About

Professional

I’m a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab and the Broad Institute working on biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. I’m advised by Kevin Esvelt and Pardis Sabeti. I’m also a Draper Scholar at Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. My current research focuses on using metagenomic sequencing to detect emerging pathogens earlier. My research interests also include built environment controls for suppressing airborne transmission and mitigations for AI biorisk. Before MIT, I went to high school in Minnesota and studied physics and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Selected past jobs:

• Pathogen detection at SecureBio
• Biotech and biosecurity at the U.S. State Department
• Deep learning for tick and Lyme detection at the Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-borne Disease
• Deep learning for seismic tomography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Astronomy and supermassive black holes at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

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Music

Some artists I’m currently enjoying:

• Spray
• Lana Del Rey
• L’Impératrice
• Sting
• GZA

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Writing I like:

• From my brother Michel: A guide to the AI tribes
• Terry Bisson: They’re Made out of Meat
• From my friend Simon: Why is Switzerland so rich?
• Ron Chernow biographies: Washington: A Life
• Stefan Zweig: The World of Yesterday