I was elected Corporate Chair for the 2019-2020 academic year, allowing me to increase my impact after serving as a committee member in the year prior.

I connected WICS with four major tech sponsors, raised nearly 5k in sponsorship funds, and secured events for the year with 10 different organizations.

I organized our annual Mock Technical Interview, where I was able to get each of 80 students scheduled for 30 minute practice interviews with one of 15 participating engineers from well known tech companies. I was able to achieve the highest amount of participating companies, students, and engineers the event has seen in recent years, achieving my goal of offering every student that applied the chance to secure an interview.

I put together a Negotiation Panel for women in tech. The panel of all women included an established negotiation expert from UCI's business school and industry professionals from Google, Redfin and Experian. This event was powerful, inspiring, and provided our members with the tools to successfully negotiate in their future positions.

NASA JPL x UCI

09.18 - 06.19

I participated in a 10 month research project for NASA JPL x UCI focused on the development of a simulation-based game to educate users on the effects of global warming. I used three.js to integrate 3D elements into the glacier simulation, and HTML, PHP, Javascript, and CSS for the game elements, UI, and all other components.

UCI

03.19 - Present

Assisted in educational research for computer science. The program (Collaborative Network of Educators for Computational Thinking for All Research) exposes Title I 3rd to 5th grade school students to computer science concepts through teaching them Scratch, and I assist in grading their projects to help develop evaluation standards, coding their interviews, and contributing to research questions.

UCI

09.19 - 12.19

I worked as a researcher on SANA (Simulated Annealing Network Aligner), a fast, efficient, global network alignment algorithm that graphs and aligns user-input networks (schematically). I was able to make the Linux-specific program written in C++ operable on Mac OS machines by rewriting/converting code that was not compatible across operating systems. By the end of my time on this project, one version of the codebase could be run on either operating system, allowing participants using Apple computers to finally work on the project without needing to remote into Linux machines. My contribution helped the researchers on this project work more efficiently, after several years of this limitation.

UCI x Indiana University

06.20 - Present

I'm currently working as an REU to assist in evaluating and refining undergraduate cyber security curriculum. My role involves documenting qualitative observations of the recorded lectures, the lesson plans, and making recommendations to improve each module. I also code student interviews reflecting on learnings from the series, and document trending topics that arise. Additionally, I helped code student interviews evaluating the effects of the shift to a virtual learning environment (due to COVID-19) for a senior capstone course, and was one of the editors on the research paper written on the results.