- Developing novel intelligent surgical tools to maximize neurosurgical tumor resection. We take ideas from needs to translation for the benefit of our patients and their families.- Building on my undergraduate work of developing and implementing a near real time non-contact laser induced endogenous fluorescence spectroscopy device and machine learning pipeline

- During my undergraduate education: - Awarded Barry Goldwater Scholarship for my research- Developed device for non-contact endogenous fluoresce spectroscopy of brain tissue in the Operating Room and neural network to classify the grade of tumor or healthy tissue- Designing novel optical system to combine non-contact spectroscopy with an optical coherence tomography system and ablation laser - Responsible for clinical data collection in operating rooms

President of the Duke Chapter of Pi Tau Sigma, the International Mechanical Engineering Honor Society

Teaching Assistant for EGR121 Engineering Innovation

Bolted Bolts, Soldered Wires, Wiped Mirrors, Pointed Lasers, Scribbled Math, and most importantly Met PagerSummer 2022

Undergraduate Liaison and Board Member, MRS@Duke. Only Undergraduate appointed to the board.

tannerzachem.com. Worked in multiple industries ranging from Snowboarding and Action Sports to Fitness and Life Event Photography. Completed national assignments for Snowboarder Magazine. Published photos in TransWorld Snow.

Product design and engineering.

Engineered an adaptive shirt with an integrated position detector circuit for children who are non verbal. By integrating conductive fabric into the shirt, the custom circuit board informs support staff when a child has moved from the desired position. Won the No Barriers 2019 Global Impact Challenge and received $5,000. With this money the design was refined and a small batch was produced for distribution.

Lead development for a cross platform mobile Flutter app for organizing and optimizing signing up and using the service, targeting college students on 12 campuses. Developed both the UI/UX and the backend communication with a new firebase server

Created content for marketing and social media. Redesigned website in the Summer of 2017.

Created TrafficWare Synchro traffic models for LaGuardia Airport for analysis and drafted an AutoCAD drawing of midtown Manhattan for a study to be conducted at Hudson Yards and One Vanderbilt Plaza.

Assisted in research and implementation of the ClassMode Application