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Mustang District, Gandakī, Nepal

Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal

• Conduct original ethnographic fieldwork in Tibetan village Lubra to understand cultural impacts of climate-induced Himalayan flooding.
• 3D map flood damages using remote sensing (drones, satellite imagery, photogrammetry, DEMs, and monocular depth estimation).
• Layer digital 3D visuals of flood damages, vulnerable structures, and agricultural terrain with ethnographic data to place them within a cultural context.
• Contribute a data-based report that the community may use to inform… Show more
• Contribute a data-based report that the community may use to inform governmental policies and request relief aid, especially when interfacing with community leaders, policymakers, and NGOs.
• Plan and lead expeditions to Lower Mustang, Nepal.

Nepal

Nepal

• Conduct original ethnographic fieldwork in Tibetan village Lubra to understand cultural impacts of climate change in the Himalayas.

Berlin, Germany

• DAAD RISE Germany Scholar at the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory of Beuth University of Applied Sciences.
• Implemented object detection in Myon, the humanoid robot, using Forth programming language.
• Built and programmed a moving robotic sculpture from scratch for an art exhibit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Concluded my internship with a 30-minute presentation in German.

San Diego, California, United States

• NSF-REU Scholar at Engineers For Exploration of UC San Diego.Project 1: FishSense - An underwater imaging platform for monitoring fish health & population.
• Installed NVIDIA Jetson TX2 for real-time, on-device data processing to solve power and memory issues.
• Deployed prototype at Pacifico Aquaculture fish farm in Ensenada, Mexico. Used collected data to improve training of our fish detection model.
• Publication: "FishSense: Underwater RGBD Imaging for Fish… Show more NSF-REU Scholar at Engineers For Exploration of UC San Diego.Project 1: FishSense - An underwater imaging platform for monitoring fish health &.
• Publication: "FishSense: Underwater RGBD Imaging for Fish Measurement"Project 2: Mangrove Monitoring - Calculating mangrove biomass with machine learning.
• Tested SR-AE, SRCNN, EDSR, and WDSR neural networks to improve super-resolution of low-res satellite images.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Campus-wide software and hardware support; equipment checkout for faculty and students
• Printing 3D models and digitizing physical media

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Led office hours to facilitate a non-intimidating learning space for students, graded homework/exams/projects, and assisted students during class.
• COMP 221 - Algorithm Design & Analysis: Course support for 25 students; grading 10+ assignments/week
• COMP 123 - Computer Concepts in Python: Course support for 50+ students; grading 25+ Python assignments/week

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

• Developed a mobile app using Google Cloud Platform to assist students in finding their classrooms on-campus. I led backend development in a team of four others.

Vancouver, Washington, United States

• Structural framing, electrical, carpentry, painting, machinist, demolition and heavy lifting.
• Worked full-time over summers.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, Data Science, Cognitive Science, 3.9

Activities and Societies: Honors, Summa Cum Laude, QuestBridge Scholar, Jan Serie Research Fellow

Nepal: Tibetan & Himalayan Peoples Program, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow

Education record

Activities and Societies: Full-time Running Start program

Education record

Activities and Societies: Summa Cum Laude Weighted GPA: 4.64/4.0

Education record