhD from the Genomics and Computational Biology program at the University of Pennsylvania in Li-San Wang’s lab, where my research focused on understanding how noncoding genetic variants regulate gene expression and modulate disease risk. I developed INFERNO, an open-source bioinformatics framework for variant-to-gene-to-function inference, applied to neurological diseases, psychiatric traits, and 2,419 UK Biobank phenotypes.