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• Managing a system test team responsible for software and hardware verification of MRI system including informal investigatory testing, formal verification and validation, test automation and 510(k) documentation• People management, including conducting 1:1s with direct reports, providing guidance, support and direction to help with planning their career development• Building the team; interviewing, hiring, training and mentoring new and existing employees• Implementing new processes and test methodologies to improve product development procedures• Monitoring and allocating resources across the project

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

* Lead system test activities on medical devices that use Raman spectroscopy, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and visible light imaging* Plan and develop test automation solutions using Python, Sikuli, etc.* Supervise, train, and mentor test team members* Verification and Validation (V&V) planning and documentation of test plan, protocol, and reports * The go-to contact person for any test needs across teams including design, manufacturing and service teams

Toronto, On

* Design, develop, and execute test protocols for software and hardware design validation* Participate in testing complex medical devices including robotic digital microscope, MRI, and advanced optical systems* Take part in hazard analysis activities * Assist development team by providing early testing feedback using exploratory test techniques and by performing root cause analysis when investigating issues* Conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with clinical evaluators

• Worked on quantifying relationship between social interactions and the correlations between two individuals’ physiological signals.• Designed and set up experiments in a hospital lab environment to collect data from pairs of individuals.• Exploited signal processing and feature extraction techniques to clean and extract important information from ECG, electrodermal activity and respiration signals.• Applied statistical methods (FFT, Wavelets, filters, cross-correlations and Granger causality) in Matlab and Python to test correlation and causality between data sets.

• Led a team of three in a Lab-on-a-chip project under the supervision of faculty.• Designed and fabricated microwell channels using soft/photo-lithography methods.• Cultured liver cells in microchannels to study liver function in a realistic environment.

Library Of Princeton University

• Exploited near-field scanning microwave microscopy technique to monitor the free water contentof skin.• Assisted with the experimental design and data collection.• Applied signal processing methods to measure the phase and amplitude differences between emit- ted and reflected microwave signals to quantify the water content in the skin.

• Designed and developed a smart monitoring system for the syringe-vein spatial proximity.• Built a device using a minuscule Infrared camera mounted on a syringe to capture a thermal video of the body before/during injection.• Processed the Infrared images to detect veins and alert the physician as needle got close to a vein.

• Assisted with the development and design of audiometers.• Engaged in testing and maintenance of audiometers.• Provided assistance with the sales and marketing of audiometers and other auditory diagnostic systems.

Master Of Applied Science (M.A.Sc), Biomedical Engineering, 3.7/4.0

Postgraduate Program, Biomedical Engineering, 3.86/4.0

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Biomedical Engineering

Diploma, Mathematics And Physics