Education and Motivation

I'm an aspiring data scientist who graduated from UCLA with a degree in biochemistry. Although originally a premed student, while conducting my senior year internship at a biotech company, InjectSense, I was exposed to programming and the growing impact of machine learning in healthcare.

As I learned more from the company, my fascination grew. I read studies about how people were creating deep learning models that could analyze images from MRIs to find deformities imperceptible to doctors, or how they could predict the outcomes of drug-DNA interactions, streamlining expensive, time-consuming trials and lab work. The medical industry was being revolutionized and I wanted to be a part of it.

After I graduated I took a flexible EMT position where I could teach myself coding while keeping the medical or graduate school route open. It wasn't long before it became clear to me that programming, especially manipulating and analyzing datasets, was something that I found especially stimulating and enjoyable. Now, I am currently enrolled in the MSDS program at USF and will be applying for data science jobs in 2024.

Activities

In my free-time you would most likely catch me doing some of my favorite activities:

• Rock climbing, outdoors and in the gym
• Reading, especially science fiction
• Improving my photography
• Hiking, road-trips, and backpacking
• Practicing my French language skills
• Team sports: soccer, baseball and basketball