Biography

I am a Patent Agent at Wilson Sonsini. My interests are in patent law and technology commercialization for biotechnology and life sciences.

I completed my Juris Doctorate (J.D.) at the UC Berkeley School of Law. At Berkeley Law, I was a Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Scholar and Articles Editor for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ). I also represented Berkeley Law at the 2024 USPTO National Patent Application Drafting Competition, where my teammates and I were national runner-up.

I earned my Ph.D. at the University of Washington Department of Bioengineering, where I was a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellow and NCAA Postgraduate Scholar. My doctoral studies were co-advised by Prof. Charles Murry and Prof. Ying Zheng and explored engineering thick human cardiac tissue constructs with patterned, perfusable vasculature for treatment of myocardial infarction.

During my doctoral studies, I worked as a venture analyst at Washington Research Foundation & WRF Capital, an ITHS/WRF technology commercialization fellow, and as a patent intern with UW CoMotion. I also completed a Technology Entrepreneurship Certificate through the UW Foster School of Business.

Prior to my Ph.D., I studied chemical-biological engineering and biology at MIT where I researched at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the Daniel I.C. Wang Group. I also interned at the Abbvie Bioresearch Center.