About

Kristen received a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering in 2002 and a Master's in Electrical Engineering in 2004 from the University of Washington, Seattle, where she focused on analog and high-frequency circuit design. In 2004 she joined the Biological Engineering department at MIT working on microfluidic device applications for disease detection. After finishing a Master's in Biological Engineering in 2006, Kristen continued on at MIT with a focus on developing computational tools and algorithms for high throughput proteomics. She completed her Ph.D. in June 2010 and trained postdoctoral associate in the Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research (MIT). She is now an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia.

Education

MIT

Ph.D. , Bioengineering

Class of 2010

Awards & Publications