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* Created effective classification models for core business of medical diagnosis. Compared methods including boosting, Bayesian models, and neural networks.* Upheld stakeholder interests and clearly communicated technical details while working remotely in a team.* Won grant by passing competitive interview process.

San Francisco, California, United States

* Led development of a successful machine learning edge device prototype and shipped it to clients.* While working remotely, implemented and deployed cutting edge probabilistic machine learning techniques.* Managed and added features to both the front-end and the back-end of the customer-facing web app, including PostgreSQL database.* Updated REST API and managed distributed cloud services (AWS).

Greater Pittsburgh Area

* Used various engineering and machine learning techniques, such as dimensionality reduction, Kalman filtering, and regression, to process and analyze neural data from electrode array-based BCI experiments.* Spearheaded lab code refactoring effort emphasizing reuse, consistent style, documentation, and organization.* Effectively communicated complex ideas through data visualization, presenting at journal clubs, teaching review sessions as a TA, and volunteering for a high school science outreach program.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Marlene Cohen Lab - vision, attention, population coding, neuronal correlations.* Implemented Gaussian fits for receptive fields and mapped contrast, spatial frequency, and temporal frequency tuning in a visual cortex experiment.* Performed cross-correlation analyses on neural spike train data with jitter correction and normalization.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Aaron Batista Lab - sensory feedback, brain-computer interfaces, motor and somatosensory systems.* Quantified the effect of vibrotactile feedback for assisting BCIs by analyzing hand reaching trajectories.

Performed research on and wrote undergraduate thesis about the neuronal control of eye movements, at Pablo Blazquez's lab at Washington University in St. Louis. C-SURE acronym: Cognitive, Computational and Systems Neuroscience Summer Undergraduate Research Experience.

St. Louis, Mo

Finished 2 research projects for course credit under supervision of Franklin Zaromb and Henry L. Roediger. Project 1 – the misinformation effect and films. Project 2 – memory for word lists. Ran student subjects through experiment, analyzed data with SPSS, and wrote a paper draft.

Master'S Degree, Neurobiology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Biology (Neuroscience); Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience)