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San Diego, Ca, Us

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San Diego, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

A 12-week intensive data science training program covering fundamentals and practical applications in statistics, machine learning, project design, and other areas. Projects completed include:• Create a question-answering model trained upon the Stanford Question Answering Dataset. Used attention mechanisms to improve network reasoning and recall.• Created Markov chains and character-level recursive neural networks for style capture and text generation based upon Donald Trump's tweets and presidential remarks. Featured in Towards Data Science.• Used natural language processing techniques to analyze and classify internet comments as hate speech or non-hateful. Created classification models for hate speech, as well as part-of-speech tagging using traditional classification algorithms and a convolutional neural network. Featured in Towards Data Science and Data Science Weekly.• An analysis of Craigslist housing and apartment postings, creating a regression model for rental price given characteristics of the unit.• An exploratory data analysis using data from the New York MTA subway system.

Mountain View, Ca

• Support R&D activities in testing and improving sequencing instruments utilizing cPAS technology. • Tested nucleotides with alternative reversible-terminator groups for compatibility with the incorporation process.• Evaluate the effect of chemical additives on process quality.

Mossville, Il

Plastics, Adhesives, and Composites Group, Advanced Materials Technology Division• Conducted audits of plastic suppliers engaged in injection molding, blow molding, and other plastics processes. • Designed fixture to examine plastics for environmental stress cracking on exposure to certain solvents and cleaners.• Contributed authorship to an internal plastics design guide on the areas of assembly and decorative methods.• Created reference document cross-referencing in-house materials testing capabilities with qualification testing needs.

Redondo Beach, Ca

Aerospace Systems Sector, Advanced Materials and Process Development Department• Improved the process for lab-scale silver electroplating of carbon-based wires and examined their resistive properties.• Utilized epoxies to create composite mirror structures and generated VBA code to analyze their surface roughness.• Prepared interface materials filled with carbon nanotubes and graphene to improve thermal performance.• Performed a gap analysis between internal nondestructive testing specifications and updated defense specifications.

La Jolla, Ca

• Lead weekly hour-long discussion sections for an upper-division mammalian physiology class.• Conducting weekly office hours and assist students in understanding course materials.• Administer and grade midterm and final examinations.

La Jolla, Ca

• Perform tasks necessary for maintenance of a mouse breeding colony, such as weaning• Assist in setup and preparation of processes such as PCR, gels, and protein digests.• Perform general laboratory maintenance tasks, such as autoclaving, taking inventory, and restocking consumables.• Experienced with aseptic technique.

Foster City

Molecular Medicine DivisionAssigned to group developing a diagnostic platform to evaluate gene expression profiles in RNA purified from patient specimens to predict the clinical benefit of a potential cancer treatment.• Designed and performed a RNA slide stability study to examine degradation of test samples over time, and the effects upon the diagnostic results.• Engaged in tissue sectioning, staining, and RNA extraction, and other sample preparation processes.• Familiar with RT-qPCR and UV/Vis Spectroscopy.• Wrote scripts using R to help accelerate the analysis of PCR data.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering, 3.86

Major in Chemical Engineering with minors in Mathematics, and General Biology.

High School Diploma