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London, Ontario, Canada

• Leading 3 end-to-end research projects over the past 2 years on emotion and human performance
• Secured $17,500 in research funding from the NSERC CGS-M scholarship based on research potential
• Collected data from 50 participants using behavioural measures, surveys, and eye-tracking
• Increased participant recruitment rates by 100% using participant databases and flyers
• Analyzed datasets of over 1.6 GB using R, Python, and SPSS
• Presented findings at 3 conference presentations

• Project: HabitZone
• Used evaluative research to identify usability issues in the app design
• Collaborated with UX researchers to create a usability testing plan that aligned with user goals
• Conducted usability testing of 6 participants to test the usability of the core app functions
• Analyzed qualitative data using thematic analysis to identify pain points and directions for improvement

• Utilized agile and evaluative research methods to collect data about potential users to inform design personas
• Designed and executed a survey to investigate pain points of users of mobile mental health applications
• Performed data curation and analysis of survey data of 60 respondents
• Collaborated with design and product management teams using Figma to drive research progress

Ontario, Canada

• Used iterative design to develop an open-source catalog of over 190 neuroscience tools on GitHub
• Performed semi-structured interviews of 22 researchers to gather information on various data curation tools
• Implemented fluid data management of all tools using Microsoft Excel
• Presented catalog to internal stakeholders and external stakeholders at Roche Canada
• Conducted focus groups to identify areas of concern on changes in recruitment policy
• Expanded on pre-existing Powerpoints to create summary PowerPoints of the Integrated Discovery Program Brain-CODE data releases

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Supervisor: Dr. Robert Rozeske
• Discussed articles related to the neuroscience of fear, social dominance, and psychopathology in lab meetings
• Created DeepLabCut pipeline in Google Collaborate to analyze mouse movements
• Produced DeepLabCut documentation for other lab members to utilize
• Presented and created slide deck to demonstrate DeepLabCut pipeline to other lab members
• Optimized efficiency of DeepLabCut pipeline by over 900%

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Thesis Supervisor: Dr. George Cree
• Executed literature reviews on current neural network models of person perception
• Created a neural network in Python to model how media influences impression formation
• Performed manual object recognition on 1000 images to generate neural network training patterns
• Conducted data analysis and visualization using Python
• Experimented with learning rates, hidden units, and optimizers in a neural network using Tensorflow and Keras

Toronto, Canada Area

• Supervisor: Dr. Cendri Hutcherson
• Conducted 3 studies studying how predictability influences impressions of morality and trustworthiness
• Performed literature reviews on impression formation
• Designed experimental surveys on Qualtrics
• Completed data manipulation and analysis of over 300 participants using R
• Collaborated and brainstormed with internal stakeholders about computational modeling, framing effects, dual process models, and effects of attention on decision making

Master Of Science - Ms, Neuroscience

Honours Bachelor Of Science (With High Distinction), Neuroscience