Below is an abbreviated version of my curriculum vitae.

Education

Duke University, Durham, NC 
  • Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, 2014
  • B.S.E., Biomedical Engineering, 2007

Work Experience

Duke University Vision and Image Processing Laboratory, Durham, NC                                                                                           August 2009 - July 2014 
Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Engineering
  • Authored 19 peer-reviewed journal publications (5 first-author), 35 conference presentations (7 first-author), 3 patent applications, and 1 book chapter. Achieved 284 citations and h-index of 9 as of May 2014
  • Collaborated with ophthalmologists to engineer a graph-based computer algorithm in MATLAB that automatically detects and quantifies eye-related diseases
  • Enabled 9 research labs and a multicenter clinical trial to quantify ocular diseases up to 50 times faster than a retinal specialist, resulting in publications and abstracts by 25+ different first-authors
  • Presented unique research at conferences to groups of 100 – 200 people

Microsoft Corporation, Durham, NC                                                                                                                                                                      June 2007 - August 2009 
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) for Windows International
  • Designed and authored test plans for 3 Windows API components in Windows 7 to ensure their functionality, security, reliability, performance, and serviceability
  • Developed automated tests in C# for the 3 language support and service-based APIs, finding 15+ bugs across 6 different operating system languages
  • Created a tool in C# to analyze online word usage statistics with a user interface for data aggregation, resulting in successful integration of a new language detection API into Windows 7 and Bing Search
  • Coded over 100 Visual Studio projects in C, C++, and C#, incorporating software testing methodology to verify the projects with test code 
  • Built as a team an automated test framework similar to NUnit with logging to SQL and XML 
  • Awarded for Best Idea during the WI-GET Test Think Month for proposing a tool to streamline the code exchange process between co-workers and prevent versioning conflicts

Fellowships and Awards

Graduate School  
  • Best Research Presentation at the 2012 Duke Eye Center Residents and Fellows Day, June 23, 2012 
  • Best Research Presentation at the 2011 Duke Eye Center Residents and Fellows Day, June 24, 2011
  • National Eye Institute Travel Grant Award for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Conference, February 9, 2011.
  • Third Best Research Poster at the Duke Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics Annual Meeting, October 27, 2010.
  • Duke Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics John T. Chambers Scholar (2 years tuition + stipend), November 2, 2010
  • Best Research Presentation at the 2010 Duke Eye Center Residents and Fellows Day, June 25, 2010 

Microsoft  
  • Best Idea Award for the Microsoft Globalization Engineering Team Test Think Month, January 27, 2009