I am a PhD candidate in Biology at Caltech supervised by Professor Mikhail Shapiro. My research centers upon noninvasive surveillance and perturbation of neural circuits to study brain functions and to treat disorders in the central nervous system. I am currently focusing on engineering viral vectors for acoustically targeted gene transfer to achieve noninvasive, site-specific, cell type-specific, ultrasound-mediated genetic material delivery to the brain in various animal models. My long-term research goal is to develop primary/translational technologies for nonintrusive, real-time in vivo gene circuit manipulation and monitoring in the brain through integration of biomolecular ultrasound, synthetic biology, vector engineering, material science, and tissue engineering.