I'm a programmer and aspiring physician interested in expanding the intersection of data science and healthcare.

Education

Sept 2020

June 2024

University of California, San Diego
B.S. Computer Science with a Specialization in Bioinformatics, Minors in Math and Biology, GPA: 3.99
Clubs and activities: Undergraduate Bioinformatics Club (Community Service, VP External), Academic Enrichment for Relocated Students, Engineering World Health, International Health Collective
Relevant Coursework: Genetics, Human Physiology, Computational Statistics, Stochastic Processes, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing

Experience

Jun 2023

Present

Research Assistant, Mollah Lab
Redesigned data layout for CrewDB, a web application for visualizing protein-protein interaction networks for various chromatin regulators and diseases correlated with their abnormal functioning.
Developed an ontology for chromatin regulator proteins' biochemical information including domains, family classification, and annotated GO-terms, available for viewing and download on Bioportal.

Sep 2022

Present

Research Assistant, Dr. Jejo Koola
Developing prospective medical device surveillance framework to predict physicians' learning curve in using a medical device over time and to determine the inherent adverse event risk associated with using one device over another.
Tested efficacy of XGBoost hyperparameter tuning, GPBoost hierarchical modeling, and tree-based transfer learning methods to improve prediction accuracy of event outcome.

Sep 2021

Dec 2023

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Chi Lab
Worked on project investigating the enhancer switching mechanism between the MYH6 and MYH7 myosin heavy chain genes in human ventricular cardiomyocytes (vCM).
Conduct experiments: agarose gel preparation, gel extraction, miniprep/midiprep plasmid extraction, nanodrop concentration measurements, plasmid digestion and ligation, vector transformation, and immunohistochemistry staining.
Perform quality control, analysis, and data visualization of cardiomyocyte scRNA-seq data using Seurat R package.

Jan 2022

Aug 2022

Developed Java plugin for ImageJ to display fluorescence intensity of calcium imaging data of neuronal cells within an ROI over time.
Implemented program to identify regions containing neuronal cells in calcium imaging movies based on thresholding of calcium trace gradient and fluorescence variability per pixel over time.

Sept 2020

Mar 2021

Wrote python script to classify data sensors in the UCSD Computer Science Building according to the BRICK ontology.
Measured energy cost and temperature change from running air conditioning at full capacity.

Projects

Sept 2021

Present

Thyroid Disease Symptom Checker
Constructed a web application that tracks users’ thyroid health and performs a risk analysis from logged symptoms.
Designed frontend using HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, React, with JavaScript to animate modals, pagination and login page.
Developed backend using NoSQL, and Firebase Hosting, Authentication, and Realtime Database to host the app, manage user authentication, and retrieve and store user symptom information.