Evaluate business models of pharmaceutical industries and non -profit organizations developing drugs-Spearheaded data collection, processing and visualization on multiple projects at the intersection of science and business-Analyzed large datasets from pharmaceutical regulatory (e.g. FDA, ClinicalTrials.org) sources with Excel and R.- Quantified trends in clinical trials behind all new drug approvals in the last decade (2010-2019)- Analyzed finances, management strategies and product development strategies of non-profit drug development organization such Global Alliance for Tuberculosis- Produced research that informed legislative policy change surrounding drug development for neglected tropical diseases

•Fostered women-focused professional development events for 20-40 participants on virtual platform•Empowered young prospective women scientists by engaging and mentoring high school students on navigating through STEM careers

• Spearheaded fMRI processing pipeline for 5000+ fMR images including brain extraction, alignment and statistical analysis identifying key brain regions in songbird brain involved in learning and memory•Led a 10-person collaboration with senior scientist and undergraduate researchers to develop and document study protocol for fMRI data from 50 pair of birds improving access, communication and organization resulting in 300K funding from NIH•Predicted learning outcomes by analyzing neural activity from 5000+ neuroimaging data with general linear model (R and SPM) • Applied ANOVA, linear mixed-effects, and General linear modeling in R for visualization & analysis pipelines to deepen insight into animal behavior for 3 papers • Wrote > 10 R Markdown scripts for mixed effect model and visualizations (R programming; nlme; emmeans) leading to 2 publications • Communicated results to different audiences in 5+ scientific conferences, 3+ peer reviewed scientific journals • Experienced in data wrangling using tidyverse (R studio), data visualization (ggplot2) and statistical analysis (R studio)

Led a team of three graduate researchers to investigate role of dopamine receptors in learning and memory Designed and created lentiviral knockdown viral particles for songbird dopamine receptors

• Developed and modified scientific documents including 3+ abstracts, 5+ presentation slide decks, study proposals and numerous research Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)• Applied t-tests and ANOVA using SPSS to identify change in protein expression invivo and invitro• Recruited and taught mammalian cell culture, recombinant protein expression, confocal imaging and image analysis to 2 PhD students, 5 +undergraduates and 2 technicians

• Owned experimental design, data collection, analysis and interpretation for a 5-year long research project identifying protein-protein interaction in mammalian cells • Conducted literature search and reviewed 1000s of research articles to design a research proposal• Created 10+recombinant DNA constructs; over expressed proteins of interest in insect cells and purified to evaluate protein-protein interaction using far-western blotting technique

Taught English to 2-5 grade kidsMentored highschool kids regarding career optionsTaught Biology to highschool kids