Co-facilitator for Designing Making Experiences workshop, aka Introduction to Making (Face to Face) course.

As one of two AbD Oakland Senior Fellows in its inaugural year, I collaborated with the AbD Oakland Leadership Team to coach and mentor a cohort of 30 Oakland educators to help them integrate maker-centered learning into their practices and pursue a personally meaningful inquiry project during the school year. Our team designed, planned, and facilitated monthly after-school meetings, three full day study sessions, and an end-of-year culmination exposition event showcasing each Fellow’s inquiry project. As a senior Fellow, I also more directly provided coaching and mentoring for a smaller subgroup of educators to help them make progress on their projects.

Castilleja School is an independent, all-girls school for grades 6-12 located in Palo Alto, California. The Bourn Idea Lab is the school's makerspace, digital fabrication studio, and engineering/robotics lab all rolled into one. Our lab's philosophy is two-fold: to ensure that every student experiences making and engineering in multiple contexts throughout their Castilleja journey and to provide opportunities for students who want to explore engineering more deeply.As the first director of the Bourn Idea Lab and its associated program, my team and I collaborated with teachers of all subjects and grade levels to design, develop, and implement hands-on projects that are integrated into core subject classes, so that every student experiences making and building during their Castilleja journey. In addition, I designed and taught engineering electives and advised the high school FIRST Robotics team.Throughout my time at Castilleja, I prototyped and implemented a variety of opportunities to engage students and teachers in making, tinkering, and hands-on learning. These ranged from after-school making workshops called Maker Fridays to the Bourn Teacher Fellows program, a yearlong fellowship for teachers to immerse themselves in making. Our satellite space the Tinkering Nook opened in spring of 2017 and offered weekly open tinkering times for our middle schoolers. I also facilitated professional development workshops throughout the school year and hosted an annual summer institute called Design Do Discover in collaboration with Marymount School of New York.

Taught neurobiology and molecular microbiology for pre-professional health academic program

Taught a supplemental instruction course in cell biology for upper division undergraduates, which involved designing an interactive learning environment for reinforcing major concepts covered in the main lecture course.

PhD Advisor: Wendell LimUsed stochastic computational simulations to study how cells polarize, i.e. form fronts and backs, as a self-organizing phenomenon. How do biological systems break symmetry and what are the basic rules driving this process? The rules we discovered not only help us in understanding natural biological systems that exhibit polarization behavior but also guide us in engineering novel biological systems.Also developed CellTracker, a user-friendly software package for automated cell detection and tracking in Matlab. In addition to cell tracking, it calculates a set of useful statistics for the user including speed, direction, straightness, etc. CellTracker is currently being used by multiple researchers in analyzing experimental data involving a variety of cell types.

Scientific mentor for a team of 12 students from Abraham Lincoln High School in building physical models of cell signaling proteins using 3D printing technology as part of the Students Modeling A Research Topic program. Our project was presented as a poster at the 2008 ASBMB meeting in San Diego.

Lab instructor for the introductory course, Astronomy: From the Earth to the Cosmos. This course is intended for non-science majors.

Guest lecturer in the Introductory to Bioinformatics courses which are part of the school's Biotechnology program. Topics covered include: single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), systems biology, etc. For the SNP lecture, this also involved developing several hands-on activities for using online databases containing known SNPs.

Teaching assistant for a class of roughly 40 upper-level undergraduate and incoming graduate students with little programming background. Designed a set of online lessons for the laboratory sessions in order to address the needs of both novice and experienced programmers. Recipient of two teaching awards for this class.

My project was to port a camera-based whiteboard-capturing system to a new platform. Over the span of one summer, the existing software was successfully updated to run on Linux, low-level support code was written to interface with a new camera, and a graphical user interface was designed for system calibration.

Involved in all phases of software development on multiple projects ranging from front-end website development to back-end content management to internal scheduling applications. Also interacted with clients on a daily basis as well as managed a team of engineers during an off-site project.

Lectured and taught the laboratory sessions (~15 students) of an introductory-level computer science course intended for both majors and non-majors. Also taught the laboratory sessions (~25 students) for an introductory-level and an upper-level course in the Electrical Engineering department.

Participated in summer internships in two different groups over a span of two years. In the ComponentWare Software Group, I developed web applications and statistical processing controls using HTML, ActiveX technology, Active Server Components, Visual Basic, and LabVIEW. In the DAQ Hardware Group, I developed a new series of optically-isolated digital input/output data acquisition boards for the PCI and PXI buses.