I received my BS in Ecology (2009) and PhD in Ecology (2016) from the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia under the direction of Dr. John M. Drake. I did my postdoc (2016-2017) with Dr. Barbara A. Han at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Currently, I am the lead data scientist for the Office of Innovation, Development, Evaluation, and Analytics (IDEA) within the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ) at CDC.

Research interests

Vector-borne and zoonotic diseases

Machine learning

Geospatial analysis and visualization

Data science and scientific computing