San Mateo, California, United States
I am currently a senior associate scientist at Gilead Sciences.
Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering; Graduated with Honor
Research under Professor Richard Murray; Engineered bacteria to degrade biopolymers and make biofuels
Research under Professor Yu-Chong Tai; Tested the properties of Parylene-C, a polymer widely used in biomedical devices due to its excellent biocompatibility
Oversee all aspects of the Caltech Y
Reviewed literature, performed laboratory experiments, wrote a scientific report – “Growth rate of dosage suppressed mutants of temperature sensitive lethal mutation in sec39 gene”, exhibited a poster, and presented research at Keck Graduate Institute, in Claremont, California, and at Annual Experimental Biology Conference in April 2008 in San Diego; abstract published in Experimental Biology 2008.