I'm passionate about art, biology, and coding.
I run a non-profit art gallery and studio in Berkeley, California, called India Block Arts. We make art for Burning Man most years.
I have a PhD in Bioengineering, and have co-authored publications cited over a thousand times. One project yielded a patent.
I've been coding since I was a kid, and this PHP code I wrote in 2002 still comes up on Google searches (lol). These days, my code typically looks like this.
A decorative hexagonal pavilion, shaded during the day and illuminated by six warm lanterns at night. Inside, twelve Edison kinetoscopes, each displaying a different 35mm film when participants turn a crank.
The cochlea is the biological structure that senses sound in our environment. Sixteen scale models of human cochleae are illuminated by flashes of light in response to sound, representing auditory neurons firing when triggered by certain frequencies of sound.
Our lord, the Doughy-Sattva: a cross between the Pillsbury doughboy and Buddha. Nightly, a cinnamon roll communion is ceremonially administered to participants.
Wearable, rechargeable, LED flower necklaces. Each is unique, and has a unique color that only it displays. When one flower is in range of others, they exchange colors and display one another's unique color perfectly in sync while they remain in radio contact.
View ProjectAn Ising model is a simple mathematical representation of ferromagnetism. Two vintage dials control the parameters of an Ising model projected on a screen. Colors shift periodically creating an interesting visual effect.
A gyroscope in the body of an ordinary teddybear transmits the bear's orientation to a nearby computer/stereo, translating position into a tone. Tones are chosen to match the chord progression of a song played through several pairs of attached headphones
Software Engineer Square, San Francisco, CA |
January 2021 - Present |
Senior Software Engineer OrderWrite, Atlanta, GA (remote) |
January 2020 - December 2020 |
Software Engineer One Codex, San Francisco, CA |
November 2018 - January 2020 |
Graduate Student Researcher Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and University of California, Berkeley, CA PI: Adam P. Arkin, Bioengineering |
February 2014 - May 2018 |
Research Associate Howard Hughes Medical Institute and New York University, New York, NY PI: Dan R. Littman, Molecular Immunology |
July 2010 - June 2012 |
Undergraduate Research Assistant University of California, Berkeley, CA PI: David V. Schaffer, Chemical Engineering |
February 2009 - June 2010 |
UNIX Systems Administrator The New York Internet Company, New York, NY |
May 2007 - June 2008 |
Course Designer, Bioengineering 131/231 University of California, Berkeley, CA |
August 2018 - December 2018 | ||||||||
Graduate Student Instructor University of California, Berkeley, CA
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August 2015 - December 2017 |
Ph.D., Bioengineering University of California, Berkeley, CA |
December 2018 |
B.A., Molecular and Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley, CA |
August 2010 |
2017 |
Lewis Scholar UC Berkeley Bioengineering departmental fellowship awarded to two students per year |
2016 |
eLife Early-Career Award Awarded to five percent of applicants to support travel to a conference |
2012 |
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Awarded to ten percent of applicants nationally |
Abramson SB, Scher JU, Littman DR, Pamer EG, Ubeda C, Longman RS, Sczesnak A. “Causative agents and diagnostic methods relating to rheumatoid arthritis.” |
U.S. Patent 10,011,883 Granted July 3, 2018 |