Data Science Intern

Vena Vitals · Irvine, CA · January 2026 – Present

Built a custom GUI application that automates quality assurance testing for continuous heart rate monitors, coordinating hardware synchronization and parallel data acquisition while holding latency under 100ms. Along the way, I showed that Bluetooth (BLE) data collection holds up just as well as a wired (USB) connection, with error staying under 1.5% across repeated trials.

Research Assistant, BEAT Lab

Irvine, CA · June 2025 – June 2026

Developed and optimized a cardiovascular modeling software written in Python, speeding up its signal-processing calculations by 12% using NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, and Numba. Ran a rigorous comparison across 10+ algorithms to find the most efficient and accurate methods for the core model.

Research Assistant, Hayes Lab

Irvine, CA · September 2024 – June 2025

Developed an automated bacteria colony tracking system in C++ using OpenCV, analyzing 200+ 3D images to extract population size and growth dynamics. Wrote Python scripts to standardize and resize image data for more consistent model tracking, and adapted numerical modeling algorithms borrowed from weather forecasting to improve prediction accuracy and runtime speed.