MusicMap

Sep 2022 - Jan 2023

MusicMap was a class project I worked on with a team of 6 for my Database Systems class. Together, we developed a React Native application using MongoDB for the backend that allows users to track songs played and memories made during road trips. I designed and implemented a friendship request system and added a search feature to find friends by name and Spotify username. I also worked on creating the frontend and backend for the app's profile page, which performs API calls to authenticate users via Spotify login and displays the user's Spotify information, including their profile picture, number of friends, and sent and received requests.

Haplotype Calling Pipeline

Jan 2022 - May 2023

I worked as a student researcher at the Duke Malaria Collaboratory for a year and a half during the school year, building a bioinformatic pipeline using the workflow management system Snakemake. The pipeline takes in raw data and outputs relevant sample-level haplotype information. I also got the opportunity to use the pipeline I developed to analyze the correlation of drug-resistance allele frequencies in children and different pools of pregnant women located in regions of Mozambique. For the work I have done with this project, I will be listed as a co-author on one of the postdoc's manuscripts, which presents an optimization study on amplicon deep sequencing of malaria parasite marker genes from dried blood spots, showcasing successful haplotype recovery while addressing challenges related to false positive rates, low-density samples, and minority haplotypes. It's super cool to think that my contributions, no matter how small, are making an impact in the field of malaria studies, and it inspires me to continue pursuing opportunities where I can make even bigger positive changes in the future!

Todo App

July 2023

This to-do app is a project I developed using Next.js, Prisma, and PlanetScale that allows users to add, check off, and delete tasks, with buttons to filter tasks based on completion. The frontend is built with React, and it communicates with the backend API implemented with Next.js serverless functions. The backend uses Prisma as the ORM to interact with the MySQL database hosted on PlanetScale, which provides scalability and reliability for the app's data storage. PlanetScale has since retired their free plan, so this doesn't work anymore, but it was a fun project I made to practice and improve my full-stack development skills 🙂