Aaron is a National Library of Medicine Pre-doctoral Fellow studying Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Prior to beginning his PhD, he received his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA, and worked as a research assistant in an ophthalmic genetics lab at Casey Eye Institute, OHSU. Although still early in the program, Aaron plans to focus his dissertation work around the utilization of machine learning algorithms for image quality assessment and disease diagnosis, and their implementations in telemedicine applications for the disease retinopathy of prematurity.