Developed pyCBIR, an image recommendation software
Nominated for LBNL Director's Award (2017)
Recipient of LBNL Women@Lab Award (2018)
Recognized as Latina Scientist (2021)
PMWC Pioneer Award recipient (2023)
Engaged in scientific diplomacy through the U.S. Department of State’s TechWomen program
Background
Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Affiliated Faculty with the Bakar Institute at UC San Francisco
Affiliate Researcher at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), UC Berkeley
Leads the Machine Learning (ML) team for CAMERA (Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications) at LBNL
Has researched, developed, and deployed advanced algorithms for scientific data analysis since 1996
Research focuses on computer vision, quantitative analysis of microscopy data (e.g., X-ray, electron, tomography), high-resolution/high-throughput imaging, and application of ML (e.g., Transformers) to natural language processing
Collaborates with UC San Francisco on algorithms for cell counting and biomedical image analysis