About

Hey there!

I am a MSc student in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at ETH Zurich. My research interests lie in multimodal learning for healthcare, particularly in representation learning and generative modeling. I am currently completing my master’s thesis at the Biomedical Informatics Lab on this topic.

During my time at ETH, I have also contributed to software development and research at IVIA Lab, where I worked as a full-stack engineer on a tool for real-time collaborative knowledge creation between humans and AI.

Before getting here, I was a bioinformatics research assistant at Qatar Computing Research Institute. There, I contributed to several projects, including finding novel genetic variants influencing ECG-derived traits.

I hold dual BSc degrees in Computer Science and Biological Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University, where I was named an Andrew Carnegie Scholar and selected as a Fifth Year Scholar in recognition of my academic excellence and contributions to the university community.

Love for math

My childhood has been defined by a deep fascination and love for math. As my math professor used to say: “The universe may die one day but mathematical truths - mathematical truths are eternal truths!”. I feel blessed to be a part of a species that gained the consciousness necessary to realize these truths (yes, I can’t get over the fact that the square root of 2 is provably irrational, can you?).

Chess player

Sometimes (very often) I like to play chess online! I used to play sometimes when I was young but I never realized it was a deep and well studied field in its own right; I just love the fact that there have been studies of this game for so many centuries that are relevant to this day. I enjoy watching videos about historical chess figures and theories on openings and endgames; the recent developments in artificial intelligence are also really interesting and very telling of our relationship with computers.