Shikha Patel Email & Phone Number

• Direct a chapter with 45 members with visionary leadership, fostering excellence, innovation, and inclusivity to drive member growth and community impact
• Dedicated to advancing our community to new pinnacles of influence and relevance while upholding core values
• Inspire a diverse membership with ambitious goals through strategy and transformative action

• Lead a series of cutting-edge workshops including Appathon with ~100 guests & facilitate connections between members, alumni as well as industry leaders
• Cultivate connections through collaborations with brands like Celsius & expanding innovation in the business community while elevating the chapter’s campus presence
• Design developmental systems focused on enhancing members’ skills in leadership & critical thinking aligned with industry trends

Merced, California, United States

• Facilitate discussions with 150+ students per semester on challenging course material
• Collaborate with graduate students & faculty for an efficient learning experience for students
• Independently direct office hours independently to clarify doubts
• Implemented pedagogical knowledge in a higher education STEM setting

Merced

• Conducting research in deep learning & medical imaging analysis
• Experimenting with various self-learning algorithms to find the most robust systems applicable to disease diagnosis

• Leverage geophone sensor technology to investigate directional patterns for various excitation sources
• Skillfully assemble and calibrate sensors, employing multiple high-precision data collection methods
• Spearhead data processing and analysis, unveiling meaningful insights through advanced statistical techniques
• Engage in workshops, seminars, and discussions with professionals from diverse backgrounds to foster innovation and explore emerging technology

Merced, California, United States

• Created machine learning models to solve problems pertaining to the discovery of 200+ small-molecule inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 by using Python & RDKit in Google Colab on real-life data
• Collaborate with various data science teams to implement debugging & optimization techniques for COVID-19 vaccine data

Livermore, California, United States

• Greet customers & share product knowledge and personal recommendations
• Provide outstanding customer service and supervise multiple areas of the store
• Manage financial transactions

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Applied Mathematics- Computational Biology

Activities and Societies: Alpha Kappa Psi, Society of Women's Engineers

High School Diploma