May 2025

Graduation from the University of Pennsylvania

I graduated from the MCIT program at the University of Pennsylvania with a 3.66 GPA. Throughout the program, I built a strong foundation in software development, including object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms, while also gaining hands-on experience with emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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January 2025

Teaching Assistant, University of Pennsylvania

I was hired by the University of Pennsylvania as a Teaching Assistant for their Introduction to Software course. In this role, I held weekly office hours to provide 1:1 support, answered questions on course material and assignments, led targeted review sessions to help students prepare for exams and projects, and helped design course content.

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October 2024

NWAAPM Conference Presentation

I was invited to present the results of my AI-driven medical imaging research to an audience of over 100 physicians, researchers, and engineers at the 2024 NWAAPM chapter meeting held at the University of Washington.

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May 2024

Software Engineer Intern, University of Washington

As an intern at the University of Washington, I helped design an AI-based pipeline to automate CT scan processing and generate volumetric annotations of pulmonary nodules. This system supported large-scale enrichment of the NLST dataset, applying deep learning and image processing techniques to analyze over 70,000 scans.

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August 2023

Enrollment at University of Pennsylvania

I enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania’s MCIT program — a rigorous graduate-level computer science curriculum for non-CS majors — to deepen my programming skills and transition into a career as a software engineer. I began to build a strong foundation in software development fundamentals.

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May 2022

Graduation from the University of Illinois

I graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a 3.54 GPA, gaining a strong foundation in systems thinking, problem solving, and quantitative analysis.

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May 2021

Supply Chain Intern - PepsiCo

I joined PepsiCo as a Supply Chain Intern, where I helped automate driver check-in using a digitalized process, and co-developed a Tableau-based load tracking tool to improve data visibility and support supply planning

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January 2020

Illinois Outdoor Adventure Club Board Member

I joined the Outdoor Adventure Club’s executive board, where I helped set club policy, led trips, and explored the outdoors with fellow students, serving a community of over 2,700 members.

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