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Cupertino, Ca, Us

Cupertino, Ca, Us

- Overseeing up to 60 undergraduate research assistants, regularly scheduling and hosting lectures on various methods in current neuro-scientific research, and training them to participate in meaningful research.- Managing all internal lab operations, including handling all equipment, as well as policies and procedures.

University Of California Santa Barbara, California, United States

• Actively engaged in ongoing on-campus research towards using computational modeling of human behavior, cognition and perception to build bio-inspired computer systems. Aiding in the studies and current research being conducted by graduate students while simultaneously pursuing projects.• Currently investigating the potential use of AI in the field of medical imaging, training various models on simulated images and observing their behavior through extracting feature representations, neuronal activations, and other dynamics.• Extensive use and work with various deep learning models and their application to computational neuroscience research in a meaningful way.

Mountain View, California, United States

- Supporting the setup and management of data warehouses, while ensuring data integrity and accessibility for analytics purposes and assisting with the development of ETL processes. - Writing automated scripts that employ Airflow to keep data pipelines efficient and working with databases to manage and organize data effectively, while implementing APIs to support front-end querying requirements.- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate data from various sources, utilizing dbt (data build tool) to manage and version control SQL transformations, enabling reproducible data workflows in order to create comprehensive business intelligence reports which provide actionable insights for shareholders and internal groups.

University Of California Santa Barbara, California, United States

Working as a volunteer at JPF Analytics, a joint program between Carnegie Mellon University and JPF (a 501(c)(3) non-profit), researching COVID-19 and its impacts on society, particularly in India. Wrote a chapter of the official policy report about the spread of misinformation during COVID-19. This policy report was leveraged by the Government of India to define pandemic response policies.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Psychological And Brain Sciences + Statistics And Data Science, 3.9

Activities and Societies: Vision and Image Understanding Lab, UCSB Dhadkan, College of Letters and Science Honors, Letters and Science.

3.9

Activities and Societies: Speech, Journalism (El Estoque), Band (Flute), Badminton (Varsity)

2021 Summer Session, Cognitive Science, 4.0

Learning about human cognition and how neurobiology connects to what we perceive in the world.