As a Clinical Innovation and Design fellow, I worked with a team of students to identify clinical needs by doing observations at the Dell Children's Medical Center Pediatric Cardiology Department and the Dell Seton Medical Center Adult General Surgery Department. After identifying a need, we developed and tested several prototypes addressing the need and prepared an operating plan to take the medical device to market.Need: A faster way to initiate extracorporeal support in patients suffering from cardiorespiratory failure in order to reduce hypoxic brain injury and death.

Serving as a graduate teaching assistant for BME 303, Introduction to Computing. This course teaches introductory computer science principles to students, using the C++ and Python programming languages.

Molecular modeling of neurotransmitter transporters

Tutored multiple students in programming (C++ and Python).

Lead intern for STEM-Away's bioinformatics transcriptomics pipeline. Developing an educational R-Shiny app over the course of the summer that shows the transcriptomics process.

Researched NanoBret, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, and exosome imaging.

The Cleveland BME Alliance (Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University) hosted a 10-week virtual internship where participants viewed seminars about the research of prominent biomedical engineers. In addition, participants engaged in a 10-week design competition where we developed open-source mask additions to improve the quality of masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.