Rachel has been with BenevolentAI for about 1.5 years as a Senior AI Scientist. She was recently promoted to AI Lead for Target Identification where she works to shape the strategy and application of AI to support drug target identification for preclinical drug development. She has a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Houston and then spent 2 years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory working as a science applications software engineer before earning her PhD in Computational Biology from New York University. In her spare time she currently enjoys riding the NYC ferry and planning for her upcoming wedding in September