Proposal Title: Discovering Digital Phenotypes of Childhood Internalizing Disorders for Point-of-Care DiagnosticsResearch Scientific Objective: Develop a digital health approach for assessing childhood anxiety and depression. By developing the digital health technology to identify anxiety and depression in young children, I aim to improve availability, sensitivity, and effectiveness of childhood mental health assessments.Research Output Objective: Facilitate broad access to mental health assessment for young children so that they can be directed to care when it has the highest chance of long-term success.Intellectual Merit Aims:(1) Leverage machine learning to discover digital phenotypes of childhood internalizing disorders(2) Develop a framework to optimize system architecture for cross-domain digital phenotyping (2a) Validating digital phenotyping platforms for this population can directly improve transdiagnostic digital phenotyping technologies overall through robust opensource feature extraction pipelines and validation frameworks.Broader Impacts Aims:Raise awareness on digital health toolkits for childhood mental illness detection, triaging, and intervention by...(1) Directly coordinate and conduct public speaking engagements to educate a variety of age groups on digital health(2) Design and conduct mini-workshops showcasing and testing the engineered platform(3) Host a small hackathon based on the developed opensource platform for 40 K-12 students

An early-stage Vermont-based startup focusing on providing tools for screening and support to parents and providers navigating early childhood mental wellness. Find us at www.biobe.org or on Linkedin.

Focusing on digital epidemiology/social phenotyping projects using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi surveillance for infectious disease transmission reconstruction and socio-behavioral risk analysis.

Collaborating on several research projects tracking COVID-19 spread through epidemiological and genomic data analysis.

Funded via Ryan McGinnis’ NSF Career Grant (Award # 2046440), “Platform for Characterizing Transdiagnostic Markers of Disease from Wearable and Mobile Technologies”Successes: Won first place in the Junior Graduate category at the Larner College of Medicine Graduate Research Showcase in Fall 2021 as a first year PhD student for my presentation on my current project (outlined below). Presented my paper, 'UVM Kid Study: Identifying Multimodal Features and Optimizing Wearable Instrumentation to Detect Child Anxiety', in Glasgow Scotland at the 2022 IEEE Engineering in Medicine Biology Society Annual International Conference.Current Project: "Developing Novel Techniques for Assessment and Digital Phenotyping of Childhood Internalizing Disorders." Abstract: Through the leveraging of signal processing techniques, machine learning algorithms for classifying and categorizing signals from wearable device data, and a developed mobile app designed for our study goals, we aim to isolate physiological measures of stress responses in children that could be used to detect internalizing psychopathy. This area of investigation is not currently thoroughly explored, and thus we aim to investigate novel techniques for assessment procedures and biomarker isolation for this population. Through the Kid Study project, we will be aiming to isolate digital biomarkers using study data collected to develop and discover digital phenotypes, thus working to improve timely childhood internalizing disorders assessment and intervention.Additional Projects: Helping with Neurobotics Lab recruitment and community outreach through 1-on-1 chats with High School Student interested in learning more about the field.

Served as the Entreprenuerial Lead on a team consisting of myself, Dr. Ellen McGinnis, and Fani Maksakuli, in a robust 7-week National Science Foundation I-Corps program. This program is by-nomination and includes a $50,000 federal grant to support research and travel related to course content.NSF Award: I-Corps: A platform for collecting and analyzing biological and behavioral markers of preschool emotional and behavioral health; NSF #2324510

Part-time Independent Contractor and Researcher for data analysis, consolidation, and data model engineering.

Working as an advisor for sensor selection, research design, health analytics, and general start-up growth. https://visionaisolutions.com/our-advisors

In July of 2021, I founded BoTech L.L.C. to provide consulting services to companies for health-related data consolidation, analytics, and prediction tools.

Offered online site via BigCartel.com in which I sold original paintings, prints, magnets, and laptop stickers. I also created a social media following for my business via Instagram. I tracked all expenses, earnings, and information in Excel, as well as monitor purchases and store data on an online dashboard via BigCartel.com.Hired as painting instructor at Colorado Mesa University campus-wide "Mavs after Dark Paint Night".Featured in Literary Review at Colorado Mesa University. (See publications)Highlighted in the 'Spoke and Blossom' Magazine Spring 2020 Issue as one of the "Favorite Instagram Pages".Hired as painting instructor at Colorado Mesa University campus-wide "Sip-n-Paint" Event

After completing two semesters as a Mentor for the International Student Peer Mentorship Program at CMU, I was promoted to Program Coordinator. My roles for this position include...-Planning monthly events and excursions for International Students and their Mentors. This includes financial planning and allocation, resource planning and gathering, and all related communication required for the event with attendees, vendors, and university personnel. -Planning and conducting weekly one hour discussion gatherings called Global Conversations. Some topics that are covered are Gender Roles in different cultures, Veganism and Food in different cultures, Communication across cultures, Values across cultures, among many others, in addition to engaging activities like world jeopardy, game nights, charades, craft nights etc. -Monitoring relationships between Mentors and Mentees to make sure all needs are being met and no concerns arise. If concerns arise, I am the point person for communicating those concerns to the International Programs Director and the additional higher-ups of the program.-Creating a welcoming and comforting atmosphere for incoming and current International Students, as well as Mentors within the program.-Communicating campus-based and local opportunities for International Students and Mentors to get involved in while studying at Colorado Mesa University.-Maintaining consistent communication about and attentiveness to program success, progress, and involvement with Mentors, the International Programs Director, and the general campus community.-These roles are in addition to the roles I will be continuing as a Mentor within the program, which can be found in the Volunteer section.-Managing the Colorado Mesa International Student Mentorship Program Facebook and Instagram social media pages

Assisted in the Introductory Computer Science C++ course as a Lab Assistant for one to two class periods weekly while students studied clean-coding, data structures, and basic algorithms. Tutored outside of class in subjects including C++ syntax, file structures, and data types for two to three hours weekly.

Through RHA, I was the designer and tracker of the Master Budget Spreadsheet. This spreadsheet used several PivotTables via Excel to create a sort of Budget Dashboard for the team. This divided expenditures by project, event, and other distinguishing information. Budget meetings with a Faculty Coordinator were held once a week, on top of all other RHA related meetings, to go over specifically budgets and upcoming expenditures. As the VP of Treasury, I was lead on coordinating all solicitations and fundraising for the organization; including quotes, partnerships, and contracts. There is an extensive documentation process and my signature is required for all organized expenditures.I also created a Pivot Table Dashboard via Excel to track Hall involvement for their Residence Council activities, as well as participation in our events and meetings. This involvement and participation was tracked as "Battle of the Building Points," which was a year long competition that we coordinate to increase involvement and excitement. Students could also earn Battle of the Building Points by joining an RHA-organized committee. We have committees for every event as well as a publicity committee for those students looking to go the extra mile in showcasing campus activities to other students with the help of RHA.I organized and coordinated the first-ever committee for our Sunday Funday Event, which is described in the Project section below. My committee had over 23 representatives from Residence Hall Councils from all over campus. I organized and lead the meetings and on-goings for the committee, as well as allowed the representatives to delegate tasks amongst themselves and make decisions as a team without my involvement as an effort to increase collaboration within the committee.

Conference Assistants (CAs) serve as liaisons between Summer Conference guests and the Department of Residence Life at Colorado Mesa University. Provides excellent experience in leadership, team-building, and customer serviceResponsibilities:-Operate the Summer Conference office-Assist with Residence Life and Admissions with new student orientation-Assist with conference arrivals and departures-Conduct room and building inventories-Serve as an information resource and respond to the needs of conference guests-Participate in staff training and weekly staff meetings-Work collaboratively with colleagues, supervisors, facilities staffs, and guests

Selected to participate in the National Science Foundation funded REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program encompassing research in Smart Environments at Washington State University. Available projects for this program are related to artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, software testing, high-performance computing, networking, distributed systems, health, medicine, etc. This position was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The research project I was recruited to participate in focused on aiding the integration of automatically generated tests into pre-existing manually written test suites. This exploration was completed primarily with machine learning based natural language processing and information retrieval techniques, test case selection approach experimentation, and static/dynamic analysis of Java source code. The overall goal of the project was to develop a methodology for automatic test case selection as well as implement a prototype for this methodology. This position a full time undergraduate summer research opportunity (40/hours per week, 10 weeks).

Selected as one of seven students from across the country to participate in the REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) Site, Software Assurance and Security in Emerging Technologies, at University of North Texas. REU Sites are funded by the National Science Foundation, allowing for undergraduates to get a head-start on higher education research experiences. The program focused on research related to cybersecurity, machine learning, and software testing. My explorations were specifically related to machine learning algorithm optimization techniques, and utilizing a Recurrent Neural Network for text-based sentiment analysis. We also had lessons in encryption schemes, performance of various ciphertext algorithms, and methods for better testing software functionality. The program was 10 weeks in duration, 40 hours a week.

Through the Genesys Works high school internship program, I had the opportunity to earn a year-long corporate internship with the Data Center Operations and Data Center Network Engineering teams at Target HQ.I assisted in communication, coordination, and implementation of major changes and events within Target Technology Services and Data Center Services. I worked closely with project managers, technicians, as well as engineers, integrating a new Project Management tool, NinJira, into day-to-day project planning as well as long-term tracking of team efficiency and project completion.I also worked on a variety of other tasks pertaining to Data Center inventory and status monitoring of Data Center-based and store-based devices through the use of online applications and physical walk-throughs.

Genesys Works is a multi-part program geared for high school seniors to get their foot in the door of major businesses within the sphere of technology. To obtain the corporate internship you must first complete the summer internship training program. This is an 8 week summer program focusing half on technical/computer knowledge growth and half on a business curriculum.The topics covered and tested on within the technical course are Microsoft Office Suite, basic computer structure/set up, Windows OS configuration, baseline networking fundamentals, and introduction project management/scrum.In the business component we practiced and evaluated on our knowledge/ability of effective workplace communication, catering speeches to a specific audience, business etiquette, stress management, and corporate values.