The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.

The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.

I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.

My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.

When I was working on my Ph.D., I developed a computer algorithm to look for rapid changes in populations' DNA. Our DNA changes constantly over generations, but if certain changes spread through a population more quickly than others, they are probably the beneficial results of natural selection. This is the protection we give ourselves to survive.

Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.