Hello!
I’m a PhD student in Joseph Powell’s group at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. My research interests include Single-Cell Genomics, particularly on understanding the genetic control of gene expression and its role in disease in human populations.
During my PhD, I developed machine learning methods to improve cell-type classification from scRNA-seq data using supervised (scPred: Genome biology, 2019) and unsupervised (Nebulosa: Bioinformatics, 2021) methods.
I graduated from Genomic Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). During this period, I worked with Jeff Leek in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health analyzing RNA-seq data as part of the Rail-RNA software, and Julio Collado developing methods to infer genetic ancestry from Mexican populations.