Helen Salinas Email & Phone Number

Bellflower, CA, US

Supported the Lead Coordinator in planning and executing Grad School 101 workshops throughout the academic year.Polled mentees to identify key topics of interest, recruited 3-4 mentors for each panel, and coordinated event scheduling.Collaborated with mentors to prepare curated panel questions based on mentee feedback, ensuring smooth event flow.Co-hosted.

Michaelson Building, USC

My project focuses on guiding surgeons in the operating room when cancerous margins are unclear. I conducted a thorough analysis of nanoparticle characteristics, including size, concentration, zeta potential, conjugation potential, optical profile, fluorescence, and Raman spectra. The optimized size of liposomal nanoparticles significantly enhanced tumor.

South San Francisco, California, United States

In my role as an intern, I helped debug MATLAB code for the detection of ciliary beating across various image file types, showcasing proficiency in leveraging programming skills to enhance analytical processes. Additionally, I demonstrated hands-on expertise in culturing and maintaining organ-on-chip platforms, to actively contribute to developing.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Designed VBA Excel tools to organize experiment results by categorial values saving users one hour per sheet
• Wrote MATLAB code to build and test ~1500 statistical models predicting amino acid concentration given Raman spectra: successful models were able to predict real-time concentration within one standard deviation

Los Angeles

Working with the CED has allowed me to obtain multiple roles– Mentor Program Coordinator: Establishing a network of minority upperclassmen mentors to be paired with 60+ incoming freshmen to promote a culture of campus collaboration and outreach. Viterbi Summer Institute Resident Advisor: Managed a residence floor and organized daily team - building.

• Designed Python scripts to analyze bioluminescent group data to streamline the analysis by cutting down 2 hours from data analysis for each experiment
• Automated bioluminescent data analysis utilizing Python to collage and crop images from multiple directories saving users 3-4 hours per run in experiment
• Implemented programs into department by training senior staff on how to run and customize code

Los Angeles

Los Angeles

-Collaborating with team to create the idea of a mobile TENS unit to help amputee's pain management of chronic residual limb pain-Analyzing current representation to establish a need and understand its current place in the medical device world

-Communicated with department supervisors and colleagues for tasks and special projects on a weekly basis -Responsible for maintaining international database with over a million contacts on Filemaker Pro for national ShakeOut! drill which dates back 10 years-Corresponding with national seismologists to retrieve their earthquake drill participant count to.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Biomedical Engineering

Master'S Degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering