Stuart is currently a PhD candidate at Northeastern University for BioEngineering. He focuses on nanopore sequencing technologies applied across a variety of biological applications, including but not limited to RNA modifications, Alzheimer’s disease, and tRNA. While Stuart’s current path has taken him into the academic world, he spent 10 years as a chef in California, working in Italian and Spanish fine dining. Stuart has also developed a lifelong passion for tutoring, whereby he can help people learn new skills and share knowledge. His approach involves breaking down problems of any complexity into their component pieces before building them back together to solve the original problem with a new toolkit. He loves tutoring math, biology, and chemistry, and he has extensive expertise in statistics, genomics, and bioinformatics that he can use to support extracurricular or academic projects. Additionally, Stuart tutors for the SAT, and he has even been known to take practice tests for fun from time to time. In his free time, Stuart enjoys cooking, statistics, and board games. Additionally, Stuart has been known to have riveting, edge-of-your-seat philosophical debates with his dog, Massi.