I am a multidisciplinary scientist with skillsets of both a biologist and a engineer. My research projects have ranged from synthesizing and characterizing nanoparticles to conducting clinical malaria studies in Africa using microfluidic devices that I designed and fabricated. I have extensive experience in developing microfluidic and microscopy based assays to obtain quantitative measurements of living organisms. These assays were developed by leveraging a wide range of skills, including cell culture, mechanical equipment design, microfluidic device fabrication, formulating novel cell-culture reagents, and creating automated microscope controls as well as automated data processing pipelines on high-performance computing clusters.
When I am not trying to develop new machine learning and AI skillsets, I can be found at the bouldering at the climbing gym, biking around the mid-Peninsula, drinking too much coffee, etc.