Project Management
I have been managing projects (without realizing it) from a very young age – when at just 12 years old I started my own music tutoring business. Since then I have developed and managed projects for Circle K International, the UCLA Career Center, and Peace Corps Mozambique.
Circle K International at UCLA
- Conservation Carnival: managed a team of 20 volunteers who produced an hour-long event that taught conservation practices to 800 middle school students
- UCLA Volunteer Days: led over 200 volunteers on educational and beautification service projects for 3 UCLA Volunteer Days
- Alexandria House and Samoshel Cooknights: organized a biweekly service project which provided healthy and nutritious meals to approximately 80 persons experiencing homelessness
- Science Field Trips: led and managed trips which provided over 150 underprivileged students with educational programs at local museums
UCLA Career Center
- Break Into Biotech: co-planned and managed an informational panel and networking event which provided over 60 undergraduate students with tips and resources for entering the biotechnology industry
- Conferencing 101: developed a 50 minute workshop that teaches undergraduate students how to leverage conferences for career opportunities
Peace Corps Mozambique
- Additional Volunteer Training: co-planned and led 4 additional weeks of training activities for a group of 50 education volunteers
Research
As a neuroscience major at UCLA, research was a vital component of my undergraduate experience. During my 3 years working as a research assistant at Dr. Katsushi Arisaka’s laboratory at UCLA, I developed a novel experimental method for which I was granted membership in the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program and received Departmental Honors in Neuroscience. I also obtained a research fellowship at The Scripps Research Institute as part of the Research Experience for Undergraduates program funded by the National Science Foundation.
Arisaka Laboratory, UCLA
- Led investigation of the role of saccades, stimulus complexity and alpha and gamma oscillations in binocular rivalry using a novel system consisting of 256-channel EEG and Fove virtual reality headset and eye-tracking
- Wrote Neuroscience Department Honors thesis on this research, receiving two marks of ‘highest honors’
- Evolved Dr. Kiyotoshi Matsuoka’s work to create a dynamic reciprocal-inhibition model of binocular rivalry
- Coded multiple binocular rivalry stimulus presentation scripts in Matlab and Unity
- Awarded the Dean’s Prize for the following research presented at UCLA Poster Day 2019: Investigating the Role of Saccades in Binocular Rivalry Using a Novel Virtual Reality Based System
Miller Laboratory, The Scripps Research Institute
- Optimized a protocol for detecting co-localization of miR-135b-5p and c-Fos protein by combining fluorescent in situ hybridization for mir-135b-5p and immunohistochemistry for c-Fos
- Assisted Dr. Stephanie Sillivan and Dr. Courtney Miller in exploring the effects of the microRNA mir-135b-5p on stress and fear in a SEFL mouse model
- Presented the following poster at the TSRI SURF program poster day 2017: Combined fluorescent in situ hybridization for detection of miR-135b-5p and immunohistochemistry for co-localization of c-Fos protein
Wordsmithing
From essays analyzing old Italian texts to grant proposals, blog posts to entire university seminars, I’ve written a lot of different material. While it may not constitute high literature, I have created quite a bit of content worth reading.
Seminar Course Content: Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
- 10 week seminar explaining and exploring modern Artificial Intelligence, its similarities and differences with the human brain, and potential for achieving consciousness. Check out our presentations here.
- Proposal of General Education Cluster course on Artificial Intelligence
Essays on Texts and Other Interesting Things
Neuroscience Papers
- Consciousness
- Neuroprostheses
- Ethics of Boosting Academics with Drugs
- Bipolar Disorder
- Focal Motor Epilepsy
Grant Proposals
- CKI Grant proposal – Science Field Trip
- CKI Grant proposal – Alexandria House and Samoshel Cooknights