Resume

Education

• PhD (2021–)
  • Neuroengineering Laboratory, EPFL
  • Thesis director: Prof. Pavan Ramdya
  • Doctoral Program in Computational and Quantitative Biology
• MSc (2018–2019)
  • National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  • Fully funded by research assistantship and fellowship stipend
• BSc (2015–2018)
  • Computer Science and Astronomy, Highest Distinction
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  • Started in Div. of Engineering Science, University of Toronto (2015–2016); transfered to UIUC (2017)

Work Experience

• Habiterre Corp. (2019–2021)
  • Chief Research Officer
  • UIUC spinoff dedicated to ecosystem modeling informed by satellite data and AI.
  • Led Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 2020 to 2021: Developing a generative framework to assess farmland resilience based on artificial intelligence, satellite data, and stochastic weather modeling.
• National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA) (2017–2019)
  • Research Internship with the NCSA LIGO/Gravity Group: worked on deep-learning-based galaxy classification for the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and numerical relativity for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO)
  • Research Internship with Prof. Kaiyu Guan’s group: worked on fusing multiple satellite data sources with computer vision.

Awards and Honors

• Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship (2022–2024)
  • Stipend and travel grant awarded by Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, foundation for basic medical research
• Fiddler Innovation Fellowship (2019)
  • Scholarship awarded by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• O’Dell Fellowship for Master’s study (2018–2019)
  • Stipend awarded by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• BSc in Computer Science and Astronomy with Highest Distinction (2018)
  • Awarded by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• First Place in Original Undergraduate Research (2018)
  • Awarded by UIUC at its Engineering Open House

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