Thesis work: Mechanisms of neural stem cell aging, single-cell drug discovery to target neural stem cellaging, applying neural stem cells as a therapeutic for Alzheimer’s disease• Side Projects: Single-cell sequencing to find air pollution’s impact on brain aging, single-cell sequencingof exercise’s impact on brain aging, developing in vitro cell culture models for neural stem cellresearch, single-cell sequencing of human epilepsy patient brain samples• Successfully proposed and obtained diverse research funding to independently fund entirety of PhD(NIH T32, F31 & AFAR scholarship) in addition to helping write a successful R01 grant• Delivered multiple oral and poster presentations• Mentored and led small team of undergraduates, some of which have received prestigious ProvostResearch Fellowships for their work• Acted as lab manager by overseeing daily lab activities, ensuring compliance with safety standards andleading safety trainings, performing onboarding and training for new hires, and ordering reagents• Oversaw and managed entirety of mouse colony; performing genotyping and created transgenicmouse strains• Organized major events (T32 Cell-Cell Communication Symposium & T32 Catalina Retreat) with over 50attendees

• Assisted the improvement of throughput and reproducibility by incorporating automation andinnovative technologies• Drafted Key Documents: authored several Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to facilitateadvancements in team capabilities.• Collaborated with multiple teams such as automation, process development, others to optimizeanalytical development processes• Performed literature reviews and summaries on recent developments in CAR-T for team

• Involved in a multi-disciplinary R&D start-up for creating 3D printable self-healing synthetic tissuemodels for surgical training simulations• Performed experiments involving chemical material synthesis followed by material characterization(tensile strength, compressive strength, etc.) for successive material improvement• R&D work resulted in the renewal of two Department of Defense grants to their next phase, the startof a collaboration with University of California, Los Angeles to develop models for tracheotomies, andthe adoption of surgical models at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital• Work also led to poster presentation

· Performed genome-wide association screen in Drosophila to identify genetic modifiers of ovarian stem cell function followed by experimental validation

• Involved in a cross-disciplinary effort to create a synthetic tunable photonic camouflage material-based on a protein in squids• Biochemically synthesized and purified protein for biochemical and electrochemical property analysis