Val (he/him) is a graduate student in the Molecular and Cellular Biology program. He previously graduated from Louisiana State University, dual-majoring in Bioengineering and Computer Science. At LSU, he worked in Dr. William Todd Monroe's lab developing Lab-on-a-Chip microfluidics technologies to facilitate quantitative study of zebrafish sperm motility, and collaborated with the Aquatic Germplasm and Genetic Resources Center to develop open-source hardware platforms for maintaining fish stocks. After moving to Seattle in 2021, he worked in Drs. Brian Beliveau and Jay Shendure's labs at UW Genome Sciences exploring computational methods for analyzing terabyte-scale light-sheet microscopy data. In the Srivatsan lab, he is excited to learn about and develop deep learning methods for biological sequence understanding and design. Outside the lab, you can find him on the tennis court, making music at his home studio, or playing games with friends
