Education
Bioinformatics MSc, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2022
Human Nutrition MSc, University of Aberdeen, 2021
Awards and Honors
Master’s Merit Fellowship, Graduate College, UIUC, 2025
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, REEEC, UIUC/US Department of Education, 2024
Aspire Fellowship, Graduate College, UIUC, 2024 (ceded)
Summer Predoctoral Institute Fellowship, Graduate College, UIUC, 2024 (ceded)
Cancer Research Training Award, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, 2023 & 2024
Fraser Prize, School of Science, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2022
Saltire Scholarship, Scottish Government, 2020
Additional Campus Affiliations
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
Highlighted Publications
Keskus A., Bryant A., Ahmad T., Yoo B., Aganezov S., Goretsky A., Donmez A., Lansdon L.A., Rodriguez I., Park J., Liu Y., Cui X., Gardner J., McNulty B., Sacco S., Shetty J., Zhao Y., Tran B., Narzisi G., Helland A., Cook D.E., Carroll A., Chang P., Kolesnikov A., Molloy E.K., Pushel I., Guest E., Pastinen T., Shafin K., Miga K.H., Malikic S., Day C., Robine N., Sahinalp C., Dean M., Farooqi M.S., Paten B., Kolmogorov M. Severus: accurate detection and characterization of somatic structural variation in tumor genomes using long reads. Accepted by Nature Biotechnology January 20, 2025.