Employing microfluidic technology, next-gen sequencing, and synthetic biology to engineer a biosensor platform for the highly sensitive and specific detection of toxins in waterDesigning and installing a demonstration scale algae-based wastewater bioremediation plant at a local dairy to recycle water and generate bioenergy

Developed a commercial wearable display based on the patented iOptik™ platform to enable mobile augmented realityDesigned custom microlens arrays to redirect and expand display light to fill the pupil at all eye rotationsProcessed microlens arrays into transflective diffusers to serve as the transparent spectacle lens and projected image screenPrototyped a pupil tracking system using contact lens-based reflectors to customize content delivery based on gaze directionDeveloped a process to orthogonally integrate nanowire-grid polarizers into telescopic scleral contact lenses

Developed the Sense4Baby System, an FDA-cleared smartphone-based wireless cardiotocograph for monitoring maternal/fetal heart rate in high-risk pregnanciesInvestigated portable disposable biochemical assays to enable infrastructure-independent healthcare

Developed a microfluidic electrochemical detection platform for inexpensive home monitoring of chronic diseasePrototyped a hollow microneedle patch using high aspect ratio molding techniques for transdermal sampling of capillary blood

Engineered metabolic networks in cyanobacteria to produce specialty chemicals and biofuelsIdentified and overexpressed novel genes to develop improved photosynthetic strainsGenerated intellectual property and authored UCSD Invention and Technology Disclosures

Systems Biodynamics Lab: Jeff Hasty, Principal InvestigatorInvestigated synthetic gene regulatory networks while working towards my Ph.D. in BioengineeringDeveloped microfluidic platforms for investigating single-cell biodynamics in the model organisms S. cerevisiae and E. coli

Group 31: Ballistic Missile Defense Systems and AnalysisDeveloped a precision motion-based discrimination algorithm to characterize missile threatsRan Optical Signatures Code to generate high-fidelity IR signatures of threat scenariosSimulated potential attacks based on classified intelligence reports of enemy threat capabilities

Group 36: National Missile DefenseSummer Undergraduate Research Program participantDeveloped a stretch processing algorithm to meet data reduction requirements as part of the Upgraded Early Warning Radar risk reduction effortProvided onsite pulse compression capabilities during Ionosphere Data Collection at Thule, Greenland

Summers 1998 & 1999Increased factory efficiency by designing and constructing an electronic dye dispensing systemConverted control from sequenced relay logic to Allen-Bradley PLC-5 ladder logicDeveloped a touchscreen interface for integration into global automation and monitoring softwareDocumented the system hardware configuration and electronics layout in AutoCAD

1997 National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates program participantOperated an atomic force microscope to acquire angstrom-resolution topography images of ceramic thin films