P.D. Soros Fellowship for New Americans

Hana Lee is a software engineer, seeking to solve interesting problems through code. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago where she studied plant-pathogen interactions. In particular, Hana investigated how the genetic background of a host plant may affect the profile of microbial communities that infect it.

Hana was born in Korea. She and her family are naturalized citizens; they reside in Rego Park, NY.

Having first received her bachelor's with High Honors in biochemical sciences from Harvard University, Hana completed her Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley.

Hana's interests range widely from blogging on literature to kendo. She situated her research at the intersection of several fields, including genetics, genomics, cell biology, engineering, and statistics, and she is interested in the intersection between genetics, genomics and statistics, as well as the broader question of how biological systems are optimized to survive in a changing environment.