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Corpus Christi, Texas, United States

Corpus Christi, Texas, United States

Sell-side associate research analyst responsible for coverage on ~23 companies in a diverse range of fields including rare diseases, RNA therapeutics, gastrointestinal, neurological, renal, and infectious diseases. Created and updated financial models using Excel and VBA, including regression analysis of patient revenue.Quickly and effectively evaluated.

Hanover, NH

Created neural network and machine learning architectures on heterogenous social media data (multilingual texts and images) from Reddit and Twitter to understand and characterize mental health in individuals and populations. Awarded Teaching Assistant Fellowship for QBS 108: Applied Machine Learning: 3 Semesters.

Corpus Christi, Texas, United States

Services we offer include machine learning consulting, NLP data extraction and analysis, data mining, formatting, analysis, webscraping, assay development, experimental design, and statistical pipeline development.

My thesis research fully funded through the NIH Bridges to Doctoral Program at Texas State University with Dr. Steve Whitten focused on developing molecular models of disordered protein structures to understand quantitatively the molecular basis of key aspects of development, aging, and disease.

Austin, Texas Area

Scholarship and research position funded by R25 Bridges to the Doctorate Program (GM102783). Professional development aimed at admission into a top-tier biomedical research PhD program. Allowance of funding for living expenses, full paid tuition, and freedom from teaching responsibilities for my final year of undergraduate/first year of Master's.

Houston, Texas Area

Summer internship. Work in Dr. Fuli Yu's lab on computational analysis of genomic data in order to understand patterns of genomic diversity and evolutionary divergence in the X chromosome of humans and Rhesus Macaques, using Python, R, awk, and UNIX terminal. Also attended daily seminars from Baylor College of Medicine faculty, weekly classes on genomics.

San Marcos, Texas

Though the oscillating diurnal dependence of the concentration of endogenous hormone melatonin is well mapped, the expression of the receptors on which this evolutionarily ubiquitous sleep regulating molecule acts is not. I started with a simple question; do the melatonin receptors in the zebrafish also show a time dependent expression? Simple question led.

San Marcos, Texas

Tutored Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Mathematics in a public, walk-in collaborated tutoring center, as well as private tutoring for Texas State University Athletics program. Topics include Organic Chemistry, Calculus, and Mechanics.

San Marcos

Laboratory Assistant for General Chemistry I at Texas State University. Organized pre-lab lectures, proctored exams and quizzes, held office hours, and graded assignments.

San Marcos, Texas

Privately tutored Organic Chemistry I & II to individuals with the JAMP program. Created problems to solve and work through, and evaluated student need and understanding of material.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Quantitative Biomedical Sciences

Dissertation: "Machine Learning Methods in Social Media Analysis with Applications in Mental Health" T32 Big Data 2 Knowledge NIH.

Master’S Degree, Biochemistry

T32 Bridges to PhD NIH Fellowship, Awarded Biochemistry Graduate Student of the Year

Bachelor'S Degree, Biochemistry, Applied Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Men's Choir, Math Club, Texas Stream Team Water Quality Monitor, Chess Club