Ian is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology and a member of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Columbia University. Clinically, he is Assistant Director of the NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia Cellular Therapy Laboratory and an Attending Physician in Transfusion Medicine and Cellular Therapy.

Ian studied mathematics, molecular biology, and bioinformatics at Amherst College, where he wrote an interdisciplinary thesis about the molecular evolution of RNA interference pathway components. He then completed M.D. and Ph.D. training in the University of Pennsylvania Medical Scientist Training Program. His Ph.D. in Genomics and Computational Biology advised by Arjun Raj involved developing experimental and computational systems biology approaches to studying post-transcriptional gene regulation and engineering cellular identity. Ian then moved to Columbia/NewYork-Presbyterian for research-track Clinical Pathology residency training followed by Transfusion Medicine fellowship at the New York Blood Center and Columbia. Throughout residency and fellowship, Ian conducted postdoctoral research at Columbia. He initiated independent collaborations with Yogesh Goyal about gene regulatory networks and then joined the lab of David Ho, where he built expertise in virology and adaptive immunity.

Outside of science and medicine, Ian loves taking his toddler on adventures around NYC, cooking, and learning languages.