I started learning about the field of de novo protein design during my undergrad with the Snow Lab at Colorado State University. I would eventually do my thesis project with the Snow Lab, designing tandem repeat proteins for protein crystal formation. During my time there, I worked in many other labs to fund my education. I worked with a lab on mosquito genome/transcriptome analysis, another lab on ice-nucleating proteins in the aerobiome, and another lab on molecular dynamics and package development. I am currently rotating with the Khare Lab at Rutgers-NB, where I am redesigning enzymes for high substrate specificity. I would like to stay in the field of computational protein design for my PhD and future academic work. I am especially looking for interdisciplinary projects.