• Developed a dynamic notification banner using React, fetching notifications from an API and displaying them on any React-based web page, improving user engagement and alert visibility.

• Designed and implemented a RESTful API using Node.js and AWS, enabling the program team to create, store, and manage notifications for customers, streamlining the notification management process.

• Integrated the notification banner into the organization's unified UI, supporting dynamic data fetching from the API, which enhanced system scalability and improved the team's efficiency in managing real-time customer alerts.

• Investigated attentional engagement in visual memory tasks using Brain-Computer Interfaces, integrating eye movement and visual card game tasks to study cognitive enhancement, leveraging electrooculogram (EOG) and electroencephalogram (EEG) signals for non-verbal communication analysis.

• Developed a machine-learning application for gaze detection, utilizing EOG and EEG signals in a camera-free, privacy-preserving wearable device (AttentivU).

• Co-author an IEEE conference paper focusing on signal processing and human interaction through digital health technologies.

• Automated the hiring process at Speechify by developing a web scraping tool.

• Organized 20+ corporate engagements, creating opportunities for student involvement in real-world consulting projects.

• Created an image analysis pipeline utilizing computer vision and MATLAB to identify defects in actin cytoskeleton development in Bitesize mutant embryos, improving detection rates by 60%.

• Co-designed a 4-week Python programming curriculum aimed at Ethiopian high school students with limited programming experience.

• Instructed 40 students through hands-on projects addressing community challenges, culminating in a capstone project.