Professional experience
Freelance, multiple clients; spring 2011–present
- Solve information design problems, furnish clients with warm-fuzzy-feeling.
- Started a studio: Keming Labs.
R&D Engineer, Qmedtrix Systems; fall 2009–spring 2011
- Design and build in-house data visualization and machine learning algorithms for detecting medical bill fraud
- Hired after delivering a project to the company as a contractor
Book Designer, Perfectly Scientific Press; fall 2009
- Designed a reusable book template and several covers for a specialty scientific publishing company
Baker, Patisserie Lili; summer 2007–spring 2009
- Converted flour, sugar, soda, butter, and fruit into loaves, tarts, pastries, cookies, cakes, &c. via precise mixture and controlled application of heats
Research / papers
Medical bill visual analytics, Qmedtrix Systems; fall 2010
Geometry & protein evolution, Boston University Bioinformatics Graduate Program; summer 2009
- Worked with Dr. Brandon Xia and PhD candidate Eric Franzosa on the relationship of protein structure with residue conservation
- See “Proceedings of 4th ESCEC Symposium”, Structural Correlates of Protein Melting Temperature, Franzosa, E.A., Lynagh, K.J. and Xia, Y. (html, pdf)
- Funded by National Science Foundation REU grant CHE-0649114
Phosphocholine membrane in [bmim]+ [BF4]–, personal project; spring 2009
- Lipid bilayer formation in room temperature ionic liquids: designed and built an apparatus to electronically detect possible bilayer formation in RTILs, with the aim of finding a viscous solvent with high conductivity to address the gain-bandwidth limits of current amplifiers for DNA nanopore sequencing
- Inferred blockage of ~100μm diameter pore upon lipid addition from dropoff of alternating ionic current
- Work supported by a Reed College Melon Foundation Opportunity Grant
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Results writeup (pdf)
Organic synthesis, Reed College Chemistry Department; fall 2006–spring 2007
- Worked with Dr. Pat McDougal in his fall ‘06 Adv. Organic Synthesis Lab, and in his spring '07 research lab
- Investigated the SN2 addition of cyanide to a tropine mesylate: explored a synthetic route to possibly form a carboxylic acid tropine derivative with intermolecular hydrogen bonding
- Optimized the yields of nucleophilic addition and Pd catalyzed aromatization reactions: varied reaction conditions and catalysts to optimize a path to a novel class of compounds with intramolecular hydrogen bonds
Education
Physics, Reed College, Portland, OR. fall 2006–spring 2010