Studies

Camilla is a first-year Biostatistics PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a member of UNC’s Precision Health and AI Research Lab (PHAIR). Camilla is interested in survey sampling, clinical trials, precision medicine, and causal inference as well as the social determinants of health.

Research experience

Water Institute, August 2025-May 2026

Camilla defended her senior honors thesis, “An Exploration of the Relationship Between Managing Authority and
Sanitation in the Healthcare Facilities of Nepal”, through the Water Institute at UNC. (PI: Dr. Ryan Cronk, Instructor of Record: Dr. Michael Kosorok).

Carbonshed Lab, Spring and Summer 2025

Camilla was selected for the NSF-funded Interational Research Experience for Undergraduates (IREU) Frontier Research in Earth Sciences (FRES) project, “From Peaks To Slopes To Communities, Tropical Glacierized Volcanoes As Sentinels of Global Change: Integrated Impacts On Water, Plants and Elemental Cycling” (PI: Dr. Diego Riveros-Iregui). Camilla conducted fieldwork in the Cayambe Coca Ecological Reserve and National Park in Ecuador. She measured carbon dioxide and methane levels in the headwater streams of the páramo, a location thought to have large effects on the global carbon cycle.

The Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Ecology Lab (IDEEL), Summer and Fall 2024

The multi-year project Sapovirus-associated Acute Gastroenteritis in Early Childhood (SAGE) collected laboratory data from 400+ newborns in Nicaragua. Camilla cleaned the lab data and merged it into RedCAP. (PIs: Dr. Sylvia Becker-Dreps and Dr. Nadja Vielot.)

Zannas Lab, Fall 2023

Using R, Camilla conducted data cleaning and analysis on patient traumatic response dataset using Tidyverse package. She prepared 5+ tables in R for a paper publication. (PIs: Dr. Anthony Zannas and Dr. Xinming An.) Camilla then took STOR 320: Introduction to Data Science to increase her fluency in R.

Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics (SVSM), Summer 2020

Camilla was a selected participant in the 2020 Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics (SVSM), a research-based program for academically talented North Carolina students who demonstrated an interest in and aptitude for pursuing science and mathematics in higher education and careers. In the program, Camilla conducted research on using data mining techniques to predict Atrial Fibrillation under the guidance of Dr. Cuixian “Tracy” Chen and Dr. Yishi Wang. With her teammates Nihar Thakkar and William Harrison, Camilla submitted their poster to the State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium (SNCURCS).

Honors and Awards

Graduate

• John and Diane Fryer Fellowship in Biostatistics (Fall 2026)
• Harry A. Guess Scholarship (Fall 2026)

Undergraduate

• Emerging Talent in Piano Scholarship recipient (partial tuition merit scholarship)
• Phi Beta Kappa, inducted October 2024
• 1st place, Undergraduate Alpha Competition presenting investment pitch for Costco
• Dean’s List all completed semesters, from Fall 2022 to Spring 2026
• Buckley Public Service Scholar (conducted 300+ hours of community service during her college years)

Undergraduate Learning Assistant (TA)

• Comp 110: Introduction to Programming and Data Science for Dr. Alyssa Lytle (Fall 2023 to Spring 2024)
• English 105i: Writing in Health and Medicine for Dr. Bradley Hammer (Spring 2023)