About me
I am a soon to be graduate (Winter 2021) of a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Calgary. My interests lie in product development, synthetic biology, and arduino programming.
What I've worked on
iGEM
The iGEM competition is an international synthetic biology research competition held
yearly in Boston, Massachusetts. University teams from all over the world compete
with projects in categories such as Therapeutics, Food and Nutrition, and Foundational Advancement.
At the University of Calgary, the team operates under the Cumming School of Medicine as its own research group
under the supervision of Dr. Mayi Arcellana-Panlilio.
I was selected to join the team in 2018 where I focused on developing software and performed human practices work.
In 2019 I returned as a team lead where I took on a client facing role and pushed the team to engage with industry.
iGEM 2019
In 2019 the team tackled the overabundance of chlorophyll in canola seeds - dubbed the "Green Seed" problem. For this project I took on a product management role, where I focused on engaging with stakeholders in the agriculture industry and working with the team to design solutions that would make a meaningful impact. This project earned recognition at the iGEM competition, winning Best Human Practices, Best Software Tool, and First-Runner Up for the undergraduate category in addition to numerous nominations in other categories.
See the wiki Human Practices
iGem 2018
In 2018 the iGEM Calgary team worked on a synthetic biology approach to increase the capabilities of gene therapy. In addition to helping build the wiki I worked with a small team of bioinformatics and engineering students to develop a web scraper alongside a text summarization tool that would be used to aggregate bioinformatics tools.
See the wiki See the software toolHackathon's and school projects
OWLECTO
OWLECTO is an IOT owl that can be used to annoy friends, parents, or siblings even when you're not around. I worked on the assembly of the owl's hardware and body as well as the arduino programming. This was completed for Human Computer Interaction II (CPSC 581) in winter 2020.
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Shoehorn and Acaikii
Shoehorn and Acaiikii are two creative alternate methods to unlock a phone. I developed and Shoehorn while my teammate created Acaiikii. This was a project for Human Computer Interaction II (CPSC 581) in winter 2020.
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Conversations in Bloom
Conversations in Bloom is an information physicalization that represents the health of the relationships one has with loved ones based off of their phone call frequency. I programmed and built the hardware for the tree and my partner developed the phone frequency tracking and analysis. This was a project for Physical and Tangible HCI (CPSC 599.88) in winter 2020.
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Snoomba
Snoomba is a snow shoveling and sidewalk salting robot built off of a Roomba. I worked on the hardware for the salting mechanism as well as overall ideation and design. This was completed by my team and I for the Calgary Hacks 2019 competition and was selected for the finalist presentations.
See the proposal