Research Assistant at Massachusetts General Hospital
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Research Assistant at Massachusetts General Hospital
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
am currently a student in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Having graduated with my B.S. in Bioengineering in three years, I am using my fourth year to obtain a thesis-based M.S. in the same field under the supervision of Professor Rohit Bhargava. In the fall of 2009 I will enter the Bioengineering Ph.D. program at Stanford University where I plan to do my graduate studies in molecular imaging and/or synthetic biology.
I have over nine years of computer science experience, and I am proficient in C++, Java, MATLAB, ENVI/IDL, PHP, ASP.NET and MySQL. The present site also serves as my web design studio, and I have created designs and coded backends for many websites since its inception.
For more information, please visit my interactive resumé at http://fenguin.net/resume.
Biomedical imaging, Bioengineering, Web Design
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Biotechnology industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)
I am conducting research in Fourier Transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy under Rohit Bhargava. I currently have two ongoing projects; I am investigating the automated diagnosis of skin neoplasia using a Bayesian classification algorithm, and I am designing (with a teammate) a fiber optic probe that will enable in vivo infrared spectra acquisition.
During the summer of 2006, I was given a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Fellowship to continue my infrared spectroscopy research.
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)
I will obtain my BS in bioengineering in May 2008, followed by a MS in the same field in May 2009. My research interests include infrared spectroscopy, optical coherence tomography, among other biomedical imaging modalities.
(Non-Profit; Hospital & Health Care industry)
June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)
Working for Prof. Gary Tearney under the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Summer Institute in Biomedical Optics.
(E-Learning industry)
December 2006 — August 2008 (1 year 9 months)
I teach classes in high school competition mathematics, especially AMC, AIME, and USAMO. I train students ranging from no mathematics experience to within the top 5% nationwide, with the ultimate goal of reaching the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (top <1% nationally).
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Biotechnology industry)
June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)
As part of the HST Summer Institute in Biomedical Optics, I conducted research in optical coherence tomography (OCT) under Johannes F. de Boer and B. Hyle Park. My project involved finding a way to reduce coherent speckle through wavefront modulation.
BS/MS , Bioengineering , 2005 — 2009
2001 — 2005
Biomedical imaging, nanotechnology, medicine, skydiving, tennis, swimming, weightlifting
Deans list, James scholar, Robert C. Byrd scholar, Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society, Golden Key Honor Society