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Redwood City, CA

Extracting company- and customer-facing insights from biometric signals and app usage data

Palo Alto, CA

• Recognition of physical activities using Athos smart clothing (embedded EMG-sensors)
• Engineered a feature set to quantify dynamic muscle activity from 8-D time series
• Built models (SVM, Random Forest) to classify 5 different physical activities with 86% accuracy
• Produced a source-code-linked report describing my approach and results (marksena.me/insight/blog-post)

San Francisco Bay Area

• Research­ grade movement analysis for sports­ medicine professionals and patients
• Spun out a 3­D motion analysis company based on graduate work with the Kinect
• Wrote a winning SBIR / STTR grant for the company
• Led team to win the “I​dea to IPO”​ business plan competition (Steve Burrill)
• Conducted >100 consumer interviews during the "L​ean Launchpad"​ (Steve Blank)
• Won "B​est App for Patients and Healthcare Professionals"​ at Hacking Health

San Francisco Bay Area

• Low­-cost 3­D movement analysis using the Microsoft Kinect and retro-reflective markers
• Invented a method for tracking the position of anatomical markers using the Kinect
• Developed an OO framework in MATLAB for processing data streaming at 1.3 Gb/min
• Implemented computer vision algorithms for segmentation and labeling of markers
• Tracked anatomical joints with 10x greater accuracy than Microsoft’s markerless method
• Produced a provisional patent for a 3­D motion tracking system using infrared markersMethod and apparatus for quantitative assessment of dynamic knee joint stability

San Francisco Bay Area

• The effect of insulinoma cell cluster size on C-peptide expression
• Microfabricated PDMS stamps for microcontact printing of laminin protein
• Chemically modified glass surfaces for controlled culture and patterning of insulinoma cells
• Performed 4-color staining and spinning-disk confocal imaging to quantify C-peptide expression

San Francisco Bay Area

• Hacking the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer as a power supply
• Configured, tested, and troubleshooted “lab-on-a-chip” micro-electrophoresis equipment
• Wrote a manual and developed protocols for custom use of the 2100 instrument

San Francisco Bay Area

• Engineered phage-based piezoelectric materials
• Generated a new class of periodically-aligned self-assembled phage film microstructures (later published in Nature)
• Amplified and sequenced genetically engineered M13 phage in e. coli for materials applications

Greater Seattle Area

• Applications of Nanotechnology in Medicine
• Developed a microbead-based microfluidic assay for fluorescence detection of HIV nucleic acids
• Prepared fluorescent quantum dots for disease diagnostics, medical imaging, and drug delivery
• Characterized nanoparticles via fluorescence microscopy, spectroscopic, and particle-sizing techniques

Greater Seattle Area

• A Quantum Dot-Based Microfluidic Immunoassay
• Improved the sensitivity of an existing fluorescence-based protein assay using quantum dots
• Implemented the assay in a microfluidic platform for sample loading and optical quantitation
• Performed fluorescence microscopy, multispectral and surface plasmon resonance imaging
• Designed and built microfluidic chips using poly-laminate plastics and AutoCAD software

Greater Seattle Area

• Silica-based HIV RNA extraction for point-of-care viral load testing
• Characterized currently available products for viral RNA extraction from human serum
• Identified and tested alternative, low cost materials for in-house RNA extractions
• Designed and tested a filter unit for RNA extractions without the use of a centrifuge

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Bioengineering And Biomedical Engineering

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