- Certified as an MRI technician, collected brain imaging data for four clinical studies. Performed 4-5 MRI/PET scans weekly. Set up scanning sequences (functional or structural MRI) based on the study protocols- Investigated anatomical changes in basal nuclei associated with Huntington's disease in 400+ study subjects with FreeSurfer (brain imaging software) and MATLAB- Authored two step-by-step standard operating procedure manuals and a problem set aimed to introduce trainees to… Show more - Certified as an MRI technician, collected brain imaging data for four clinical studies. Performed 4-5 MRI/PET scans weekly. Set up scanning sequences (functional or structural MRI) based on the study protocols- Investigated anatomical changes in basal nuclei associated with Huntington's disease in 400+ study subjects with FreeSurfer (brain imaging software) and MATLAB- Authored two step-by-step standard operating procedure manuals and a problem set aimed to introduce trainees to clinical trials, scanning process, data transfer procedures, basic shell scripting- Trained two new research technicians and a summer intern- Attended virtual two days long training sessions about changes in the study protocols and presented all the information to my research group in two 15-minutes presentations- In a team of 3, cleaned up the MRI and PET data of 800+ subjects collected across 3 study sites- Manually quality checked automatically-generated anatomical auto-segmentation of thalamic nuclei in structural MR images for 200 study subjects- Directly communicated with patients with Down's Syndrome, Huntington's Disease Show less

- Worked with Professor Max Bi and his Theoretical Soft Matter and Biophysics Group to understand the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition process- Studied images of cultured human lung epithelial cell monolayers with MATLAB- Used MATLAB to segment cell boundaries for 2000+ cells per image

- Supervised four groups of 10-16 students- Calibrated lab equipment, prepared equipment for the experiments- Assisted students with data collection, data analysis, and scientific report writing

- Assisted at Professor Swastik Kar's Laboratory for Graphene Research- Proposed a project to investigate the length of bonds in the hexagonal lattice structure of graphene-like 2-dimensional crystals grown in the lab- Took images of the materials using SEMs- Analysed and mapped hexagonal structures of the material in MATLAB, measured and calculated an average length of bonds between atoms- Wrote reports using LaTeX

- Designed a short-term internship at Professor Yee-Wen Yen's Green Material Laboratory at NTUST- Assisted three graduate students with their research papers in English, edited their papers- Investigated the interfacial reactions between lead-free Solder/Cu-2.0Be (Alloy 25) Couples- Prepared materials, quality controlled experimental samples with the scanning electron microscope (SEM)

- Worked with a team of researchers and developers to build and maintain trading applications using MATLAB- Proposed and designed UI and a user response system for users unfamiliar with coding- Built MATLAB toolboxes

- Developed a robotic warehouse system for inventory storage and e-commerce orders fulfillment in a team of 7- Independently analyzed customer inventory database of over 100K stock-keeping units in MATLAB and presented findings to the team and customers- Tested order-fulfillment algorithms for over 200K orders. Built 3D visualizations of the fulfillment process in MATLAB

- Held tutoring sessions for non-engineering students- Successfully communicated complex lecture material to students of various backgrounds