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San Carlos, California, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

- Cancer immunoengineering research at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research under Dr. Michael Birnbaum- Designing high-throughput library-based platforms (capable of assaying hundreds-of-thousands of engineered proteins) at once to optimize signaling paradigms in engineered T cell immunotherapies for cancer- A semester of teaching experience via teaching assistantship for Laboratory Fundamentals of Biological Engineering

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

- Year-long research fellowship awarded through the Fulbright Program at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) under Dr. Michele De Palma- Project: Assessing Extracellular Vesicle Internalizing Receptor as a novel tumor vaccination platform

Greater Seattle Area

- Summer internship in the advancement of CAR T cell therapies under Dr. Julie Shi- Working to advance non-viral gene delivery platforms for CAR T cell manufacturing

Seattle, Wa

- Three quarters of TA experience: Biotransport (BIOEN 325, Autumn 2017), Introductory MATLAB Programming (BIOEN 217, Winter 2018), Failure Analysis and Human Physiology (BIOEN 345, Spring 2018).- Duties include leading small quiz sections, labs, and review sessions; proctoring exams; holding regular office hors; grading exams, homework assignments, and lab reports; and occasional lectures and curriculum planning.

Seattle, Wa

- Fall 2016 to Summer 2018: Independent cancer immunology research under the guidance of Dr. Suzie Pun. Duties include experimental design, execution, and presentation. Project: Cell-templated supported lipid bilayers for artificial T cell activation.- Spring 2015 to Fall 2016: Tissue engineering research in Dr. Ying Zheng's lab. Projects: Design of single-channel microfluidic in vitro arteriole model.

Cambridge, Ma

- Full-time summer internship at the MIT Sea Grant College Program through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship- Design and testing of a convolutional neural network-based image recognition algorithm for automated stock assessment in fisheries management- Investigated the incorporation of bioelectric field measurements to improve accuracy of algorithm- Experience with scripting in Python, C

Lausanne, Switzerland

- Full-time summer internship through the EPFL's Summer Research Program in the EPFL's angiogenesis and tumor microenvironment lab under Dr. Michele De Palma- Project: Mechanistic characterization of dendritic cell-based cancer immunotherapy- Techniques: mammalian cell culture, retroviral transduction, flow cytometry, MACS cell separation, CFSE T cell proliferation assays

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Bioengineering And Biomedical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Bioengineering And Biomedical Engineering