Pho Hale

"Dose" app

An app to log and analyze patterns of medication self-administration. Allows the user to record both collected quantitative data (such as heart rate) and subjective qualitative experiences (like perceived pain or mood) along with notes.

EEG Headset Project

Records brainwaves attained via a self-constructed EEG Headset Hardware and presents them for visual comparison and numeric analysis. Graphical frontend is capable of presenting, recording, and analyzing collected brainwave data either broadcast in real-time over a bluetooth or wifi connection, or previously recorded to the hardware headset’s internal storage.

tDCS Stimulator

The goal of this project was to design a tDCS circuit from scratch that would automatically limit the current allowed through the electrodes to ensure both consistent test conditions as well as the safety of the subject.

Scientific Software Contractor

Provided both technical guidance and custom software to computational ecologists developing dynamical food web models.

• Assisted computational ecologists with converting existing single-threaded simulations (written in MATLAB) into distributed simulations capable of taking advantage of the available campus HPC (high performance computing) resources. Presented parallel computing workshops for computational ecologists.
• Assisted with job scheduling on HPC clusters for simulation of food web dynamics.
• Modernized and Maintained Network3D, a legacy .Net C# application used to visualize complex food webs and make predictions about their dynamics. The primary interface is created in OpenGL, and it renders an interactive 3D Graph with weighted nodes and directed/weighted edges.

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Student

Project on exploiting adaptive protocols in packet-based broadband wireless networks. I simulated covert communications through LTE systems in MATLAB and presented my work to the Information and Telecommunication Technology Center at the University of Kansas in a talk titled "A Concise Introduction to Practical LTE Systems."

Undergraduate Honors Thesis

An independent research project that used formal mathematical principles to explore feasible designs and limitations of quantum computers. I reviewed and synthesized the primary literature relevant to quantum computing in a report titled "A coherent quantum architecture from first-principles." I submitted this project as an undergraduate thesis and defended it orally to a panel of three faculty members chaired by Dr. Seguin.

Scientific IT

Designed and maintained lab website. Participated in lab meetings and provided software training and information technology assistance.

Neuroscience Lab Technician

Administration of transcranial direct current and magnetic stimulation (tDCS and TMS) to test subjects. Completed HIPAA and Human Subjects training.

Software Engineering Intern

Developed software in C, C++, and Assembly language for both communication and navigation products. Was offered a full time position but declined in order to focus on academics.

• Worked in a collaborative environment and developed team communication skills.
• Tested software using both software and hardware debuggers.
• Performed software releases and software quality assurance activities.
• Worked with a variety of different IDEs on a multitude of platforms.
• Performed maintenance activities for products already in production in addition to new product software design.

University of Michigan

Kamran Diba's Lab

The University of Kansas

GPA: 3.72