Resume

I am a senior at Khan Lab School focused on synthetic biology, engineering, and Computer Science. I lead the KhanLab-BayArea iGEM team and my school's Speech and Debate team. I have research experience through NASA GeneLab, Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab, and UCLA.

averysdavis.comaverydavis9@proton.megithub.com/averysdavis

Experience

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International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM)Team Lead, KhanLab-BayArea Team

Co-leading a team of 25+ students and mentors across 8 schools through an international synthetic biology competition. Engineering 2 full stack documentation websites serving as primary knowledge repositories for projects, delivering 20+ biology workshops to 200+ K-12 students and senior citizens with multilingual instruction.

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Speech and Debate, Khan Lab SchoolPresident

Organizing weekly practice for 20+ students, teaching public speaking skills, organizing tournament sign ups and finances.

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Khan Lab SchoolStudent Teacher, Frontend Web Development

Taught 4 students frontend web development, including HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap, for a semester long course. Topics covered included code editors, git, web accessibility, JavaScript libraries, and more.

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Stanford Deliberative Democracy LabClimate Research Fellow

Mapped Bay Area heat patterns using QGIS, identifying artificial turf as heat island driver. Quantified artificial turf temperature correlation across 5 sites, finding higher temperatures in high schools.

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NASA GeneLabBioinformatics Student Intern

Processed omics data with Python & Jupyter Notebooks to investigate plant adaptation to spaceflight conditions. Led team of 4 across 3 timezones, coordinating 10+ hours of virtual collaboration for capstone project. Analyzed Arabidopsis gene variants under spaceflight, discovering upregulation in cell wall loosening under heat stress. Presented findings on spaceflight-induced genetic adaptation to NASA GeneLab directors & 180 researchers.

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Genes In Diseases and Symptoms (miRcore)Genomics Student Researcher

Analyzed Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) datasets to identify pathways associated with Frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Used Python & R to visualize data for 500+ samples, uncovering patterns in gene repression & expression. Authored scientific paper & presented FTD genomic findings to 15+ researchers & principal investigators.

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UCLA COSMOSStudent

Collected plant samples & analyzed physiological measurements across 83 different plant species. Applied t-tests to identify differences in water mass, leaf area, & carbon-13 concentration between desert & forest plants. Processed NASA satellite data using QGIS across 37,161 acres, producing geospatial analysis of 2024 Shelly Fire.

Awards

Gold Medal

International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition,

Village Award Nomination

International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition,

Silver Medal

International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition,

Gold Medal

Global Open Genetic Engineering Competition (GOGEC),

Quorum's Choice Award

Global Open Genetic Engineering Competition (GOGEC),

Best Experimental Project Runner-up

Global Open Genetic Engineering Competition (GOGEC),

Published Temperature Map of the 2024 Shelly Fire

NASA (JPL),

Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Community Service

Senator Dave Cortese,

Education

High School Diploma

Khan Lab School,

Relevant coursework: Calculus BC, Biology, Physics & Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Physics C: Mechanics, JavaScript, Statistics

Dual Enrollment

Foothill College,

Relevant coursework: Fundamentals of Chemistry, Object Oriented Programming Methodologies in Java, Ethical Hacking

Skills

Bioinformatics

FastQC (3)STAR (3)Trim Galore (3)

Coding Languages

CSS (5)HTML (5)Java (4)JavaScript (4)Python (3)

Data Science

Matplotlib (3)NumPy (3)Pandas (3)

Geospatial

ArcGIS (5)QGIS (5)

Infrastructure

YAML (4)

Languages

Chinese (Simplified) (5)English (5)Chinese (Traditional) (3)Hokkien (3)Korean (2)Tagalog (1)

Web Development

Bootstrap (5)CSS (5)HTML (5)JavaScript (4)Jinja (4)jQuery (4)