Canada
• Engineered a medical device with an interdisciplinary (15 member) team to prevent deep vein thrombosis, advancing clinical trial readiness by 300% by leading 100+ hours of prototype testing. • Developed 5+ technical documentations in adherence to ISO9001 quality management system and product development life cycle to establish clinical SOPs, expediting FDA approval phase 2 years ahead of schedule. • Recruited 40 participants and streamlined onboarding process for prototype testing, to ensure compliance with inclusion/exclusion criteria with research ethics board approval, enhancing recruitment efficiency by 25%. • Streamlined data pipelines leveraging data mining techniques with MATLAB, Python, and Excel, improving performance metrics processing, and statistical tests/descriptive statistics evaluation efficiency by 60%.
• First student to graduate from the lab, setting the foundation for future research initiatives by establishing 3 novel and ongoing graduate projects, and successful collaborating with UHN, UofT, Stratasys Manufacturing, and SickKids. • Analyzed the use of 3D printed materials to replace damaged tissues in surgical procedures by performing biaxial testing to examine failure rate and compare strain behavior between 3D filaments to live cardiac tissue. • Constructed an in-house benchtop mock circulation loop for ex-vivo cardiovascular modelling by designing vascular CAD models and data acquisition systems, providing a cost-effective alternative at 40%. • Successfully delivered oral and poster presentations at international conferences, further enhancing verbal and written communication skills, and qualifying as a finalist in competitions in rally with top institutions.
Courses taught: Foundations in Electrical Circuits, Cardiovascular Biomechanics • Preparation and marking of tutorials, labs, and quizzes for ~60 second year students in addition to thoroughly guiding students through example problems and physical lab completion, resulting in 95% student satisfaction reported in surveys. • Presented midterm and final exam review for ~60 students, allowing them to develop a better understanding of the course material prior to examinations, improving student performance by 30% quantified by solution accuracy. • Responsible for the development of labs for the novel fourth-year Cardiovascular Biomechanics course to ensure labs meet accreditation standards in preparation for the engineering audit period, while continuing to provide students with engaged learning.
• Conducted high-resolution computational simulations using patient postoperative MRI images to quantify turbulent-like flow for clinicians at The Hospital for Sick Children, achieving $1M in CIHR funding. • Developed an in-house Python based automated framework to perform data visualization and numerical/predictive analyses for accelerated blood flow behavior analysis with Matplotlib, NumPy, SciPy in up to 100+ GB of data.