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Boston, MA, US

Somerville, MA

Watertown, MA

• Standardized routine data analysis by designing and implementing Figure and Analysis classes, reducing turnaround time by 50%, ensuring reproducibility, and enabling testing of analytical methods.
• Collaborated closely with software engineers to develop and enhance tools to standardize data access and workflows, resulting in high-quality datasets and reducing data sourcing and accessing time by 90%.
• Distilled complex, large-scale NGS datasets into clear, actionable visual representations and reports that advanced the goal of establishing a high-throughput manufacturing platform for generating high-quality viral.
• Designed experiments, developed new data generation methods, and produced reports that improved manufacturing techniques by 25%.

Boston, MA

• Created data models to inform predictive modeling efforts, create data templates, and centralize data storage so they can easily be queried and imported into PostgreSQL databases.
• Implemented Benchling and LIMS schemas and methods for data extraction to enable data visualization dashboards and to enhance analytical workflows.
• Built data integration packages to clean, standardize, and consolidate biological performance data of engineered microbes from in vitro and in planta studies, producing high-quality datasets and advancing the goal of.

Boston, MA

• Supervised a 3-person team of bioinformatics graduate students to analyze ~538M next-generation DNA sequencing reads from 13 soil microbial community replicates grown on 2 carbon sources (18 total runs) using Python
• Created core metabolic models of 5 bacterial strains in MATLAB; used these metabolic models to predict nutrients exchanged between the bacterial strains in the soil microbial community replicates
• Developed a mixed integer linear program in MATLAB to predict division of labor strategies in microbial communities under 100+ simulated conditions; publication resulted in an increased understanding in how to engineer.
• Performed linear regression and feature selection in MATLAB to classify ~600 yeast strains based on growth in ~70 different environments; this mixed integer linear program enables biologists to perform less phenotype.

Boston, MA

Boston, MA

• Wrote and tested 5 laboratory manuals and grading rubrics to redesign junior-level course teaching the fundamentals of biomedical measurements
• Won recognition as the best TA out of ~100 in the biomedical engineering department in 2015

Boston, MA

• Created “NoveList”, a web app that predicts a Goodreads user’s want-to-read book ratings, enabling them to prioritize what to read next
• Built, trained, and evaluated a collaborative filtering recommender system in Jupyter Notebooks with scikit-surprise, pandas, numpy, and seaborn
• Deployed “NoveList” using streamlit and Heroku

Boston, MA

• Headed and trained teams of 15-20 multidisciplinary graduate engineers to organize 1-2 events each month, increasing the number of events held each year by 50%
• Created workflows in Trello, an agile development platform, for each event; each workflow created historical data of the event and enabled detailed oversight by the executive board

Cleveland, OH

• Prepared recitation lecture material and quizzes for classes of 30 undergraduates

Cleveland, OH

• Submitted a research proposal and received an undergraduate research grant
• Built and applied spatial (CAR, Laplacian) and frequency (EEG Rhythm) filters to 32-electrode EEG in MATLAB
• Analyzed frequency plots (short-time Fourier transforms)
• Developed latent Dirichlet allocation and regression models to determine if statistical differences exist between four hand grasp force levels

Ms, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, 3.86/4.00

Activities and Societies: BU Microbiome Initiative Students and Postdocs Committee, Student Association of Graduate Engineers (SAGE).

B.S., Biomedical Engineering, 3.88/4.00

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Phi Omega, Alpha Eta Mu Beta, Varsity Track and Field, Varsity Cross-Country, Symphonic.

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, Varsity Track and Field, Varsity Cross-Country, Band• Class.