I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Program of Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology at the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at HSPH working primarily with Alkes Price. Prior to that I was a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Eran Halperin at the International Computer Science Institute (Algorithms research group) in Berkeley CA. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Connecticut working in the lab of Ion Mandoiu.
My main research focus is computational population genetics. I am interested in statistical and computational methods for understanding genetic risk factors for common diseases with a particular focus in the study of admixed populations.
Education
Post-doctoral training, 2010-, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
Post-doctoral training, 2008-2010, International Computer Science Institute, Algorithms Group, Berkeley, CA.
Ph.D., 2008, Computer Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. Thesis: “Scalable algorithms for analysis of genomic diversity data”
B.Sc., 2003, Faculty of Computer Science, "A.I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania.
