Undergraduate, B.S. Computer Science and B.S. Biological Sciences
University of Maryland, College Park · Expected May 2027
bds062@umd.edu · GitHub · LinkedIn · Google Scholar · CV (PDF), Resume (PDF) (updated Sep 2026)
I am interested in machine learning methods for genomics and computer vision. My work spans structural variant detection in cancer, nanopore raw signal analysis, behavioral detection in fish, copy number variation in insect genomes, and host–pathogen evolutionary dynamics.
I am part of the Gemstone Honors Program and the Computer Science and Entomology Departmental Honors Programs at Maryland, where I hold a 3.8 GPA. I am looking for PhD programs in computational biology and machine learning.
Paper "Automated Temporal Localization of Behavior in Cichlid Fish with Few-Shot
Trajectory Tokens" accepted to the
Computer Vision for Ecology Workshop
at ECCV 2026, long form in review at WACV 2027.
Paper (PDF)
Best Poster Award, HiTSeq, ISMB — RawMod: A Deep Learning Approach to
Modification Agnostic Classification in Nanopore Sequencing.
Poster (PDF) ·
ISMB Award Announcement ·
LinkedIn Post
Best Poster Award, Entomological Society of Washington Student Showcase
— Correlations between Read Depth, Copy Number Variation, and Bt Resistance in
Helicoverpa zea.
Poster (PDF) ·
UMD Entomology Award Announcement
2nd Prize, Crop Science Society of America Poster Competition, PAG33
— Correlations between Read Depth, Copy Number Variation, and Bt Resistance in
Helicoverpa zea.
Poster (PDF) ·
PAG33 Award Announcement
Best Talk Award, University of Maryland Gemstone Library Awards —
Investigating the Link between the Ora4 Gene and Social Behaviors in African Cichlids.
Awarded $2,000 in research funding.
UMD Award Announcement ·
LinkedIn Post