• Investigate neural mechanisms to syllable invariance patterns in speech using encoding models to quantify electrical signals from fMRI scans and intracranial electrode scans.• Mentored by Dana Boebinger (PI: Samuel Norman-Haignere)

• Research cellular structure, tendencies, and movement of transparent microglia cells to understand cellular mechanisms through computational modeling and analysis.• Mentored by Jesse Schallek

• Researched the ALS causing C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat by identifying a near cognate start codon;piloted data analysis and visualization pipeline in R.• Mentored by Xin Jiang and Sandeep Aryal (PI: Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne)

• Observed team in development of datalens, an R based open data analytics, portal to advance Alzheimer’s disease research by enabling the analysis, visualization, and sharing of -omics data.

• Selected by members of the faculty and mentored by Dr. Shimaa Ghazal and Anne Rankin• Successfully mapped a full genome sequence for a strain of the mosquito species Anopheles Gambiae, a leading host for the parasite that causes malaria.