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- Implemented new software features allowing laboratory cleanroom users to detect anomalies in their cellular processing. - Created dashboards displaying information from lab equipment.- Took software from user validation stage to a released feature. Designed software specifications around user requirements.- Completed a data warehouse refactoring project, merging years of paper data into our laboratory data workflow.- Improved legacy software to run more efficiently and with less room for user error.- Designed and tested software to comply with GMP requirements and pass FDA audits.- Maintained applications hosted on-prem and decreased outages through monitoring alerts and automation.

I worked on computational projects studying brain physiology of patients with treatment-resistant depression via fMRI. I wrote image processing pipelines in Matlab which led to new insights in group classification, and automated experiments with Python, which standardized the data and prevented human errors.

Managed several Linux servers, including a 12-node Beowulf compute cluster, web server, and network storage array, and trained users to run their analyses in parallel.Designed and built new lab webpage using custom Javascript.

Pittsburgh, Pa

Web and database development using FileMaker Pro, website development in PHP and Javascript. Some back-end management of Windows Server/IIS.

University Of Pittsburgh

Worked under supervision of Dr. Zhi-Hong Mao to develop a system for detecting eye saccades and blinks through a wearable EEG headset to create an eye-tracking keyboard, which allows paraplegic patients to communicate using regular consumer devices. Independently developed support vector machine in Matlab Simulink , for saccade direction recognition. Publication submitted to IEEE Workshop.

Pittsburgh, Pa

Working with Matlab and ImageJ to develop a novel method of quantifying neuronal connectivity in the motor and sensory cortices of the mouse brain.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Design Hub, Pitt Student Technology Focus Group

Design

ART 125: Basic Design: 2-D Foundations