≻ Designed and built organ-scanning software to provide quantitative feedback on surgical operation outcomes to surgeons-in-training, based on scans from internally-developed and -built scanning hardware• met with stakeholders, consulted scientists and medical experts, and reviewed published literature to identify project needs and chart development roadmap (including critical milestones and timeline estimates)• regularly met with chemist/mechanical engineer responsible for hardware… Show more ≻ Designed and built organ-scanning software to provide quantitative feedback on surgical operation outcomes to surgeons-in-training, based on scans from internally-developed and -built scanning hardware• met with stakeholders, consulted scientists and medical experts, and reviewed published literature to identify project needs and chart development roadmap (including critical milestones and timeline estimates)• regularly met with chemist/mechanical engineer responsible for hardware development to discuss progress and synchronize upcoming steps• streamlined and adapted existing prototype Python source code files into unified application environment with interactive user interface using PyQT6, including real-time animated 3D-rendering of reconstructed scanned organs (as STL files) with PyQT3D• completely re-built image processing pipeline using convolution filter structure extraction, hysteresis filter masking, and tuned morphological closing, to produce reliable segmentations from messy image data (using Scikit-Image)• delivered an application that segmented scanned images far more accurately and reliably than the prototype, computed characteristics of scanned organs highly consistently, and worked 25-50% faster than the initial target speed≻ Assessed possible future projects and gave technical feedback about scope and feasibility to stakeholders Show less

≻ Designed and executed simulations of a laboratory experiment on solid-fluid interaction, to gain better understanding of unexpectedly high velocities of groups of particles• Met with experimentalists and read their in-progress publication, to understand experimental conditions and establish objectives for simulation• Created small exploratory simulations to reproduce key experimental aerodynamic properties, then scaled to full simulations on a remote HPC platform at one of the largest… Show more ≻ Designed and executed simulations of a laboratory experiment on solid-fluid interaction, to gain better understanding of unexpectedly high velocities of groups of particles• Met with experimentalists and read their in-progress publication, to understand experimental conditions and establish objectives for simulation• Created small exploratory simulations to reproduce key experimental aerodynamic properties, then scaled to full simulations on a remote HPC platform at one of the largest computing facilities in Europe (MPCDF in Garching)• Collected simulation data and computed quantities of interest (normalized closeness of particles, mean fluid velocities) with Python scripts; plotted particle velocity evolution, snapshots of particle location, and correlation with normalized closeness using Matplotlib• Successfully showed reproduction of observed experimental velocity excess in simulations, and established consistency with modification of local fluid environment in particle groups≻ Served in working groups and participated in DEI initiatives to help maintain a supportive working environment• Facilitated communication between colleagues and institute management, through regular surveys and meetings• Organized seminars/events and curated resources on healthy workplace culture and time management≻ I served on the organizing committees for two international scientific meetings and a graduate school winter retreat, which involved planning and coordination to meet strict deadlines and manage budgets. Show less

≻ Created a module for a large pre-existing hydrodynamics simulation code, to implement an efficient method for computing self-gravity in polar coordinates• Drove project from prototype in Python to full integration in Fortran, within a complex pre-existing code base• Validated at each development stage by checking agreement with analytically-solvable test cases and theoretical predictions of fluid evolution; performed scaling tests to confirm expected O(NlogN) grid-size scaling efficiency… Show more ≻ Created a module for a large pre-existing hydrodynamics simulation code, to implement an efficient method for computing self-gravity in polar coordinates• Drove project from prototype in Python to full integration in Fortran, within a complex pre-existing code base• Validated at each development stage by checking agreement with analytically-solvable test cases and theoretical predictions of fluid evolution; performed scaling tests to confirm expected O(NlogN) grid-size scaling efficiency, and verify correct parallelization behavior• Demonstrated effectiveness of module by reproducing results of contemporary work on a well-studied system Show less

≻ Taught two semesters of an introductory mechanics lab for engineering students• Gave brief lectures on lab procedure and background physics at the beginning of each lab session, then supervised students conducting lab experiments, helping when needed• Graded and gave constructive feedback on lab reports

≻ Tutored secondary school students in physics, mathematics, and computer science (Java)• Determined tutoring needs/goals, and established timelines and expectations, with students and their parents, and clearly communicated ongoing results and adjusted as needed.• helped students understand and complete course material using personal knowledge and collected resources.

≻ Wrote programs to analyze data from gold and uranium ion collisions from a high energy particle collider• binned raw particle detection data into histograms of detection angles and momenta (using C++/StRoot)• simulated collisions by populating nuclei with Monte Carlo sampling of established nuclear density distributions, then picking collision geometry parameters and overlapping them• extracted collision parameters by fitting bin counts to curves derived from simulated data;… Show more ≻ Wrote programs to analyze data from gold and uranium ion collisions from a high energy particle collider• binned raw particle detection data into histograms of detection angles and momenta (using C++/StRoot)• simulated collisions by populating nuclei with Monte Carlo sampling of established nuclear density distributions, then picking collision geometry parameters and overlapping them• extracted collision parameters by fitting bin counts to curves derived from simulated data; validated simulation accuracy by successfully re-deriving parameters of well-understood collisions from their data Show less