Functional Skills
Biomedical Engineering
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Data Science
Market Research
Machine Learning
Experimental Design
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Healthcare
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Experience
Verily Life Sciences LLC, Alphabet
Engineering
Senior Optical Scientist
10/2022 - 3/2023
Software/hardware development for the Advanced Imaging & Digital Pathology teams.
Technical lead for development of advanced image processing pipeline to accelerate high throughput tissue digitization through novel automated segmentation algorithms.
Analysis and acquisition of auto- and immuno-fluorescence images from human pathology samples acquired with a custom hyper-spectral microscope for training of generative models.
Debugging and maintaining high-throughput hyper-spectral imaging and spectroscopy. instruments in late product research phase of development for a multi million dollar contract.
Detailed study of market fit and customer needs in the digital pathology space to inform future developments in our software and hardware development.
Technical lead for development of advanced image processing pipeline to accelerate high throughput tissue digitization through novel automated segmentation algorithms.
Analysis and acquisition of auto- and immuno-fluorescence images from human pathology samples acquired with a custom hyper-spectral microscope for training of generative models.
Debugging and maintaining high-throughput hyper-spectral imaging and spectroscopy. instruments in late product research phase of development for a multi million dollar contract.
Detailed study of market fit and customer needs in the digital pathology space to inform future developments in our software and hardware development.
Neural Interface Engineering Lab, Health Technologies Institute (
Engineering
Research Scientist
9/2017 - 10/2022
Technical lead on dozens of multidisciplinary research projects across multiple teams comprised of engineers, biologists, and clinicians developing novel neurotechnologies.
Oversaw fundraising and budgeting for millions of dollars in federal grants.
Planning, set-up, and management of equipment, infrastructure, and systems for labs in the Tech4Health Institute as the 1st hired member.
Hiring, recruitment, training and mentoring of over 30 technical and support personnel at Tech4Health and the Neural Interface Engineering lab.
Pursued independent research in 3D holographic and tomographic imaging, imaging processing for denoising and super-resolution, and advanced optics for large field-of-view microscopy.
Oversaw fundraising and budgeting for millions of dollars in federal grants.
Planning, set-up, and management of equipment, infrastructure, and systems for labs in the Tech4Health Institute as the 1st hired member.
Hiring, recruitment, training and mentoring of over 30 technical and support personnel at Tech4Health and the Neural Interface Engineering lab.
Pursued independent research in 3D holographic and tomographic imaging, imaging processing for denoising and super-resolution, and advanced optics for large field-of-view microscopy.
Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Research
Postdoctoral Fellow
9/2013 - 9/2017
Engineered systems for neuroscience experiments, including integration of microscopy with high volume data acquisition, real-time computer control, and sophisticated high-speed imaging of animal behavior with machine vision based analysis.
Built advanced acousto-optic depth of field scanning systems for volumetric imaging at 80MPix/s.
HPC-based distributed memory image analysis of high-speed volumetric imaging datasets.
Developed mechanical sensors and time-series analysis for measurement of small vibrational dynamics of mouse whiskers.
Bioengineering and testing of second-generation, high-sensitivity eGFP-based glutamate sensors.
Built advanced acousto-optic depth of field scanning systems for volumetric imaging at 80MPix/s.
HPC-based distributed memory image analysis of high-speed volumetric imaging datasets.
Developed mechanical sensors and time-series analysis for measurement of small vibrational dynamics of mouse whiskers.
Bioengineering and testing of second-generation, high-sensitivity eGFP-based glutamate sensors.