Experience

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  Neovasc Inc.

  • Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

  • R&D Sustaining Engineer

    • Apr 2022 - Apr 2024
    • Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

    • Develop verification/validation protocols, carry out testing, and write engineering reports.• Perform incoming, in-process, first article, rework, and product final release inspections and analyze the results.• Provide R&D support for risk management activities and review new and existing products.• Provide engineering support to non-conformance investigations regarding component failures, finished goods failures, and product returns.• Participate in root cause analysis for corrective actions and preventive actions (CAPAs) and customer complaints.• Perform Design History Records (DHR) reviews and health risk assessments.• Coordinate and execute design and process changes to existing products.• Assess proposed design and process changes for the impact to the organization and create Engineering Change Requests.• Provide guidance to Operation technicians and technical writers

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  UBC ICORD

  • British Columbia, Canada

  • Research Assistant | Dr. Babak Shadgan's Lab

    • May 2021 - Sep 2021
    • British Columbia, Canada

    • Conducted a comprehensive literature review on different configurations of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and NIRS calculating algorithms. • Implemented a method to calculate blood perfusion index (PI) from NIRS signals by performing MATLAB signal processing.

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  The University of British Columbia

  • Vancouver, Canada Area

  • Teaching Assistant

    • Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
    • Vancouver, Canada Area

    • Held studio sections, supervised the student groups throughout the project, and graded assignments

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  University of British Columbia Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • Research Assistant | Dr. Purang Abolmaesumi’s Lab

    • May 2019 - Aug 2019
    • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    • Collaborated with a graduate research student to develop methods of supervised landmark detection in echocardiography cine frames.• Implemented a neural network using python language to predict the landmarks on the PLAX view of the echocardiography cine frames. • Optimized a neural network to increase its prediction accuracies. • Optimized dimensionality of data for faster convergence of the algorithm

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  University of British Columbia Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • Research Assistant | Dr. Purang Abolmaesumi’s Lab

    • May 2018 - Aug 2018
    • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    • Developed a service app in Android Studio capable of capturing pixels in real-time in order to transfer data from a live cine currently displayed on an Android screen to a network.