Aleidy Silva Email & Phone Number

Emeryville, Ca, Us

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

• Generate, oversee and approve editorial content for special issues, literature highlights and podcasts. • Assist the Editor-in-Chief with editorial planning.• Review manuscripts submitted to the journal.

Singapore, Sg

Emeryville, Ca, Us

• Oversee the expansion of the Applications Team in the West Coast.• Determine team’s Objective Key Results, track metrics and establish FAS processes to provide excellent customer support and drive the business forward.• Qualify, train, and support customers using BLI platforms to develop single cell assay workflows.

Männedorf, Zh, Ch

Männedorf, Zh, Ch

• Served as a subject matter expert in all platforms and specific applications to provide pre-sales and post-sales support, identified product development and marketing opportunities, and recognized industry trends for business development.• Designed and proposed system configurations to address customer’s technical requirements, provided product demonstrations, technical presentations and trainings, and provided technical guidance to the sales force in support of pre-sales activities.• Assisted customers in troubleshooting, diagnosing, and repairing platforms in support of post-sales activities.

• Identified unmet medical needs by shadowing and interviewing physicians at UCLA Medical Center, and translated these needs into product design, implementation and development opportunities. • Mentored students on developing innovative solutions to identified needs, from conceptualization to prototyping.• Served as a liaison between physicians, students, academic, clinical and industry mentors, potential investors and business partners.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Directed a retrospective study analyzing the data of patients undergoing standard treatment for multiple myeloma, and validated a method for optimizing and periodically adjusting the drug combinations prescribed to liver transplant patients over the duration of their treatment.• Conducted a clinical pilot utilizing the technology described above to optimize and continually adjust the drug combinations prescribed to liver transplant patients.• Assisted the development of an optimized drug combination for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma, and the development of an optimized combination of three nano diamond-modified drugs and one unmodified drug, aimed to increase the therapeutic window between three different breast cancer cell lines of varying resistance profiles and their control cell lines.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Conducted literature research, planning, execution of experiments and data analysis across different biological systems such as cancer cells, tuberculosis infected macrophages, and stem cells. • Collaborated with a multi-disciplinary team of researchers across different departments resulting in the optimization of 10 different drug combinations aimed to treat multi and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in an in vitro model; two of these combinations were successfully validated and further optimized in an in vivo model.• Efficiently managed a Biosafety Level 2 tissue culture room with more than 10 regular users.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Directed and taught two hands-on laboratory sessions per week, each of 12 students, at the Nanofabrication Research Facility (NRF).• Designed, proctored and revised weekly quizzes for more than 50 students.• Verified and optimized the fabrication process to be followed by the students, two months prior to course implementation.

• Aided the organization of the Inventathon, a 24-hour healthcare hackaton with over 250 participants, and served as a technology judge.• Mentored teams participating in the Venture Team program and competition, a program aimed to help UCLA faculty and staff to identify the commercial viability of different research projects.• Participated as staff in the Advancing Women in Science and Engineering (AWISE) STEM EmpowHer day, intended to motivate underprivileged middle school girls to pursue STEM related careers.

• Mastered the fabrication process of a microfluidic device overcoming limited resources and accelerated timelines.• Optimized the microfluidic device fabrication process by increasing the fabrication yield over 400%.• Established a collaboration between the microfluidics research groups at the current research institution and alma mater.

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• Characterized a micro cantilever designed to detect glucose levels in blood, analyzing the device’s mechanical, thermal, electrical and piezoresistive properties through numerical simulations. • Proposed and implemented the acquisition of new software aimed to increase simulation capabilities, due to of limitations in previous simulation software.• Collaborated with the Chemistry Department and the School of Medicine to assess the potential glucose detection methods for our device, and participated in two sponsored summer exchange programs at UCLA to acquire and apply different micro fabrication and characterization techniques.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Characterized the manipulation of micro and nano particles through the use of a DEP-based system.• Conducted literature research, planning and execution of experiments, troubleshooting and data analysis in an independent manner. • Simulated different properties of the experimental setup using COMSOL Multiphysics software.

• Scheduled and followed up on the preventive maintenance routine for biomedical equipment and bioinstrumentation.• Rotated through the operating room during procedures to assist medical staff with use of biomedical equipment.• Initiated a collaborative internship program between CIMA and ITESM, to offer Biomedical Engineering students the opportunity to gain hands on experience.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Biomedical Engineering