Greater Melbourne Area
Preventing Eye Injuries from Recreational Fishing in Western Australia Group Members: Nikita Kukadia, Britney Le, Nasteha Omar, Ellie Schneider, Umeshi Weerasinghe & Julia Wilding Supervisors: Prof David Mackey & Khyber Alam Associated Accolades: Lions Eye Institute Research Award
Receiver of LEI's first Summer Research Scholarship valued at $5000. The project was headed by Professor Bill Morgan and Aleks Vukmirovic and involved data collection for the PhD AI research project of Ehtesham Chowdhury. Project Summary: Using deep learning algorithms to automatically detect and label retinal arteries and veins from fundus images. My role: Creating masks of optical images for the deep learning algorithm.
Teacher of swimming and water safety for 3 years with the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre. Experience with teaching children aged between 3 - 10 years old basic stroke technique and survival skills. Additionally, I was licensed to teach swimming to children with Autism through Autism Swim. Other duties included mentoring/coaching trainee swim instructors and instructing school swimming programs