• Dr. François St-Pierre (advisor)
  • High-throughput Microscopy Screening Platform for Fluorescent Voltage Biosensor
    • Built image analysis pipelines in MATLAB to automate analysis of fluorescence microscopy recordings.
    • Designed parallel computing framework to process TBs of data and upload to MongoDB database.
    • Crafted advanced UI to visualize high-dimensional data and display statistical analysis results.
    • Documented 100+ custom functions and classes in HTML integrated to MATLAB and wrote tutorials.
  • Electrode Motor Assembly as a Microscope Add-on for Electric Field Stimulation
    • Built a prototype controlled by a Raspberry Pi to position Pt electrodes to provide stimulation to cells.
    • Improved sturdiness and precision using off-the-shelf optomechanical parts and SolidWorks modeling.
    • Deployed the redesigned assembly to 2 inverted microscopes and trained 10+ lab members.
  • SPOTlight: A Versatile Single-cell Microscope-based Bioproduct Engineering Platform
    • Streamlined automated workflow to control stage position with single-cell precision.
    • Achieved at least 1 million fold throughput improvement over well-based screening approaches.

🔗 GEVI (Wikipedia page I created)

  • Dr. Peter J. Varman (instructor of ELEC326 Digital Logic Design)
  • Graded lab reports and homework on Verilog from undergraduate students.
  • Held lab sessions on FPGA board development.
  • Dr. Joseph Decker (advisor)
  • Developed techniques of bioluminescence living cell microarrays.
  • Studied the time-dependent transcription factor / microRNA activity using R for statistical analysis.
  • Performed plasmid cloning of 110 microRNA to make luciferase reporters.
  • Conducted lentiviruses production and the transfection on target human cells.
  • Plasmid cloning, Bacterial transformation, Virus production, Lentiviral transfection, DNA Microarray analysis, Bioluminescence and biofluorescence imaging.
My Adviser and I in Umich North Campus Research Complex (NCRC)
  • Answered electrical & computer engineering related technical questions for lab users.
  • Maintained lab environment, and managed equipment usage for 300 JI students.