0.intro

hi, my name is jessica.

Science at the heart of everything I do.
Currently, I'm somewhere at the intersection between life science & computer science.


1.Education

science at the heart of everything I do.

I graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a B.S. in Nanoengineering and a minor in Chemistry in 2019.


A few years later, I pursued a post-bacc at Oregon State University, graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science.


With each company I worked at & each team I collaborated with, I learned about new technologies and refined my passions. Amongst countless variables, one constant is this: I have a bias for action.

2.About

ideate, iterate, & inspire.

Driven by a curiosity to learn more and a dedication to others, I have always been captivated by how our understanding of something leads to the development of more somethings.


With this initial sense of what I wanted to do, I studied Nanoengineering and worked in biotech and pharma for a few years. While working on a project, I learned more about computer science and how engineers would develop new applications and update existing features to support our endeavors.


This was my catalyst for change.

I started with learning Python and R on the side in order to analyze and visualize our datasets, and slowly began to write programs to simplify tasks. I was able to learn enough to get started, and enough to get things working - but not enough to ever fully be confident in my implementations, or the results they produced.


It felt like a fork in the road: I could either continue in medicinal chemistry, or take a deeper dive into programming. After much contemplation, I decided that I wanted to give this a "proper chance" - to learn the fundamentals, and to perservere through the gauntlet of classes.

Not "just enough," but everything.



I'm grateful for my experiences in research and am shifting my focus to software engineering, with a goal to work on innovative and robust tools to help others.

3.Projects

a few things i've worked on:

forestry wellness check-up

capstone project | cross-platform application | dart, flutter

An iOS and Android compatible application that digitizes the process of surveying forests. Provider was used for state management of widgets, and SQFlite was used as our lightweight, local relational database.

data analysis of structure-activity (sar) relationships

personal project | python, r

A project I worked on resulted in the generation of ~5,000 data points each week. This proved to be a challenge for our existing tools for analysis, as the data points began to overlap one another.

Literature References

- Finding Constellations in Chemical Space Through Core Analysis
- Nanoscale Synthesis and Affinity Ranking

chemystery resolver

personal project | chrome extension | javascript, html/css

Currently still a work in progress!
A chrome extension that allows users to highlight the IUPAC name of a chemical in their browsers and have a pop-up that displays the 2D chemical structure, molecular weight, and molecular formula.

- Recognize when user highlights text, and store the highlighted text in a variable. (Done)
- Display pop up when text is selected. (Done)
- Use an API to input the chemical name and request image of its structure (In Progress).