Lab Technician
University of Chicago Medical Center (May 2018-Present)
Study: “Caffeine reverses the unconsciousness produced by light anesthesia in the continued presence of isoflurane in rats” (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241818)
- Investigated the effects of caffeine on anesthesia recovery time using scalp EEGs with 3 leads.
- Developed a MATLAB application to load, process, and analyze EEG data in order to generate figures such as power spectra, spectrograms, or scalp maps.
- Analyzed Power spectra between 0-30Hz with a computational window size of 1000 and a 95% overlap. Spectrograms were computed with a time resolution of 10 seconds and a 99% overlap.
Teaching Assistant for Systems Laboratory
Washington University in St. Louis (January-May 2020)
- Hosted office hours to help students develop a flight control system for a Parrot Mambo UAV’s.
- Worked with a group of 2-4 students to debug and improve their system models and control logic in order to achieve stable flight.
Instructor
iD Tech Camps (May-July 2019)
- Facilitated collaborative learning environment to provide kids (ages 9-16) with their first exposure to coding and game design.
- Utilized Unreal Engine 4 and Autodesk Maya to help students create games with multilevel designs and custom 3D models.
Lab Assistant
University of Chicago Medical Center (June-August 2016)
Study: “Caffeine Accelerates Recovery from General Anesthesia via Multiple Pathways” (https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00393.2017)
- Injected caffeine or saline following 1 hour exposure to 2% isoflourane.
- Observed animal behavior and recorded recovery time.
Research Assistant
University of Chicago Medical Center (June-August 2015)
- Researched the effects of general anesthesia immediately before and after surgery.
- Interviewed patients and collected data pre and post-surgery.
- Patients were given a word to remember on a set interval starting 5 minutes prior to the injection of Midazolam.