UC San Diego

I chose Bioengineering because I wanted to work on questions about the body. At UC San Diego, I worked in three labs: vascular scaffolds in the Mali Lab, neural-data analysis in the Integrated Systems Neuroengineering Lab, and artificial muscles in the Advanced Robotics and Controls Lab.

My internships covered iOS and Apple Watch apps at VMware, hearing technology at Earlens, and manufacturing at Potrero Medical. They gave me experience building and testing very different kinds of products.

For senior design, I collected motor-imagery EEG data and built a MATLAB pipeline that translated it into controls for a virtual environment. That project led me toward further study in neurotechnology.

I also played four years of club soccer and captained the team in the season we reached nationals.