University of California, Los Angeles

January 2024 - Present

• PI: Tiffany Ho, Ph. D.

• Projects:

  • Teen Inflammation Glutamate Emotion Research (TIGER)

  • Within-network cohesion in depressed adolescents

Notable experience

• Processed and analyzed fMRI data using high performance computing cluster

• Collected and prepared biospecimen samples (saliva and blood)

• Collaborated with neuroimaging technicians for participants’ fMRI scans

• Helped recruit depressed and non-depressed adolescent participants

• Conducted psychosocial stress task

• Maintained and organized lab trackers

• Translated lab materials from English to Spanish

• Conducted live translation for participants who were Spanish-only speakers

• Presented in lab didactics

University of California, Los Angeles

October 2022 - Present

• PI: Bridget Callaghan, Ph.D.

• Project:

  • Mind, Brain, Body

• Behavioral coding for parent-child dyads

• Lab meeting presentations, discussions, and research collaboration

• Trained in MACRO-FIMS behavioral assessment

• Attended weekly lab meetings

• Presented at Lab workshps

University of California, Los Angeles

October 2022 - Present

• PI (EPSS): Vasilis Angelopolous, Ph.D.

• PI (S.I.): Jacob Bortnik, Ph.D.

• Projects:

  • THEMIS & ARTEMIS Satellites' research management

  • SPACE Institute: Program Outreach and Funding Development

• NASA Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility grant supplement

• Research websites - in compliance with NASA and NSF research goals

University of Southern California

June 2021 - October 2022

• Projects:

  • Automating technical skills assessment in robot-assisted surgery and virtual reality exercises

  • Improving novel task acquisition in robot-assisted surgical setting

  • Using A.I. to improve novel task acquisition in a robot-assisted surgical setting

  • Exploring the status quo of robotic surgical training in the operating room

Notable experience:

• Wrote (primary authorship):

  • Intuitive Surgical Robotics - Institutional Grant

  • IRB supplements for audio/visual recording during live surgery

• Helped write and/or edit:

  • NIH R01 Project Deep Dissect

• Worked on research with populations including:

  • Medical students

  • Surgeons

  • Oncology patients

Occidental College

August 2017 - May 2018

• Designed computerized research method.

• Recruited 30 healthy human participants.

• Conducted rigorous health screenings.

• Conducted cognitive research using state of art psychology technology.

• Compiled and analyzed data.

• Documented and presented results.

Occidental College

August 2016 - May 2018

• PIs: Andrew Shtulman, Ph.D. & Andrew G. Young, Ph.D.

• Projects:

  • Exploring coexistent reasoning in children & healthy adults

  • Observing the effect of caffeine on healthy adults; a reasoning task

Notable experience:

• Worked on research with populations including:

  • Children (ages 3-12)

  • Adolescents (ages 12-16)

  • Adults (18+)

• Received IRB approval to administer caffeine to human participants

Occidental College

August 2015 - May 2018

• PIs: Nancy K. Dess, Ph.D. & Clinton Chapman, Ph.D.

• Project:

  • Observing the effect of caffeine on adult rats; a novel object task

Notable experience:

• Researching and caring for lab-rats

• Developing A/V research interventions (e.g., startle test)

• Received IRB approval to administer high-dose caffeine to rats

• Working with motion tracking software