Research

Starting May 2022, I will be working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Advanced Sensor Systems and Test Beds Group (Group 33) as a Research Intern.

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Current Positions:

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From January 2022 - Present, I have been working at the UCSF Tison Lab as an Undergraduate Researcher.

  • PIs - Dr. Geoff Tison, Dr. Joshua Barrios
  • Project - Pre-trained video models with domain transfer for efficient disease detection using echocardiograms

From September 2021 - Present, I have been working at the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab as an Undergraduate Researcher.

  • PI - Dr. Gašper Beguš
  • Projects - ArticulationGAN, Project CETI, Speech and Computation Lab Website

From August 2021 - Present, I have been working at the NSF Center for Spatiotemporal Thinking, Computing, and Applications (CSTCA) as a Research Associate.

  • PIs - Dr. Chaowei Yang, Dr. Ruixin Yang, Dr. Sun Ling Wang
  • Projects - ArcCI (Sea Ice High Resolution Aerial Image Management and Processing Platform), USDA ERS (Patterns in Crop Yield and Climate Data)

From August 2021 - Present, I have been working at CITRIS and the Banatao Institute at UC as a Research Associate.

  • Supervisor - Jill Finlayson
  • Project - DEI in UC-wide Startup Incubators, Grant Writing (NSF), 6th Annual Women in Tech Symposium (Advancing Climate Resilience)

From May 2021 - Present I have been working under NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center as a Research Intern/Science Collaborator.

  • PIs - Dr. Chaowei Yang, Dr. Daniel Duffy
  • Project - Distributed Learning Benchmarks for Deep Learning Earth Science Applications

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Past Positions:

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In September 2021, I worked at The Alan Turing Institute alongside the UK Dementia Research Institute and DEMON Network as a Data Scientist.

  • PIs - Dr. Abhirup Banerjee, Dr. Yeung-Yeung Leung
  • Project - Modeling Amyloid Beta Plaque Formation in Alzheimer's Disease

From September 2021 - December 2021, I worked under the United States Department of Defense Defense Innovation Unit as an Undergraduate Researcher.

  • PI - Ritwik Gupta
  • Project - Preventing IUU Fishing

From August 2021 - December 2021, I worked at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab as an Undergraduate Researcher.

  • Project - Adaptive SAM Optimizers and Regularization for Deep Learning

From May 2021 - August 2021, I worked at the National Science Foundation as an Undergraduate Research Fellow.

  • PIs - Dr. Chaowei Yang
  • Supervisors - Dr. Dexuan Sha, Dr. Yun Li
  • Project - ArcCI (Sea Ice High Resolution Aerial Image Management and Processing Platform)

From May 2021 - July 2021, I worked under the United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology as a AI Researcher.

  • Project - goFintel (Preventing the Financing of Terrorism)

From February 2021 - May 2021, I worked at Cambridge Infectious Diseases as a Research Assistant.

  • PIs - Dr. Ian Goodfellow
  • Supervisor - Emma Glennon
  • Project - Vaccine Distributions in LMICs

From February 2021 - August 2021, I worked at CITRIS and the Banatao Institute at UC as a Research Assistant.

  • Supervisor - Jill Finlayson
  • Projects - Grant Writing (Google and NSF), 5th Annual Women in Tech Symposium (HCI)

From November 2020 - March 2022, I worked under the U.S. Department of State Office of the Geographer and Geographic Issues as an Undergraduate Researcher.

  • PIs - Dr. Melinda Laituri, Dr. Wendy Guan
  • Supervisor - Dr. Junghwan Kim
  • Project - COVID-19 Second-Order Impacts

From November 2020 - May 2021, I worked at the Knowledge Futures Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Research Contributor.

  • Supervisor - Samuel J. Klein
  • Project - The Underlay (Distributed Knowledge Graphs)

From September 2020 - January 2021, I worked at the Center for Geospatial Analysis at Harvard University as a Research Assistant.

  • PI - Dr. Wendy Guan
  • Project - COVID-19 Excess Death

From December 2019 - December 2020, I worked at the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Research Intern.

  • Project - Deepfake Detection with Predictive Recurrent Neural Networks (PredRNN++)

From June 2019 - October 2019, I worked at the Institute for Security, Technology, and Security at Dartmouth College as a Research Intern.

  • Supervisor - William Nisen
  • Project - Social Engineering Techniques

From June 2019 - September 2019, I worked at the Department of Applied Mathematics at Illinois Institute of Technology as a Research Intern.

  • Supervisor - Dr. Lulu Kang
  • Project - Efficiency of Data Science Regression Models