I am a first year M.S.-Ph.D. student in chemical engineering in Professor Venkat’s Complex Resilient Intelligent Systems (CRIS) group. I grew up between Istanbul and Paris and earned my B.S. in ChemE from Columbia in May ’22. For my undergraduate research, I applied computational techniques to analyze hyperpolarized MRI scans of COPD patients to get information about lung microstructure, which resulted in my publication "Mapping of the Alveolar Partial Pressure of Oxygen using Hyperpolarized Helium-3: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) COPD Study” in Tomography (September 2022), which I also presented in the 2021 European Respiratory Society congress. I then completed a year-long rotation program at Piramal Pharma Solutions with four months each in active pharmaceutical ingredients at their MI plant, aseptic fill-finish technologies in KY, and solid/liquid drugs in PA, where I learned both about the technical and regulatory aspects of drug manufacturing. Presently, I am focusing pharmaceutical applications of hybrid AI models.
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