Sydney Weiser Email & Phone Number

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

Scotts Valley, California, Us

Doubled client engagement metrics by identifying, designing, and developing new features for our innovative product, by collecting and evaluating client feedback and engagement metrics.Established processes to accelerate developer and client support workflows, resulting in 5x faster deployment and releases and enabling the client support team to serve 10x more clients.Directly managed half the company's full time employees across multiple continents, with team members in Customer Support, Plant Science, UX/UI, Full Stack Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Data Science, and Machine Learning Engineering.Managed team roadmaps, projects, and resources as part of the leadership team.

Scotts Valley, California, Us

Built out cloud infrastructure to deliver growing post processing analyses.Experimented with research partners to develop custom metrics to determine value of data in predicting stress.

Scotts Valley, California, Us

Prototyped various IoT devices to find features which were most valuable to our local customers.Developed cloud backend to support sensor data upload.Designed database and cloud architecture to support data upload and customer requirements.

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

Ackman Lab:Development of analysis software suite for whole-cortex optogenetic recording of spontaneous neural activity during development.Developed lab's analysis (Python) from ground up to perform tasks such as statistical computations and filtering of underlying sources of variation in data, compute wavelet analysis to compare timecourse coherence, etc.Quantified and optimized recording signal quality based on extracted metrics.Developed Independent Component Analysis (ICA)-based filtering method for superior removal of noise from imaging data, and parcellation of the cortex into discrete functional units.

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

Brooks Lab:Applied statistical analyses to determine significance of RNA splicing alteration events in cancer.Built local application for browsing splicing variations in multiple cancer types, with easy interaction with underlying datasets and viewing individual splicing event distributions using Bokeh.Feldheim/Litke Lab:Developed interactive virtual reality platform for studying visual processing in the mouse superior colliculus.Acquired, processed, and calibrated velocity measurements from a mouse on a suspended rotating ball to provide intuitive navigational feedback for maze navigation through API interface.Quantified learning and memory through mouse improvement navigating maze through multiple trials in the VR platform.Sher Lab:Developed in-vivo multielectrode protocol for recordings in rat visual cortex.Processed and analyzed data aligned to visual stimulations to determine features of individual cortical neurons' visual responsiveness.

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

Development of High Resolution Visual Stimulation System:Designed a lens system that collimates projected stimulation videos while optimizing resolution, maximum light transmitted, and compactness of the stimulation system.Modified the projector GUI’s C++ source code to alter light linearity properties.Created a custom adjustable, removable mount for the visual stimulation system.Calibrated the projector to equalize photoisomerization rates induced by the green and UV LED.Mapping Functional S Cone Connectivity:Conduct ectrophysiology experiments on custom 512 electrode planar array.Dissected mouse eyes to produce healthy retinal tissue used for recordings.Processed data, classified types of retinal ganglion cells, and immunostained the retina.Wrote Matlab code to analyze the distribution of S cones within ganglion cells receptive fields.Matched the S cone distribution in S-opsin immunostains to the spatial functional UV sensitivity.Retinal Plasticity after Selective PhotocoagulationTook confocal images of immunofluorescent retinal tissue to measure changes in retinal structure.Examined dendritic structures of bipolar cells and location of glutamate receptors.Wrote Matlab code to analyze healing and plasticity of retinal tissue after photocoagulation (see publication)

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

Worked 10-20 hours per week during the school calendar year.Manager on duty for large campus fundraiser events.Designed and implemented extensive staff training program, including full table service trainings and tests.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Biomedical Science And Engineering, Designated Emphasis In Statistics

Bachelor Of Science, Physics, Mathematics, Language Studies-Chinese

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