Valentina D'souza

Experience

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  Saifee Hospital

  Jun 2019 - Jun 2019

  Biomedical Intern
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  Siemens Healthineers

  Dec 2019 - Dec 2019

  Customer-Service Department Intern
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  Xeuron

  Jan 2020 - Feb 2020

  Technical Executive
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  Laboratory of Computational Intensive Care Medicine

  Oct 2021 - May 2023

  Graduate Student Researcher

  - Leading a research initiative aimed at preprocessing and extracting meaningful features from physiologic time series Intracranial pressure waveforms from the brain recorded at frequencies higher than 125 Hz- Identified distinct groups (phenotypes) in brain- injury patients utilizing clustering techniques to predict outcomes in unique groups

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  The Johns Hopkins University

  Jun 2022 - Dec 2022

  Mentoring students in Gateway Computing: Python programming course. Responsible for grading assignments, debugging assignment submissions, and providing assistance during live lectures and guiding students one-on-one during office hours. Assisting students enrolled in Pre- college Summer School for Neurobiology Cellular and Systems course

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

  • Teaching Assistant

    Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
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  Kennedy Krieger Institute

  Jun 2022 - May 2023

  Graduate Student Research Assistant

  - Constructed a workflow for pre-processing high dimensional CEST data and generated training data by Lorentzian lineshape-based fitting approaches- Developed an ML model for speeding the parameter quantification process of CEST (chemical exchange saturation transfer) MRI images by a time factor of 85% compared to traditional methods- Incorporated the physics through differential equations in an ML model that helped quantify the parameters with less training data

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  Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

  Jun 2023 - now

  • Machine Learning Engineer II

    Jan 2025 - now

  • Machine Learning Engineer I

    Jun 2023 - Jan 2025