Bio

Thanks for visiting! I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard/Princeton University. I completed my Ph.D. at Princeton University, working with Lindy McBride on the evolution of a man-biting mosquito, Culex pipiens. I initiated and spearheaded PipPop, the Culex pipiens population genomics project, and collaborated with 200+ amazing mosquito researchers worldwide. At Princeton, I was a Centennial Fellow and received generous support from the Masason Foundation and the Honjo International Scholarship Foundation.

I earned my Master's at Columbia University where I truly fell in love with evolutionary biology and genomics. My thesis investigated the genomic basis of behavioral variation in a social burying beetle under the supervision of Dustin Rubenstein and Sheng-Feng Shen, which was awarded the Alfred Russel Wallace Prize for the best MA thesis. I was also fortunate enough to be in the lab of Molly Przeworski, working with Molly Schumer (now at Stanford) and Zack Baker to study the evolution of recombination across vertebrates.

I am originally from Tokyo, Japan. I graduated from the University of Tokyo for my undergraduate degree where I worked with Nobuyuki Kutsukake on the evolution of (eu)sociality in the naked mole rat and other African rodents.

I spent most of my youth chasing soccer balls, savoring ramen, and playing Nintendo games. Since moving to NYC for grad school, I've found a new passion for beautiful jazz and flavorful coffee.