Juliana Wang

Experience

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  Engineers Without Borders (Rice University)

  Aug 2016 - May 2019

  • Document and assist the design of a pump-assisted gravity-fed water distribution system for 2,000 people in Sabadell, a rural community in Nicaragua• Communicate with Spanish and technical teams to write technical papers for wellbeing engineering projects in Nicaragua, survey local community members in Nicaragua to determine needs of the community• Lead a documentation team of 3 students in efficient technical writing and communication for official documentation

  • Documentation Team Lead

    May 2017 - May 2019

  • Documentation Team Member, Hydraulics Team Member

    Aug 2016 - May 2017
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  Catalyst: Rice Undergraduate Research Journal

  Aug 2016 - May 2020

  • Lead a team of 25 designers and coordinate with the writing directors to create article designs for Catalyst, the Rice University undergraduate science research journal, as well as Eureka, Catalyst’s high school outreach program• Organize design timelines and deadlines, lead workshops with instructive presentations on using Adobe Creative Suite• Communicate with article authors to create original attractive designs for the articles using Adobe InDesign and Illustrator

  • Director of Design

    May 2018 - May 2020

  • Assistant Director of Design, Senior Designer

    May 2017 - May 2018

  • Design Team Member

    Aug 2016 - May 2017
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  Diehl Lab for Synthetic Biology and Cellular Engineering

  Feb 2017 - Dec 2018

  Research Assistant

  • Perform wet and dry lab tasks to build a library of customizable immunomodulatory target cells that will comprehensively represent antigens and ligands displayed by several metastases• Optimize cell growth, proliferation, and uptake of fluorescent markers to prepare cells for fluorescent microscopy• (Summer 2018) Developed a MATLAB program to automate a manual process of image contrast analysis of fluorescent cell images with ImageJ

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  Grande-Allen Lab for Integrative Matrix Mechanics

  Aug 2017 - May 2019

  Laboratory Assistant

  • Head research project about the presence of women editors in bioengineering journals, involves large-scale organization with Google Sheets and heavy usage of Web of Science database• Perform lab management tasks such as cleaning supplies, restocking, and taking inventory of all chemicals and supplies

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  Rice Office of Information Technology

  Oct 2017 - Mar 2020

  Student Computing Consultant

  • Support students and faculty with computer, network, and printing issues• Perform software and hardware upgrades and fixes, such as hard drive backup, virus removal and protection, and data recovery

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  Viseon Inc.

  May 2019 - Jul 2019

  Intern

  • Created fixtures to align the mirror and lens of a miniature camera system for minimally invasive spinal surgery• Optimized camera system to increase resolution and reduce latency for higher surgical visualization accuracy

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  Liferaft

  Mar 2021 - now

  • Product Associate

    Jun 2021 - now

  • Independent Contractor

    Mar 2021 - Jun 2021