Research & Teaching

Immunology, computational genomics, surgical sustainability, and teaching at MIT.

Research

Nov 2024 – Sep 2025
Ragon Institute of MIT and Harvard, Ringel Lab
Peter J. Eloranta Fellow (top 6 MIT proposals). Studied how methionine restriction changes antigen presentation between macrophages and CD8+ T cells using flow cytometry, cell culture, and Western blotting.
Sep 2023 – Oct 2024
MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab
Applied the deep learning model Enformer to 684 human-specific regulatory regions; found most mapped to astrocyte function and digestive regulation. Co-author on a manuscript in preparation; posters at the European Association for Cancer Research and the MIT Bioengineering Annual Conference.
Beth Israel Lahey Health
Built the Health Sustainability Normalized Index to compare surgical procedures by environmental impact. First author on the manuscript.
Summer 2025
Massachusetts General Hospital
MIT Clinical Prehealth Research Extern (one of five selected), anesthesiology and perioperative care.
Summer 2024
Utah Health Policy Project
Jeffrey L. Pressman Award (health policy research, Summer 2024). Analyzed Utah Medicare and Medicaid; authored a policy pamphlet distributed to Utah State Senate offices.
NASA L'SPACE
Lead author on a probiotic biomaterials proposal for long-duration spaceflight, selected as a top 15 project nationally.
2023–24
MIT Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing
Scholar (2023–24): medical chatbot research.

Publications

June 2026“The problem may not be fragmentation: it may be accumulation”, Rapid Response, The BMJ
March 2026“Integration without incentive reform will fail”, Rapid Response, The BMJ
June 2025Commentary on “A Post-Pandemic Wellness Experiences Scale”, Journal of Mental Health and Clinical Psychology
December 2024“Ending FGM: A New Ruling in the Gambia Can Reignite Progress Towards SDG Target 5.3”, Journal of Women's Health
September 2022Letter to the Editor, The New York Times

Teaching

TA, MIT Introduction to Chemistry (Fall 2024)
TA, MIT Statistics for Neuroscience (Fall 2025)
TA, MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute Medlytics (Caring Coach Award)

Honors

MIT Sloan Legatum Fellow, 2024–25 (sole undergraduate)
Burchard Scholar, 2024–25
OME Prize sponsored by Chevron, Fall 2023 (top science and engineering students)
BCAP Fellow, 2024 (public health service project)
PKG IDEAS Finalist and Top 2 Public Voting Winner, 2024

Founder

Mudzi Cooking Project

Co-founder and co-director of a social enterprise in rural Malawi replacing firewood with clean-burning briquettes she formulated from cornhusk and agricultural waste.

women engaged: 5,000
briquettes produced: 1.5 million
raised: $14,000

UN-subsidiary contract secured. PKG IDEAS Finalist; Princeton TigerLaunch finalist.

Research

Nov 2024 – Sep 2025

Ragon Institute of MIT and Harvard, Ringel Lab

Peter J. Eloranta Fellow (top 6 MIT proposals). Studied how methionine restriction changes antigen presentation between macrophages and CD8+ T cells using flow cytometry, cell culture, and Western blotting.

Sep 2023 – Oct 2024

MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab

Applied the deep learning model Enformer to 684 human-specific regulatory regions; found most mapped to astrocyte function and digestive regulation. Co-author on a manuscript in preparation; posters at the European Association for Cancer Research and the MIT Bioengineering Annual Conference.

Beth Israel Lahey Health

Built the Health Sustainability Normalized Index to compare surgical procedures by environmental impact. First author on the manuscript.

Summer 2025

Massachusetts General Hospital

MIT Clinical Prehealth Research Extern (one of five selected), anesthesiology and perioperative care.

Summer 2024

Utah Health Policy Project

Jeffrey L. Pressman Award (health policy research, Summer 2024). Analyzed Utah Medicare and Medicaid; authored a policy pamphlet distributed to Utah State Senate offices.

NASA L'SPACE

Lead author on a probiotic biomaterials proposal for long-duration spaceflight, selected as a top 15 project nationally.

2023–24

MIT Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing

Scholar (2023–24): medical chatbot research.

Publications

June 2026“The problem may not be fragmentation: it may be accumulation”, Rapid Response, The BMJ

March 2026“Integration without incentive reform will fail”, Rapid Response, The BMJ

June 2025Commentary on “A Post-Pandemic Wellness Experiences Scale”, Journal of Mental Health and Clinical Psychology

December 2024“Ending FGM: A New Ruling in the Gambia Can Reignite Progress Towards SDG Target 5.3”, Journal of Women's Health

September 2022Letter to the Editor, The New York Times

Mudzi Cooking Project

Co-founder and co-director of a social enterprise in rural Malawi replacing firewood with clean-burning briquettes she formulated from cornhusk and agricultural waste.

women engaged

5,000

briquettes produced

1.5 million

raised

$14,000

UN-subsidiary contract secured. PKG IDEAS Finalist; Princeton TigerLaunch finalist.