Research Experience
I began my research career during my sophomore year, when I was selected to participate in the Gulf Scholars Program, a climate-justice focused initiative funded by the National Academies of Sciences and Medicine.
As a junior at Rice, I joined both the DeLucia Perception and Action and Kortum Human Factors Labs as an undergraduate research assistant.
In the summer of 2023, I was selected to participate in the Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program, a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates program.
During my senior year at Rice University, I conducted an honors thesis titled "Usability Assessment of Hospital Discharge Instructions."
Engineering Design Projects
Design Projects
As part of my Global Health Technologies minor, I have worked on several engineering design projects. The first was a prototype for an umbilical cord clamp for low-resource settings, which was awarded finalist status in the Malawi University of Science and Technology Global Health Hackathon in 2020.
My junior design project for this minor was a sanitary, easy-to-use reusable colostomy bag for low-resource settings. This project received the Best Technology for Low-Resource Settings Award at the Huff-OEDK Engineering Design Showcase in 2023.
My senior design project, titled "ScarStretch", focused on developing a low-cost, east-to-use wearable device to automate a massaging process commonly used to aid in scar tissue healing in low and middle income countries. For our work on this project my team was selected as a semi-finalist for the Rice360 Global Health Technologies Design Competition.