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Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

• Developed and coded 2 autonomous hauler and excavator prototypes using C++ and Python to increase efficiency by over 60% compared to remote control vehicles.
• Working under the guidance of Dr. Erik Westman, Dept. Head of Mining Engineering, to use technology such as LiDAR and Indoor Positioning System to have the vehicles map out and identify their surroundings.
• Presented to CASERM Symposium to showcase our progress and learn from other teams around the US.

• Developed a web scraping program in Python to automatically download 100s of government documents.
• Analyzed documents using NLP topic modeling (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) to identify trends.
• Visualized topic modeling results through inter-topic distance mapping using pyLDAVis.
• Presented results with teammates to 2022 National Security Institute Colloquium.

Farmington, Connecticut, United States

Worked with the Immunology division under the supervision of Dr. Karolina Palucka to help in the analysis and visualization of cellular data from humanized mice using the software FlowJo. Applied this data analysis to further catalyze the development of novel immunotherapies in further research.

Supported the community by developing an optimized survey platform for the Boys and Girls Club of Hartford, enabling over 45% more feedback collection. Collaborated with Foodshare and World Central Kitchen to enhance community outreach. Gained insights from industry leaders at the National Leadership Summit Conference.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computational Modeling And Data Analytics, Senior

Activities and Societies: Society of Women Engineers, VT Junoon Fusion Dance Team, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

General Studies