Projects
Floppy Fish (2023): a simple remake of the classic game Flappy Bird, created on Unity with hand-drawn animations.
Color Extraction (2023): a program to separate colors based on a given 9-color palette, intended to simulate the French chromolithography process. Final project for HSAR 019 (first year seminar: Matters of Color).
Problem of the Week (2021-23): a series of STEM-related problem of the week server for high school students, with student submitted problems and automated leaderboards & answer submissions.
Research
Yale University, Gerstein Lab, Undergraduate Research Assistant (2024-present): Research in molecular dynamics; creating a pipeline for computational drug discovery through interactive simulations between transitional protein conformations and experimental ligands.
Yale University, Fan Lab, Summer Intern (2022): Conducted independent research on analysis of single-cell CAR T cell data using R, literature, and statistical analysis; performed comparative analysis on CAR T cell data from healthy donor and patients with varying responses to therapy. Poster
UC Santa Cruz, VERITAS Collaboration, Research Assistant (2020-21): Working with two other interns, wrote scripts using the Fermipy library to analyze gamma-ray emission of blazars in contribution to creating the EBL skymap. Publications and conferences:
- Gamma Ray Analysis of the Most Energetic Blazars to Probe the Cosmos. Yashika Batra, Je-Won Im, Nathan Nguyen.
- Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, 2020
- Sigma Xi Student Research Showcase, 2021
- American Physical Society:
UC Santa Cruz, DEEP-Theory Group, Summer Intern (2021): With two other interns, coded a yt-compatible model of the circumgalactic medium, using mock stream simulations and relevant libraries including Trident and the yt project.