Mary Ahern

Mary Ahern holds a Master of Science in Nutrition and is a Registered Dietitian. She is currently a Nutritional Sciences Ph.D. student under the mentorship of Dr. Sridevi Krishnan. Her research focuses on understanding the dietary, biological, metabolic, and lifestyle differences in individuals with obesity and other chronic conditions. This, understandably, involves a lot of data. Her dissertation work involves integrating all of this data with her expertise in nutritional sciences, biostatistics (her minor), and data science by leveraging machine learning, multivariate modeling, and multi-omic techniques to enhance our understanding of human variability in response to diet. Fun fact- see if you can tell which part of my head shot is AI generated (hint- only half of my hair is from the original photo)!