Non-academic highlights

Group photo at the Unwrapathon hackathon with participants outdoors

Unwrap Hackathon 2025

I took part in the Unwrapathon, a hackathon hosted by Unwrap.ai, and our team won the prize for the addressing-misinformation track. We built a Chrome extension that fact-checks a health article by surfacing relevant research papers.

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SELie team presenting at the UCSB New Venture Fair with project board

New Venture Fair 2023

For the second year in a row, my team was one of twenty selected to present at the New Venture Fair (NVC semi-finals) at UC Santa Barbara. Our product, SELie, helps children build emotion regulation skills. It was a great chance to pitch and gather feedback.

MELIUS project poster: prioritizing mental health with wearable and behavioral data

New Venture Fair 2022

I presented our idea at the New Venture Competition at UCSB. As a team of two, we built an app to help address under-resourced mental health support for university students using wearable and behavioral data. We were selected from twenty teams to move on to the next round.

Featured by Women in AI Asia Pacific

I was glad to be included in the #NextInAICampaign from Women in AI, Women in AI Asia Pacific (APAC), and WaiCOUNCIL (Women in AI India).

TechTogether 2020 team at the IBM table after winning the research challenge

Tech Together Hackathon 2020

IBM Research Challenge winning team · DELL Driving Human Progress Challenge winners

I had a great experience at TechTogether 2020 with a passionate, hardworking team. Our project was “Drug Re-purposing for Cancer: A Data-Driven Approach,” using the dataset from IBM.

WRAMP cohort holding Worcester Polytechnic Institute certificates of completion

WRAMP (Women in Research and Mentorship Program), Dec 2019

I completed WRAMP at WPI, mentoring two high school students and one undergraduate through a semester-long research project. Our capstone was “Data Science for Social Good.” It was a rewarding program to be part of.

Open final project (Google Drive)