My name is Taylor Ferebee and I am currently a Senior Data Scientist at Corteva Agriscience.  In 2024, I completed Computational Biology Ph.D. Student at Cornell University under the supervision of Dr. Edward Buckler, where I held a USDA NIFA-AFRI  predoctoral fellowship for my work. I am fascinated by the use of mathematical language to understand the immensely complex systems that govern gene expression across plants. My Ph.D. thesis focused on learning representations of regulatory elements for cross-species modeling of gene activity. In my both my past and current work, I borrow heavily from topics in graph neural networks, representation learning, bioinformatics, and interpretable machine learning. My other passions include trivia, Clemson football, podcasts, and the advancement of Black women in computational biology and applied mathematics.