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Jersey City, Nj, Us

-Founded a gaming studio building digital card games that empower players with creator tools leveraged by blockchain and GenAI-Acquired a web3 brand (Sneks; $150k market cap) with established community & marketing channels (Discord: 10k, Twitter: 30k) to catalyze product development & go-to-market strategy-Led development & launch of a decentralized app (dApp) that generated $10k in annual revenue

-Led the Community & Gaming departments for a gaming startup through zero-to-one launch-Implemented a data-driven user incentives program to grow the community and all marketing channels by 300%+, resulting in 10k+ sign-ups on the website-Secured partnership deals & represented the company on outreach, including being hosted on X Spaces (fma Twitter) to audiences of 1k+ people-Assisted the team in setting up user data analytics

-Started an e-learning platform to tutor and teach STEAM subjects to students in middle through graduate school.-Created an interactive online course where 100+ pre-college students learned programming (Python) by building a simple video game, which was licensed out to a learning center servicing 10k students in Northern California.

-Developed a prototype wearable gut sensor to explore digital health solutions that empower people with chronic gut disorders to live healthier lives.-Conducted an at-home clinical study with FDA guidance (14 participants) to validate the prototype and test concepts, detecting digestive events with 90% accuracy.-Preliminary insights resulted in a pivot to partner with others in the industry to aggregate a larger gut data repository that will train future AI models.

Hoboken, Nj

-Managed a clinical research study at a health tech startup partnered with Stanford Medicine to investigate an objective pain assessment product using sensors and machine learning.-Improved Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) data quality and patient recruitment by 150% via remote collaboration with the clinical team.-Built a data pipeline using open-source APIs and identified 6 features from biosignals that can assess pain levels in infants.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) during training has been shown to enhance learning, a process known as targeted neuroplasticity training (TNT). We established this paradigm in marmoset monkeys, showed acute plasticity in auditory cortex, and with the behavior team showed it can accelerate learning a new 'language' (Mandarin tones) by up to 30%. -Established the first SOPs of a marmoset monkey model of VNS.-Identified biomarkers to monitor electrode status and map out stimulation 'dosage' profiles.-Showed auditory cortical neurons tune to a new, target frequency after a passive TNT session.-Made key contributions to the behavioral study design and training a new student to work on the project.-Managed the lab's regulatory compliance, equipment install/repairs, and purchasing/accounting (>$200k)

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Could vibrations in the gastrointestinal tract modulate the gut-brain axis as a form of treatment? I conducted proof-of-concept studies to find out, by testing the effect of gastric vibratory stimulation on vagus nerve activity in rats. Side projects: -validated a transgenic mouse model to target vagal sensory neurons-explored a novel gut-cerebellum neural circuit using anatomical tracers in transgenic mice-tested vagal transport of prion-like proteins from the stomach to the brain in mice, which is one possible pathophysiological origin of Parkinson's disease-developed a customized 3D-printed tissue culture system for a patch-clamp experiment

New Brunswick, Nj

Developed two computational models that informed development of a perfusion system to treat fatty livers for transplantation, resulting in two publications.

Skillman, Nj

Developed protocols with diffuse reflectance spectroscopy to improve the accuracy of testing SPF of sunscreen products.

Master Of Science - Ms, Biomedical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Professional Development Program, Teaching Assistant (Neuroanatomy, Instrumentation Design), BME Student Council.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biomedical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Co-founder RU BioEngineering Society, Innovative Senior Design Fellowship, Peer Mentor (Calculus), Intramural.