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Irvine, CA, US

• President of an organization of 400+ high school students. Hosted 30+ events, 10+ faculty lectures, and 3+ national outreach initiatives. Oversaw a team of 7 board of directors.
• Worked closely with UCI administration to identify disparities in access to neuroscience. Led a team of 70+ volunteers to create a summer neuroscience curriculum for underserved students.
• Spearheaded event for Dana Foundation Brain Awareness Week, reaching 150+ community members and 60+ new K-8 students.
• Presented a poster on our work improving high school neuroscience education at Society for Neuroscience 2024 (world's largest neuroscience conference)

• Only high schooler amongst 20 undergraduates selected nationwide for this paid, NSF-sponsored program
• Combined machine learning with Gene Ontology, an emerging bioinformatics tool, to create a Random Forest Classifier with ~81% accuracy to predict biological factors involved in early-onset Alzheimer’s.
• Identified 5 novel Alzheimer’s-linked biomarkers and genes.
• Created poster and gave an oral presentation at capstone symposium to 150+ faculty.

• Developed a Random Forest model using Gene Ontology to classify Autism-linked genes with ~85% accuracy.
• Webscraped online genetic data from AmiGO 2 to create a comprehensive database of ASD etiology to train and test the model.
• Utilized GOnet and Scikit-learn feature importance to map out and identify 6 novel ASD-linked genes, which are now used in clinical practice to diagnose ASD.
• Created an interactive webpage showcasing results and presented research at LEARNMEM 2023 conference.

• 1 of 20 under-18 interns selected to intern at the CHOC Medical Intelligence and Innovation Institute (Mi3)
• Brainstormed solutions to current-day healthcare problems through innovation challenges about racial bias in healthcare, the limitations of robotic surgery, and the ethics of nanotechnology.
• Worked with cutting-edge medical technologies like AI for diagnostic imaging and wearable medical devices.
• Gained insights into healthcare logistics and operations through direct engagement with CHOC's Chief Operating Officer and Chief Human Resources Officer.

• Programmed an operant chamber based on the LBN paradigm using the MED-PC V software.
• Developed and implemented a testing protocol to investigate early-life adversity in mice models.
• Contributed work to a paper published in Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience.

• Used Beautiful Soup to parse, filter, and web scrape 70,000+ news articles.
• Applied VADER (natural language processing), Spacy (sentiment analysis), and Linear Regression to conduct a content analysis on how political bias impacts climate change media coverage.
• Presented poster on how our results align with Framing theory and Agenda-setting theory

• Developed an original online testing platform to study the ideal consolidation period to optimize spaced repetition and learning.
• Self-taught game development and graphic design skills to create an engaging, data-driven testing apparatus, incorporating an adaptive scoring system, timed tasks, periodic obstacles, and 7 unique levels.
• Used JASP to conduct ANOVA to identify statistically significant results.
• Recognized at Orange County (1st place) and California (Finalist) Science Fairs

Bachelor Of Science - Bs

Education record

Leadership: Class Council, Elected TA Representative, Northwood South Asian Student Association (Publicist) Sports: Division 1 Varsity.