Work/Internship Experience


Obaid Lab for Molecular Imaging and Optical Nanotherapeutics


  • Continuation of research at UT Southwestern
  • Characterized various nanoscale drugs for head and neck cancers under light-activated, x-ray activated, and γ-ray activated conditions
  • Co-authored review artice: Deep tissue activation of photonanomedicines: an update and clinical perspectives (accepted)

Air Force Civilian Service


  • Premier College Intern as a part of the Premier College Intern Program
  • Worked in the 711th Human Performance Wing in the Bioanalytics Section at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the Air Force Research Laboratory
  • Research project involves developing an application for toxicological analysis integrated with machine learning applications

UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences


  • 2021 Green Fellowship
  • Worked in the Saha Lab in the Radiation Oncology/Molecular Radiation Biology Department at UT Southwestern
  • Acquired imaging data in 3D tumor models for head and neck cancer as well as imaged and modeled time-dependent distribution of x-ray responsive nanoparticles in response to varying doses of radiation therapy
  • Investigated the use of light-activatable nanotechnology as a facilitator for radiation therapy in radiation-resistant tumors of the head and neck

MSE Group, LLC


  • Staff I IT Intern
  • Participated in general IT management
  • Submitted a TCEQ Air Quality Permit
  • Designed promotional material and editing the project outline for the electric vehicle plan for Electric Vehicles San Antonio
  • Digitized company reference material
  • EPA TRI Reporting
  • Electronic Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (eSWPPP) Development

The Systems for Augmenting Human Mechanics Lab at UTD


  • Undergraduate Researcher (2020-present)
  • Currently learning about neural network architecture and building a neural network to identify diseases related to the hip joint
  • Mainly used MATLAB

The Speech Disorders and Technology Lab at UTD


  • Undergraduate Researcher (2018-2019)
  • Developed speech analysis programs
  • Mainly used MATLAB

Trinity University Bioinformatics Department


  • High School Researcher (2018)
  • Developed programs to analyze hybrid incompatiblities between strains of Arabidopsis Thaliana
  • Mainly used Python

Texas Dermatology and Laser Specialists


  • Company Intern (2016)
  • Updated personnel files, input patient data into database, took basic patient data, edited firm website
  • Mainly used HTML/CSS as well as customer interaction