Lectures on fundamental topics of machine learning, workshops with industry professionalsPlaced 1st in hackathon: tongue twisters for speech therapy using Google Cloud Speech-to-TextCurrently building a mobile application to identify facial emotions from streaming videoExperience using TensorFlow and PyTorch (image classifications, predicting housing value)

Assist 200+ students in tutorials to help students grasp computer science concepts and develop basic computing skillsMark students’ assignments and tests and provide feedback for improvementCourses: Intro to Computer Animation, Programming Paradigms, System-Level Programming

Publication: Ilina, Anna et al. “Patient-specific pediatric silicone heart valve models based on ultrasound.” SPIE Medical Imaging: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 2017 (Accepted)Developed and automated a Python mold generation module for SlicerHeart for creating patient-specific silicone heart valve models for cardiac surgery trainingCollaborated with cardiac researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to have the valves evaluated by cardiac surgeonsPresented research to fellow lab members and visiting guests and at conferencesImplemented open-source treatment planning system (C++, Python) fororthovoltage radiation therapy for skin cancer, with the Kingston General Hospital

Collected and anonymized patient imaging data from the clinical storage systemChecked image quality data for data sets retrieved, sorted data into respective groupsSet up analysis framework for comparing image registration algorithms (Tools used: Python, SimpleITK, SimpleElastix, 3D Slicer)

Performed data analysis procedures on genomics dataApplied bioinformatics to fix and improve pipeline for methylation analysisResearched current software used for metagenomics analysis; chose a method to analyze data, and created a pipeline for a new metagenomics study