About Me

I am a materials designer who harnesses chemistry and physics to endow soft matter with unprecedented functionalities that enhance human health. I obtained my B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University in 2012 and then spent 3 years working with polyolefins at the ExxonMobil Chemical Company, where I held roles in scale-up and manufacturing. My time at ExxonMobil instilled in me a fascination for polymers, which motivated me to return to school in 2015 to study Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University.

At Stanford, I trained with Prof. Zhenan Bao as a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellow. For my thesis, I developed new insights on how to design conducting polymer-based hydrogels to address the challenge of intimately coupling electronics with biological systems. My work culminated in numerous honors, including the 2022 American Chemical Society (ACS) Global Outstanding Graduate Student in Polymer Science and Engineering award and the 2020 Materials Research Society (MRS) Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award. Currently, I am a Schmidt Science Fellow training with Prof. Giovanni Traverso and Prof. Robert Langer at MIT and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where I am developing stimuli-responsive materials to enable long-term drug delivery.