Cornell University, 1997-2001, College of Engineering, Ithaca, NY --BS in Biological and Environmental Engineering
MIT Biological Engineering PhD Candidate, started in Fall of 2001
Background
Born in Livermore, California, June 14th, 1979
Attended Harvard Summer School during Junior Summer of 1996
Started Cornell Fall of 1997
Summer and Winter intern at Lawrence Livermore National Lab in the Medical Photonics Group, conducted research with an ultrashort pulse laser for dental applications (link to publication)
Worked as an undergraduate in a machine shop, a research lab, and the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility on a biosensor project for Prof. Antje Baeumner
Fall 1999 and Summer 2000 Co-op for Merck & Co., Worked in Sterile Technology and Engineering on several vaccine and sterile pharma projects (including the Scale-Up and Engineering Batches of Cancidas)
Started MIT Fall of 2001
Teaching Assistant for the BE.109 Laboratory class, Spring 2003
Taught and Led the MIT Rock Climbing PE course, 2002-2004
Community Service Chair, Biological Engineering Division Graduate Student Board (website)
