https://jackievaleri.github.io/tags/about-me/Recent content in About Me on Jackie ValeriHugo -- gohugo.ioenTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://jackievaleri.github.io/posts/introduction-hello-world/Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://jackievaleri.github.io/posts/introduction-hello-world/<p>Hello and welcome to my blog! I&rsquo;m Jackie Valeri (she/her), and I&rsquo;m thrilled to share a bit about myself and my interests with you.</p> <h2 id="who-am-i-">Who Am I? 👋</h2> <h4 id="brief-introduction">Brief Introduction</h4> <p>I currently work as a Data Scientist at Moderna, where I am part of a data science team within research and early development. I hold a PhD in Biological Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where I was a Siebel Scholar (Class of 2023) and a Takeda Fellow (2021-2022) in the lab of Jim Collins. My research in the Collins Lab centered around machine learning for small molecule drug discovery, specifically antibiotics, as well as training sequence-to-function models for synthetic biology applications. I hold Master&rsquo;s and Bachelor&rsquo;s degrees in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania where I also obtained a minor in computer science.</p>