Experience

Barrier Biosciences

• United States
• Biotechnology
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Computational Biologist

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  Los Angeles, California, United States



Caltech

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Oct 2019 - Mar 2023

  Pasadena, California, United States - Synthesized gas vesicle (GV) derivatives, hollow protein structures, to implement ultrasound imaging on a cellular level. - Worked on expressing and purifying protein nanostructures bicones, smaller GV derivatives, from E. coli cultures to study their acoustic properties. - Researched potential uses of bicones as therapeutic and diagnostic agents for tumors and neurodegenerative diseases.

• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2022 - Jun 2022

  Pasadena, California, United States



ArsenalBio

• Brazil
• Retail

• Computational Biology Intern

  • Jun 2022 - Sep 2022

  Remote - Developed interactive web applications in collaboration with various divisions to make data visualizations and analysis easy and accessible company-wide - Applied statistical tests such as ANOVA and logrank test on large datasets with flexible subsetting options to make significance analysis versatile and convenient - Packaged web applications into Docker to streamline sharing and deployment



Washington University in St. Louis

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Aug 2021 - Jun 2022

  Remote - Obtaining methylation data from cell-free DNA in the blood to deconvolve immune cells populations that have infiltrated cancerous tumors. - Contributing to a coding pipeline that obtains, analyzes, and reports methylation information from sequenced DNA. - Applying the deconvolution data to gain insight on the type of immune cells found in tumors and personalize immunotherapy to improve therapeutics and prognosis.

• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

  • Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

  Pasadena, California, United States - Obtained methylation data from cell-free DNA in the blood to deconvolve immune cells populations that have infiltrated cancerous tumors. - Contributed to a coding pipeline that obtains, analyzes, and reports methylation information from sequenced DNA. - Used the deconvolution data to gain insight on the type of immune cells found in tumors and personalize immunotherapy to improve therapeutics and prognosis.

• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 2020 - Jun 2021

  Pasadena, California, United States

• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

  • Jun 2020 - Sep 2020

  Pasadena, California, United States - Researched and implemented ways to edit gas vesicle (GV) expression genes in cyanobacteria to express GV derivatives. - Designed CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) guides and repair templates to perform precise deletions in two GV expression genes. - Implemented a program to check for off-target matches for CRISPR guides in cyanobacteria genome to avoid mismatched editing.

• Editor of the California Tec

  • Jan 2020 - Jun 2020

  Pasadena, California, United States



Robert College

• Türkiye
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President of Robert College Science and Medicine Club

  • Sep 2018 - May 2019

  Istanbul, Turkey



Koç University

• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Summer Research Program for High School Students

  • Jul 2018 - Aug 2018

  Istanbul, Turkey - Optimized the transformation of regular cells into iPSCs to improve the yield. - Transformed iPSCs to model RTD, a neurodegenerative disease, by using CRISPR and RNAi to knockdown and knockout genes associated with RTD. - Obtained neural cells from transformation of iPSCs to test therapeutic drugs on RTD.



Koç Üniversitesi Hastanesi

• Türkiye
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer Research Assistant

  • Jun 2017 - Jul 2017

  Istanbul, Turkey - Worked on adjusting the process of baking milk-containing snacks for children to adjust the level of milk protein still remaining after the process. - Extracted and analyzed the protein content of the snacks using SDS-PAGE to determine how much milk protein left. - Used the data obtained from these snacks to make hypoallergenic milk-containing snacks for children with intolerance to milk-proteins.