Experience

Rice University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Researcher in the Veiseh Lab

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  My project pertains to synthesizing and characterizing alginate analogs that would prevent a host immune response. We will test these analogs in a screening project in order to see if these molecules elicit a host immune response.



Rice University's Doerr Institute for New Leaders

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Leadership Development Program

  • Sep 2020 - Dec 2020



Medella Urgent Care

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Observer

  • Nov 2019 - Mar 2020

  Shadowed an emergency medicine physician and a nurse practitioner to gain clinical exposure and a better understanding of healthcare.



University of Connecticut

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jul 2019 - Jul 2019

  I worked in Dr. Kumar's biological/physical chemistry lab with doctoral students. We utilized chemical dyes, lipids, and proteins to see if we can manipulate electromagnetic radiation through FRET (Fluorescence Energy Transfer). The objective of our research was to develop a mechanism to increase solar cell efficiency through biodegradable means.



CIEE Council on International Educational Exchange

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Student Volunteer

  • Jun 2019 - Jul 2019

  I traveled to Merida to volunteer at Los Hogar del Angeles, a nonprofit dedicated to providing food, shelter, and other resources to indigenous families whose kids have cancer. My activities ranged from keeping up with the donor list to helping out the families with anything they needed. I also took social policy seminars during my time there and participated in cultural exchanges with my host family.



University of California, Berkeley

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Student

  • Jun 2018 - Jun 2018

  I took classes in global health and epidemiology that were taught by two emergency medicine physicians at both UC Berkeley and UCSF Medical School. I also learned how to triage, perform CPR, take a person's blood pressure, suture, and even participate in mass casualty simulations. At UCSF, I was able to develop clinical skills through simulation with dummies.