About me

I’m a PhD candidate in Chemical Biology at Johns Hopkins (Leung Lab), where I study poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) and the enzymology of PARP1/2. My work focuses on developing chemical tools and mass-spectrometry workflows to identify PAR-binding sites and understand how PAR scaffolds nucleic-acid–associated processes.

I’m passionate about reproducible analysis (R/Python), structural biology visualization, and turning complex datasets into clear, testable hypotheses.

Research interests

• PAR readers and binding-site mapping (cleavable photocrosslinkers, proteomics)
• Enzymology of PARP1/2 and NAD⁺–driven signaling
• Nucleic acids, RNA-binding proteins, and biomolecular condensates
• Data-driven method development (FragPipe, DIA-NN, custom R pipelines)

Selected projects

• PARmap: proteomics probe + analysis framework to localize PAR-binding sites
• Domain-level enrichment + PTM overlap analyses for PAR-associated proteins
• Structure/sequence visualization of PAR interfaces (PyMOL, AlphaFold)

Outside the lab

I love long bike rides, hiking, and exploring the outdoors. When I’m not debugging a script, I’m probably wrenching on a bike or planning the next route.