Hello! My name is Arion and I'm a student studying molecular and cellular biology @ UIUC. The realm of biology I (currently) enjoy most is some mixture of imaging, bioinformatics, and systems biology. Currently my primary interests lie in the application of machine learning and computational analysis to biological concepts. When I have rare additional time, I enjoy spending time talking about football (American and European) and reading (currently working through Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky). I also have a academic interest in philosophy, specifically ethics and metaphysics, as well as Hindu philosophy such as Advaita Vedanta.

Research

• Mobility and Fall Prevention Research Laboratory (FA23-Present)

  • Developing a model of fall risk and frailty using an analysis pipeline built in R.
  • Characterizing differences in postural control in community dwelling older adults using clinical measures.
  • Model changes in postural control strategy using MATLAB stochastic control model.

• Biomedical Engineering and Informatics Intern @ Weis Lab (SU24-Present)

Club(s)

• Member of UIUC BMES: UIUC Chapter of Biomedical Engineering Society (FA23 - Present)
  • Using Alphafold in order to find a shape of a protein based on a specific amino acid sequence or chain. The deep learning system will allow us to identify and perform predictions of protein structures. We want to identify protein components in order to link amino acids to activity of something in the body of an organism. To be presented at the SP 24 Engineering Open House

Research

Biomedical Engineering and Informatics Intern @ Weis Lab

• Duration: SU 23
• Location: Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
• Responsibilities:
  • Developed an ImageJ plugin with Java to quantify biomarker distribution along the gastrointestinal unit axis.
  • Created novel computational analysis pipelines and contributed to the development of computational model-based image analysis methodologies to guide cancer microscopy imaging analysis.
  • Writing a process paper titled "XXXX: A gastrointestinal spatial pathology plugin for ImageJ" (In Progress, plugin title TBA).

Research Assistant

• Duration: FA 22 - SP 23
• Location: UIUC Language & Learning Lab, Urbana-Champaign, IL
• Responsibilities:
  • Used internal tools to code and analyze audio data.
  • Assisted in the development of further internal tooling with Python.
  • Focused on analyzing large naturalistic datasets with computational modeling techniques.

Research Assistant: Removing Motion Effects in Brain MRIs

• Duration: SP 22 - SU 22
• Location: Informatics Skunkworks University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
• Responsibilities:
  • Used deep learning correction methods to correct rapid motions during an MRI with PyTorch.
  • Improved motion correction for challenging cases with an abundance of rapid motion using Machine Learning.

Research Assistant: Optimizing Work Functions of Perovskite Oxides

• Duration: FA 21
• Location: Informatics Skunkworks University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
• Responsibilities:
  • Utilized computational statistical analysis to verify the strength of data.
  • Analyzed the data of Perovskite Oxides using MongoDB.

Internships

• Software Engineering Intern @ Site IQ (SU22)