Henry S
- Research Program Mentor
PhD candidate at University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
Expertise
Chemical engineering & data science applied to biology
Bio
Hi I am Henry! I am a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley studying Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. I am interested in the intersection of nanotechnology, data science, and biology. In particular I am developing delivery tools for genetic manipulation of plants. Outside of academia I love sports and the outdoors. I play tennis on the UC Berkeley club team and spend my time hiking in the Bay Area.Project ideas
Data Science & Machine Learning Applied to Biological Phenomena
The age of data science is upon us, a diverse array of massive data sets are now publicly available. Insight into many biological phenomena may hide in these data sets, waiting to be discovered. Potential ideas include leveraging publicly available SARS-COV-2 genomic data to identify trends in infection, mortality or risk-factors, mining RNA-seq data to study transcriptional changes under different circumstances (drug treatment, etc), predicting protein-nanomaterial interactions from protein composition/folding data, or even investigating environmental damage such as deforestation. Working on a project like this could result in a publication in a junior science journal!
Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture
Agriculture accounts for up to 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Simultaneously, population growth and climate change strain agricultural systems. New technologies and approaches to agriculture are rapidly under development to address these challenges. Keeping track of new agricultural technologies such as genetically modified crops, nano-fertilizers/pesticides, plant vaccines, and big data is challenging. Furthermore, the agricultural policy and regulatory landscape is ever changing. A Review of these technologies would be valuable to help policy makers and stake-holder understand the most promising and impactful agricultural technologies and methodologies. Working on this project would result in a Review paper for submission to scientific or policy journal as well as a presentation at a conference.