Intern - Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine Mesulam Institute for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease
(2025-06 - 2025-08)
- Compared motor speech markers among varying autopsy-confirmed primary progressive aphasia subtypes: Alzheimer's, tau, and TDP-C.
- Used Praat linguistics program with DDKtor neural network-based software package for automated measurement of voice onset time (VOT) and vowel durations in speech.
- Wrote Praat and Python scripts to extract and analyze timepoints of VOTs, vowel durations, and pauses in speech.
Research Assistant - Yale Wu Tsai Institute Nobre Lab
(2025-01 - 2026-05)
- Explored cognitive mechanisms of attention and memory over multisensory representations.
- Investigated whether there are differences in the cost from switching from auditory to visual attention and switching from visual to auditory attention.
- Used empirical mode decomposition and Hilbert spectral analysis to analyze EEG recordings to understand how visual stimulation affects neural oscillations during auditory working memory.
Research Assistant & Summer Research Fellow - Yale Cancer Biology Institute Lemmon Lab
(2023-05 - 2025-05)
- Investigated structural dynamics of mutated F1174L and R1275Q anaplastic lymphoma kinases.
- Designed plasmids then expressed, purified, and analyzed structural dynamics of mutated anaplastic lymphoma kinases through hydrogen deuterium exchange mass spectrometry.
- Cloned EGFR kinase domain duplication with C tail mutant proteins.
Research Assistant - University College London Queen Square Institute of Neurology Warren Lab
(2024-06 - 2024-08)
- Coded and analyzed patients' and their caregivers' reactions to personalized music playlists during home music listening sessions using the Video Analysis Scale of Engagement protocol.
- Analyzed participant behavior during music listening trials by coding facial and bodily movement.
- Engaged with patients in clinic at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
Research Assistant - Western Michigan University Roth Lab
(2020-08 - 2022-05)
- Assessed effects of music sonification and meditative movement on affect and flow measured by Positive and Negative Affect Schedule and Short Flow State Scale.
- Analyzed pre- and post-session differences as well as between-group (qigong without music, recorded music, and live music) differences in affect and flow.
Reproductive Health Department Care Coordinator - HAVEN Free Clinic
(2023-05 - 2026-05)
- Communicating visit scheduling, visit summaries, and test results to patients.
- Writing visit summaries after patient visits.
- Spreading awareness about free local healthcare resources to non-English speaking patients without health insurance.
Patient Aid - Yale New Haven Hospital
(2024-01 - 2026-05)
- Assisting nurses with patient comfort tasks in the infectious disease wing.
- Caring for and entertaining patients bedside with conversation, books, magazines, coloring, puzzles, music, or small tasks.
President - Davenport Pops Orchestra
(2024-05 - 2025-05)
- Managing musical and collaborative needs of 110 orchestra members.
- Planning concerts at 2,500+ seat venues.
- Planning social events in collaboration with other musical groups on campus.
Brass Section Leader - Davenport Pops Orchestra
(2023-09 - 2026-05)
Timothy Dwight Liaison - Davenport Pops Orchestra
(2025-05 - 2026-05)
Social Chair - Davenport Pops Orchestra
(2023-01 - 2023-05)
President - VIDA Volunteer
(2023-05 - 2024-05)
- Helped distribute medical supplies and aided clinical visits in underserved regions of Costa Rica.
- Facilitated service trips for four other students.
- Managed $2,000 per person fundraising.
Fundraising Coordinator - VIDA Volunteer
(2022-09 - 2023-05)
Tour Manager - Whim 'n Rhythm A Cappella
(2025-05)
- Coordinating and negotiating contracts with concert venues, music directors, professional event planners, and other musical groups to plan a ten-country, three-continent, for-profit world tour.
Senior Staff Writer - Yale Scientific Magazine
(2024-05 - 2026-05)
- Pitching article ideas and writing feature articles.
- Designing article layout.
- Leading science experiments and teaching middle schoolers about fun science during Science on Saturdays sessions.
Staff Writer - Yale Scientific Magazine
(2022-09 - 2024-05)
Volunteer - Alzheimer's Buddies
(2023-05 - 2024-12)
- Keeping Alzheimer's patients company through a pastime of their choice, whether conversing, playing games, or engaging in a hobby (ex: birdwatching).
Prefrosh Advisor - Yale Prefrosh Advisors
(2023-01 - 2025-05)
- Mentoring admitted students who haven't yet arrived on Yale's campus.
- Meeting with students once they've reached campus to give advice on college life.
First Chair, Trumpet - Davenport Pops Orchestra
(2022-09 - 2026-05)
First Chair, Trumpet - Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra
(2022-09 - 2023-05)
Member, Alto 2 - Whim 'n Rhythm A Cappella
(2025-02)
Recording Studio Aid (paid position) - Timothy Dwight College
(2024-09 - 2026-05)
Board Member - Yale Songwriting Collective
(2023-09 - 2026-05)
Cast Member - Yale Dramatic Association
(2024-05 - 2024-05)
Commencement Musical
