I studied Biostatistics, Mathematics and Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, supported by a Morehead-Cain Scholarship. I moved to the University of Cambridge in 2020 for an MPhil (Churchill Scholarship) and PhD (Gates Cambridge Scholarship) at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, supervised by Hilary Martin.
My graduate research combined population and statistical genetics to study the consequences of consanguinity on human health and to understand how rare and common genetic variation jointly shape cognitive development across childhood. This work included developing methods to reduce confounding in autozygosity–trait association studies, estimating the contribution of consanguinity to the prevalence of common diseases, and analysing genetic influences on cognitive trajectories in longitudinal birth cohorts. I also contributed to collaborative projects on rare neurodevelopmental disorders and recessive disease associations in diverse populations.
I am now a Postdoctoral Fellow. My research focuses on developing methods that leverage family-based genetic designs and de novo genetic variation to enable causal inference.