Experience

Predoctoral Research Assistant

Microsoft Research New England -- Cambridge, MA

June 2024 — Present

  • Designed and developed a unified benchmarking suite for high-throughput microscopy models for drug discovery

  • Executed a large-scale data cleaning, segmentation, and quality control pipelines for millions of microscopy images

  • Deployed high-performance training and inference jobs on Azure, managing compute resources to handle massive datasets for model benchmarking

  • Benchmarked classical and modern machine learning models across diverse microscopy datasets to quantify performance limitations and identify key areas for advancement

  • Implemented rigorous evaluation strategies, such as cross-institution compound matching, to reveal model instabilities and performance limitations often missed by simpler metrics

Undergraduate Research Assistant

University of Michigan -- Ann Arbor, MI

May 2023 — May 2024

  • Designed a PyTorch-based deep learning model employing 3D autoencoders and neural networks to predict the effectiveness of medications for patients with chronic pain based on their fMRI image

  • Conducted unsupervised pretraining for variational autoencoder model with fMRI images from 1000 different patients and fine tuned it with the patients that have the labeled pain scores

  • Created a scalable and streamlined pipeline that leveraged the Boto3 library to effectively download an extensive 1.5TB fMRI dataset from an AWS S3 Bucket, sourced from Human Connectome Project

  • Collaborated with physicians from University of Michigan School of Medicine to identify possible regions of the brain responsible for pain and integrated it into the model to enhance performance

Teaching Assistant for EECS445: Machine Learning

  • Facilitated weekly discussion sessions for 25+ undergraduate students on fundamental machine learning methods

  • Composed and verified educational resources, including projects, homework submissions, and presentation slides, to maintain a high standard of education

  • Oversaw the management of missed assignments for a large student body of 300+ individuals, prioritizing individual support to maintain high student morale and academic success

University of Michigan -- Ann Arbor, MI

Jan. 2023 — May 2024

Education

University of Michigan, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Aug. 2020 — May 2024

Honors: summa cum laude