Work with thought leaders and academic experts from Truman State University

Undergraduate Researcher / August, 2010 — May, 2012

Constructed a procedure to apply sol-gel thin films to fiber optic cables, Performed Scanning Electron Microscopy to assess the quality of the coating | Skills: Sol-Gel Preparation, UV-Vis Spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy

Graduate Teaching Assistant / August, 2012 — May, 2017

Prepared and taught labs for Analytical Chemistry I, Physical Chemistry II, General Chemistry I and II

Graduate Researcher / July, 2012 — December, 2017

 Created a method to construct and apply networks to units of electrochemical reactions  Explored the impact of network topology and unit heterogeneity on network behavior  Built code in LabVIEW, MATLAB, and R to collect and analyze data as well as to simulate the experiments  Designed community outreach demonstration experiments for the research | Skills: Potentiometry, Anode-Cathode Systems, Electrochemical Cells, LabVIEW, MATLAB, R, TeXworks, 3D printing, Autodesk Eagle, AutoCAD

Post-Doctoral Researcher / August, 2018 — Present

 Used network medicine approaches to predict food-drug and food-disease associations  Gathered and disambiguated resources on food composition and protein-protein interactions  Led metabolomics projects and analyzed metabolomics data  Performed both statistical and machine learning analysis of metabolomics and food composition data  Designed a machine learning/artificial intelligence pipeline to predict biochemical-protein interactions  Led and aided the development of grant proposals to both private and government organizations  Lead and organize multiple teams towards the completion of lab projects | Skills: Network Science, Data Science, Python, Metabolomics, Network Medicine, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, Google Cloud Platform