Insight is a competitive post-doctoral training fellowship designed to bridge the gap between academia and data science.• Developed a web app powered by Python and Flask to guide college and university graduates through difficult career transitions, emphasizing unique talent combinations.• Implemented a topic-modeling algorithm to surface uncommon career paths based on similarities in duties and skills to common paths, and to guide the user through the development of missing skills.

Makers of the Muse meditation headband—best-in-class brain sensing technology embedded in consumer wearable devices.• Recognizing a gap between consumer demand for high-quality, comfortable sleep technologies and today's state-of-the-art, I worked with a small team to design, prototype, and manufacture a soft-material reinvention of the Muse headband, which launched as Muse S in 01/2020. The rapid, successful development of this product demanded interdisciplinary expertise to reach solutions in soft material-electronics integration, pattern drafting, industrial sewing, and manufacturing process development. • To ensure laboratory-quality capture of difficult-to-acquire brain signals (with their small signal-to-noise ratio), I facilitated direct and continuous collaboration with our algorithm research team to drive hardware design.

Endeavour research fellowships are awarded by the Australian government to fund high-impact, short-term international research collaborations. • Observing a void of comfortable solutions for preventing positional sleep apnoea events, I designed and prototyped a wearable device that combines inertial measurement and audio analysis to detect apnoea events and prompt position shifts in at-risk adults.• Separately, to validate the accuracy and clinical robustness of a novel, inexpensive sensor for kinematic measurement during gait, I developed and validated an algorithm to assess knee angle estimation error.

The PRISM Lab specializes in developing custom assistive technologies to fill gaps between what exists and what is needed for a child to engage with their world.• To enhance communication opportunities for children with unique physical and postural constraints, I designed, fabricated, and tested a headband in-clinic that incorporates fabric electrodes to allow non-verbal youth to communicate using eye blinks.• Recognizing a need for portable solutions to monitor brain activity, I engineered textile-based electrodes to measure brain activity and to differentiate brain states in healthy adults.

Engineering Strategies and Practice is U of T’s largest engineering course, with first-year students in all disciplines taking part (~1000 per session).• To bridge the gap between technical knowledge and the execution of real-world engineering projects, I guided an annual cohort of ~60 engineering students through client-serving design projects, teaching the fundamentals of engineering design, project management, and technical communication.

A United Nations-funded teaching fellowship developed by Rice University (Texas, USA) to enhance undergraduate and graduate-level education in biomedical engineering, driving the sustainable development of in-country expertise to support Ethiopia’s rapidly expanding medical infrastructure.• To support the launch of Jimma’s new biomedical engineering department and to establish local expertise, I developed curricula for and instructed three upper-year engineering courses while concurrently training local instructors on teaching methods that incorporate hands-on design and experiential learning.

Masters student in Biomedical Engineering at U of T working in the Bloorview Research Institute

Managed tutorial session for a first year design course. Delivered practical lectures in seminars, confidently addressing questions and concerns.

Participated in lab work analyzing ocular pressure in rabbits. Assisted in research and lab work related to the the modeling of ankle bone and joint mechanics to predict fracture patterns. Aided in translation of several papers and presentations.

Prepared and supervised labs for a third and fourth year course entitled “Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology”.