Co-Founder and Biomechanics Lead of Immergo Labs at Immergo LLC. Our mission is to redefine physical rehabilitation telehealth for therapists and patients through off-the-shelf virtual reality headsets. Immergo was inspired by a multi-year research effort at University of California Santa Cruz in co-designing immersive VR games and tools for physical/occupational therapy. Now we are developing an accessible platform with AI-enabled biomechanic tools for virtualized physical rehabilitation clinics and exercise activities.

Worked on a consulting project to help phone app company label phone motion capture data for vehicle activity recognition so they could expand their feature set for users.- Utilized CNN and LSTM models to achieve 65% accuracy.- Improved on this with XGBoost One vs All approach increasing accuracy to 83% accuracy.- Manually labeling data was extremely time-consuming, 8 hours to label 30 minutes of data. This can now be done in 10-15 minutes saving time and resources for the company.

OpenButterfly - Conducted research focused on the development of a virtual reality (VR) physical therapy game. • Machine learning model streamlines biomechanical data processing and eliminates need for expensive data capture systems, enabling a more affordable physical therapy solution for remote therapy. • Developed a Tensorflow LSTM model for runtime estimation of physical therapy metrics. • Used Python, Pandas, and SciPy for data processing of measured biological signals during study. • Programmed in Jupyter Notebook to demonstrate progress to colleagues. • Trained model on remote servers and clusters using Slurm and Torque job schedulers. • Conducted user testing of longitudinal 8 week trial. • Biomechanical simulation of gameplay to estimate joint angles, joint torques, and muscle force production.Cave vs HTC Vive – Compared two different immersive VR systems for mentally impaired and healthy users. • Results were published to help researchers understand which VR assistive technology is most suitable to users of varying cognitive ability. • Python scripting for data processing, cleaning, and syncing of biological measurements, including heartrate, perspiration, and brain activity to study user response to different VR gameplay. • MATLAB was used for statistical analysis and creating figures for the journal paper.

Responsibilities for the Introduction to Python course:- Wrote bash scripts to expedite grading of python programming assignments for 200+ students. - Cover course material in lab sections.- Debug students' code and help with their programming.Responsibilities for the Computer Systems and Assembly Language course:-Wrote Python scripts to expedite grading of 300+ students.-Facilitated four 120-minute lab sessions per week.-Assisted students in targeted subject areas.-Contributed to a friendly and productive learning environment.-Collaborated with fellow Teach Assistants to prepare lab instruction.-Graded exams.Topics consisted of digital logic, number systems, data structures, compiling/assembly process, the basics of system software, and computer architecture.

- Participated in the NSF I-Corps, a program centered around learning from and understanding the needs of potential users/customers in order to better translate academic research into a system for public use.- Interviewed 130+ people in the physical therapy industry during the seven-week program to understand the needs of telehealth and the feasibility of academic research translation for immersive virtual reality physical therapy.- Trained in the startup business model lean launchpad method by Steve Blank.

- Performed quality testing of high-precision mechanical designs to ensure specifications/tolerances were met.- Analyzed mechanical quality of components used in MRI machines, surgical robotics, aerospace systems, etc.- Quality assurance of AutoCAD designs to ensure product functionality.

-Designed a high-speed treadmill to measure ground reaction forces for physiology research-Controlled high voltage DC motor to maintain high-load performance using Excel VBA-Performed FEA using AutoCAD for mechanical performance analysis-Conducted human testing research to ensure mechanical design specifications were met-Setup data acquisition system using force transducers-Journal article published in Medical Engineering and Physics

Responsibilities included (for Human Anatomy Physiology course at UMT):-Lectured on topics to be covered for the week.-Instructed four 90-minute lab sessions per week.-Structured sections to facilitate student collaboration.-Assisting students in targeted subject areas.-Contributing to a friendly and productive learning environment.-Collaborating with Instructors to prepare lab material.-Grading exams.Topics consisted of micro and macro tissues, bones, and nervous systems.

-Trained clients with a variety of goals including weight loss, continued rehabilitation, strength training, competition, and sport specific movements.

-Trained clients with a variety of goals including weight loss, continued rehabilitation, strength training, competition, and sport specific movements. -Instructed youth class for high school athletes.

Prepared, tested, and analyzed various quarry and oil mixes to aid in road construction planning.