Introduction: Hello World!

Hello and welcome to my blog! I’m Jackie Valeri (she/her), and I’m thrilled to share a bit about myself and my interests with you. Who Am I? 👋 Brief Introduction 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’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania where I also obtained a minor in computer science.