RESEARCH

DABIRI Lab: Bio, Mechanical, and Fluids Research

Conducted research at the intersection of mechanical, bio, and fluids engineering. Designed a cost-effective experiment from scratch that isolated the effects of temperature and viscosity on jellyfish morphology as a model organism for other oceanic species.

During my research, I both learned, and self-taught myself a variety of skills:

• Experimental design.
• How to operate a rheometer and viscometer.
• Object and image tracking via Matlab.
• Setup of aquariums; pumping, tubings, connecting valves, and flow regulation within a tank.
• Jellyfish husbandry and developmental regulation, and preparation of strobilation chemical.
• Data collection and cleaning; 400+ hours spent in lab and parsed over 60 hours of footage.