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Career

· Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon Web Services (AWS)2025–2025
· Research Program Co-Lead, Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering2024–2024
· PHD Researcher, Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering2021–
· Head TA - CS 189 289A (Introduction To Machine Learning), UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)2020–2020
· Course Facilitator (CS 370), UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)2019–2019
· Undergraduate Student Instructor (Teaching Assistant), UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)2019–2020
· Undergraduate Researcher, Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research2018–2021
· Research Assistant, The Miller Lab2018–2018

Publications (95)

The conservation status of the world's reptiles
2013
909
cited
A global reptile assessment highlights shared conservation needs of tetrapods
Nature · 2022
307
cited
Molecular phylogeny and divergence dates for Australasian elapids and sea snakes (hydrophiinae): evidence from seven genes for rapid evolutionary radiations
Journal of Evolutionary Biology · 2008
167
cited
Diversification rates and phenotypic evolution in venomous snakes (Elapidae)
Royal Society Open Science · 2016
125
cited
Multilocus phylogeny and recent rapid radiation of the viviparous sea snakes (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae).
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2013
119
cited
Evaluating molecular clock calibrations using Bayesian analyses with soft and hard bounds
Biology Letters · 2007
106
cited
Over-exploitation and illegal trade of reptiles in Indonesia
2012
89
cited
Molecular evidence for a rapid late-Miocene radiation of Australasian venomous snakes (Elapidae, Colubroidea).
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2008
72
cited
Combining molecular, morphological and ecological data to infer species boundaries in a cryptic tropical pitviper.
2006
63
cited
Recent rapid speciation and ecomorph divergence in Indo‐Australian sea snakes
Molecular Ecology · 2013
59
cited
Venom Down Under: Dynamic Evolution of Australian Elapid Snake Toxins
Toxins · 2013
59
cited
Molecular evidence for Gondwanan origins of multiple lineages within a diverse Australasian gecko radiation
2009
54
cited
Trophic specialization drives morphological evolution in sea snakes
Royal Society Open Science · 2018
52
cited
Future Directions in the Research and Management of Marine Snakes
Frontiers in Marine Science · 2018
50
cited
Arthropod molecular divergence times and the Cambrian origin of pentastomids
2010
47
cited
Multiple rod–cone and cone–rod photoreceptor transmutations in snakes: evidence from visual opsin gene expression
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · 2016
47
cited
Danger in the reef: Proteome, toxicity, and neutralization of the venom of the olive sea snake, Aipysurus laevis.
Toxicon · 2015
43
cited
Uncoupling ecological innovation and speciation in sea snakes (Elapidae, Hydrophiinae, Hydrophiini)
Journal of Evolutionary Biology · 2010
42
cited
Phylogeny and divergence times of filesnakes (Acrochordus): inferences from morphology, fossils and three molecular loci.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2010
41
cited
The evolution of scale sensilla in the transition from land to sea in elapid snakes
Open Biology · 2016
39
cited
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