Zach Cacini

Jr. Scientist at SimBioSys, Inc.
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Greater Chicago Area

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Experience

    • United States
    • Biotechnology
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Jr. Scientist
      • Jun 2023 - Present

    • Medical Imaging Research Intern
      • May 2022 - Jul 2023

      - Completed a parameter search to fit the pharmacokinetic values of a drug regimen's killing rate - Investigated literature and patient cases to explain discrepancies between pathology and radiology after neoadjuvant therapy in breast cancer patients - Built ML models (3D CNN, Xception Net, VGG16) seeking to predict tumor pathological complete response from different imaging timepoints

    • United States
    • Biotechnology Research
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Bioengineer Advancement Wiki Co-Director
      • Aug 2021 - Aug 2022

      - Outlining the design for a website to host key student-produced information for younger undergraduates in the department - Compiled written and video content for support of technical skills and research experiences

    • Technical Workshop Director
      • May 2020 - Aug 2021

      - Lead a team of three to create and present a variety of technical workshops on Python, MATLAB, ImageJ, Arduino, and more - Compiled the resources developed for use in future technical tutorials to support BMES members’ education and career goals

  • IBM-UIUC Discovery Accelerator Institute
    • Champaign, Illinois, United States
    • Undergraduate Researcher in Artificial Intelligence
      • Aug 2021 - Aug 2022

      - Implementing a Data-to-Intelligence framework for lab test result analysis - Programmed framework to process lab test thresholds from lab manual textbooks - Collaborating with IBM researchers and an NLP research lab on campus - Implementing a Data-to-Intelligence framework for lab test result analysis - Programmed framework to process lab test thresholds from lab manual textbooks - Collaborating with IBM researchers and an NLP research lab on campus

    • ML Development Lead
      • Jan 2022 - Jul 2022

      - Developing ML platform to predict blood electrolyte concentrations of ECG signals - Experimenting with CNNs and other neural networks based on different data types to test performance - Discover breakthrough research papers to guide our algorithm implementations

    • Project Manager
      • Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

      - Maintaining progress and organization in a team of 8 undergraduates - Developed an Android app behind a hydrogen sensing breathalyzer-like device - This system will be deployed to Carle Hospital patients with Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) and enables them to track and manage their condition daily

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Computational Oncology Research Scholar
      • Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

      - Completed a research project on modeling tumor microenvironments in glioma using quantitative MRI data - Worked extensively with various clustering algorithms and differential equation models in MATLAB to extract clusters and predict growth based on initial conditions - Gave an oral presentation to field experts at the BMES conference in October 2021 - Completed a research project on modeling tumor microenvironments in glioma using quantitative MRI data - Worked extensively with various clustering algorithms and differential equation models in MATLAB to extract clusters and predict growth based on initial conditions - Gave an oral presentation to field experts at the BMES conference in October 2021

Education

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Bachelor of Science - BS, Bioengineering
    2019 - 2023

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