Experience

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  Research on autism and development laboratory

  Sept 2013 - Jun 2014

  Undergradute research assistant

  RADLab is a research group associated with the department of Neuroscience in the UC San Diego School of Medicine. As an undergraduate research assistant, I used electroencephalography (EEG), eye-tracking, motion capture and behavioral testing to study sensory processing and motor function in autistic and control subjects. I collaborated with project scientists in experimental design, set-up, and data collection. I performed EEG analysis including data cleaning, artifact removal, and various forms of information extraction via EEGLab Matlab toolbox Show less

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  Salk institute for biological studies

  Jul 2014 - Jun 2016

  Student intern

  For two years, I conducted research at the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory (CNL) at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences. As part of my responsibilities, I performed Western Blotting, RT-qPCR and immunofluorescence to study changes in gene expression in a mouse model for schizophrenia. I coordinated with other scientists, attended regular lab meetings, and contributed to the generation of data for a number of scientific projects.

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  Uc san diego

  Mar 2015 - Sept 2016

  Instructional assistant

  As an instructional assistant, I taught a weekly discussion section for courses in the department of Biological Science. I attended regular meetings with the primary instructor and I assisted in writing and grading exams and problem sets assigned to students.

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  Youth and leaders living actively, san diego

  Apr 2016 - Jul 2016

  Tutor-mentor

  YALLA is a non-profit organization that serves a community of Iraqi and Afghani refugees in El Cajon, California. As a tutor-mentor, I worked closely with a professional educator to tutor children of various grade levels in English Math.

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  The princeton review

  Nov 2016 - Aug 2017

  Biology instructor