• Worked on development of cyborg chemical-sensing product for detecting hazardous materials, with work contributing to 4 publications, one open-source design.• Codeveloped innovations in surgical processes, decreasing duration by 80%, improving success rate by 250%.• Developed odor-trail VR system; designed and conducted experiments studying locust olfactory-navigation strategies.• Led development of 2-chamber, VR Trackball systems for testing electrodes and implantation approaches.• Communicated project updates in biweekly meetings with multidisciplinary collaborators from 3 different labs.• Mentored junior graduate, undergraduate researchers.

• Originated SOP documentation, facilitating of onboarding of new lab members.• Instituted revised safety procedures, leading lab to 100% safety compliance during 2022 lab inspection.• Coordinated lab hazardous and restricted material handling and safe disposal.

• Pioneered primate visual foraging task studying modulation by reward probability.• Collected and analyzed eye movement data from over 190,000 trials in MATLAB, leading to a publication. • Performed extensive literature searches contributing to behavioral model development.

• Tutored students through all stages of the writing process from initial outlines to final revisions.• Assisted with diverse clients with a range of challenges, including English tutoring for ESL/ELL students, technical and scientific document preparation, and humanities essay development.

• Researched methods to polymerize sorbitol for use as a biorenewable feedstock for plastic production.• Achieved over 30% improvement in reaction yield by developing technique using molecular sieves.