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Durham, Nc, Us

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Building AI infrastructure and novel algorithms for Drug Discovery and Strategic Data & Insights initiatives.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Mentored and taught graduate and advanced undergraduate students in BME 590 - Generative AI for Protein Design. Focused on methods and applications for protein engineering, covering topics such as large protein language models, contrastive learning architectures, and deep learning frameworks (Lightning, PyTorch, CUDA)

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Fine-tuned protein language model on more than 70,000,000 sequences from NovaSeq data of AAV capsid libraries injected into mice or applied to human tissue samples to develop a method for efficient viral engineering to achieve conditional tissue tropism.Developed analysis pipeline to elucidate AAV gene shuffle with optimal performance by utilization of probability distributions, k-means clustering with RAPIDS, and biophysics-based embeddings on 750,000 experimental data points in Python.Jointly advised by Aravind Asokan, Ph.D. and Pranam Chatterjee, Ph.D.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Mentored undergraduate biomedical engineers in BME 244 - Quantitative Physiology and Biostatistical Applications, focusing on mathematical derivations of heart, muscle, and blood flow mechanics, along with the development and de-bugging of Python statistical data modules and examination grading.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Transitioned Duke University's Biomedical Engineering coursework from MATLAB to Python for BME 244 - Quantitative Physiology and Biostatistical Applications and BME 301 - Bioelectricity courses, including both grader and student copies for over 100 hours of both coding and mathematics questions.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Analyzed the effects of several clinical-grade Adeno-associated viral vectors for the treatment of Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy in mice via behavioral analysis, sectioning, immunohistochemistry, biostatistical analysis, and Western Blotting, among other methods.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Bioengineered novel HEK293 AAVR cell line for analysis of novel gene therapy treatments for inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) using adherent and liquid cell culture, plasmid preparation, luciferase assay, and ddPCR, among other techniques.Optimized engineering process for virus design by developing a novel convolutional neural network algorithm to identify optimal viral candidates out of 1.3 billion peptide insertions.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Led laboratory sections of 20 electrical engineering undergraduates, developing and grading 6 robot design tasks in ECE 110 - Fundamentals of Electrical and Computer Engineering, teaching robotics development in Arduino (C++), and troubleshooting both code and circuit design.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Solved limitations of older retinal imaging techniques by developing and improving one-photon light sheet microscopy, a novel imaging technique with high temporal and spatial resolution, leading to publication.Performed over 100 hours of neural activity analysis for Ph.D. mentor of retinal ganglion cells through the use of a custom-built MATLAB-constrained non-negative matrix factorization for endoscopic data (CNMFE) algorithm.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, 3.91/4.00

Activities and Societies: --- • Duke EyeServe Founder and President • Engineering Student Government CFO • Duke Student Government.

High School Diploma, 4.0/4.0

Activities and Societies: --- • Government Club President • FCA President • National Honor Society Officer • Beta Club Treasurer • Math.