Experiences at georgia institute of technology

M.S. Operations Research
Ph.D. Industrial Engineering (Applied Optimization)

MS, Public Policy, 2005 — 2007

Business class projects with BMW, Dos Pinos-Costa Rica

M.S. Electrical Engineering

Undergraduate degree in CompSci with some limited focus on Linguistics (to the extent that was offered at the time)

Research in Image Segmentation, Registration, and Tracking using Partial Differential Equations for Dr. Anthony Yezzi

I transferred to Georgia Tech from within the Regents Engineering Transfer Program my junior year of college. My major is Biomedical Engineering and I'm also taking classes to obtain my Entrepreneurship Certificate.

I received my doctorate at Georgia Tech in 1988. My doctoral thesis was titled, "A Surface Coupled Flamelet Approach to Dynamic Response in Heterogeneous Propellant Combustion."

Do well in college, get good GRE scores, etc. Finding an area of research about which you are passionate and contacting a professor working in that area can help too.

* Designed and developed high-frequency (50-100MHz) ultrasound elastography imaging system for visualization of human and porcine coronary vessels and atherosclerotic plaque with ultrasonic signal acquisition at high resolution.
* Developed Organ Culture System to keep keeping harvested human and porcine ex-vivo arteries at physiological conditions.
* Interfaced hardware i.e., Oscilloscope, Pulser-Receiver, Transducer with PC using GPIB, RS232
* Enabled software control and data acquisition using National Instruments Labview 7.x
* Designed and implemented algorithms to process ultrasonic signals in MathWorks MATLAB 7.0
* Conducted filtering and noise reduction of ultrasonic signals, estimated strains using cross-correlation
* Conducted Mechanical Ring testing of coronary vessels
* Exercised histology, animal handling, surgical procedures, giving anesthetics and drugs, blood collection and suturing in laboratory animals (rodents and pigs) and harvested explanted diseased human hearts (from Emory Hospital), experimental design of clinical studies, sterile surgical methods, grant writing...