I completed a BSc in Biological sciences at the University of Montreal, majoring in Microbiology and Immunology. In 2008, I completed a MSc in Bioinformatics at the University of Montreal, with the research component performed at the Infectious Disease Research Centre in Ste-Foy. My Master's thesis, co-supervised by Prof. Gertraud Burger, Prof. Mathieu Blanchette and Prof. Barbara Papadopoulou, is entitled Insights into the function of short interspersed degenerated retroposons in the protozoan parasite Leishmania. 

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I then completed my PhD in Genomics and Computational Biology at the Institute of Molecular Bioscience under the supervision of Prof. John Mattick in 2012. Coincidentally, I became the 10,00th PhD graduate from the University of Queensland. My thesis focused on using evolutionary comparative genomics to identify new regions in the human genome that may function through long noncoding RNAs.

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My postdoctoral training was performed as a Research Officer in the neuroscience division at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research, where I developed bioinformatics and machine learning tools centred on the analysis of high-throughput sequencing data.

 

Since 2014, I have been interested in genomic applications and algorithms using real-time nanopore sequencing. Notably, I helped generate the world's first megabase-busting DNA sequencing read.