Graduated from Binghamton University in May of 2011
BS in Bioengineering and Complexity Theory
BA in Philosophy with honors

Conferences, Symposiums, Workshops
National Undergraduate Conference on Research 2011 - Poster Presentation

Upstate NY Cardiac Electrophysiology Society 20th Annual Meeting - Poster Presentation

Binghamton University Center for Advanced Micro Manufacturing 3rd Annual Flexible Electronics Symposium - Poster Presentation

FDA, NHLBI 3rd Annual Workshop on Computer Methods for Cardiovascular Devices - Poster Presentation

Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing - TeraGrid, MPI, Open MP training session

Binghamton University 8thAnnual Undergraduate Research Fair - Poster Presentation

Undergraduate Research
From January of 2010 to March of 2011 I worked (first without pay, then as a full-time employee during the summer and part-time employee during the semester) as a member of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Group in the Bioengineering Department at Binghamton University. My main responsibility included running hundreds of simulations using cardiac electrophysiology software, which was coded in C and optimized with MPI for parallel computation in the UNIX environment. All numerical approximations were obtained through the implementation of various FEM solvers. To curate data, we made extensive use of the computational resources made available by the NSF-sponsored TeraGrid, and to visualize it we typically used XMgrace and AVS.

Beyond this, my responsibilities included an implementation of a BEM solver to study extracellular stimulation. The final goal of our project was to couple the FEM and BEM solvers to produce the highly regarded bi-domain model of cardiac excitation. All of this work was aligned with the development of a medical device project where we collaborated with members of the Electrical Engineering Department, the Center for Advanced Micro-Manufacturing at Binghamton University, and local chip fabricator Endicott Interconnect. As progress was made, I presented our findings in a poster that continued to see revisions and was titled Control of AV Nodal Excitation during Atrial Fibrillation (AF). I presented our work at various conferences at the university, regional, and national levels.

Undergraduate Group Projects
BE 450/451: Complex Systems Engineering
I served as CEO for a startup named Colligence whose goal was to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The project focused on the release of black soot by diesel trucks operating throughout the New-England and Mid-Atlantic states. We proposed heavy-construction equipment sharing contracts between members of the oil and natural gas pipeline construction industry as one means to mitigate the effects of harmful emissions in areas identified by the CDC as having high incidents of AF.

BE 472: Autonomous Agents
Trained biobots to respond to environmental stimuli and maneuver around obstacles using neuro-inspired ODE models.

BE 302: Complex Adaptive Systems
Trained neural network to classify tumors as benign or malignant in breast cancer patients using a combination of image and non-image features.

Used a genetic algorithm to select trained neural network weights and applied this technique to the tumor classification problem in an attempt to improve detection accuracy and speed up convergence.

BE 351: Data Acquisition & Analysis of Living Systems
Measured the lasting impression that famous historical figures have on members of society to gauge long-term sociopolitical influence.

BE 202: Biological Networks
Determined transmission pathways across a student body in a rural high school to identify mechanisms of propagation and suggest inhibition strategies for sexually transmitted diseases.

BE 201: Self-Organizing Systems
Compared the propagation velocity between limb and bulbar onset variations of ALS to study neuromuscular diseases.

Undergraduate Individual Projects
Philosophy Senior Honors Thesis advised by Eric Dietrich
Points of View Based Epistemology: A Close Look at the Gödel Incompleteness Theorems

Bioengineering Research Project advised by Jacques Beaumont
Boundary Element Method with Biomedical Applications: Extracellular Stimulation

BE 410: Complexity in Biological Systems
Performed a cursory examination of single gene species vs. multiple gene species environments with an emphasis on propagation frequency, competition and energy consumption, as well as co-inhabitant features.

Studied 2D and 4D continuous time models of neuromuscular frequency response with an emphasis on the relationship between free rhythmic behavior and irregular forcing functions to gain insight into the relationship between biological oscillators and biomechanical resonance.

BE 201: Self-Organizing Systems
Assessed the economic burden associated with the number of sick days in the U.S. generated by the spread of the common cold virus.