Rohan D.

External Vice President

Rice University Student Association

Present

- Represent 4500+ students as part of the executive board of Rice University’s Student Association, the governing body of all undergraduate students enrolled at Rice University and the 300+ student organizations - Actively communicate with Rice University senior administration, offices, and faculty on student issues

Senator

Rice University Student Association

- Represented 400+ students from McMurtry Residential College in Rice University’s Student Association - Specifically worked with Rice Dining to advocate for student opinions on meal plans and dining options

Research Intern

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Present

IDEAS Lab (Surgical Innovation) - working on surgical robotics to develop autonomous tools to streamline operating room procedure

Research Fellow

Houston Methodist

Present

Gateno Surgical Planning Lab - use computation (especially AI) to facilitate and automate the surgical planning process (such as predicting post-operative patient appearance) and improve patient outcomes

Research Intern

Baylor College of Medicine

Present

ATLAS Lab - Developed two apps for surgical training in collaboration with surgeons and surgical residents - Working on using GPT models to enhance patient comprehension of medical notes, especially across language barriers, to improve patient outcomes - Surgical education app projects include compilation of vessel dissection and exposure instructions into a uniform, navigable UI, and compilation of angiographic projections mapped to their coronary angulation and corresponding heart orientation for facilitated visualization

Independent Researcher

Texas Children's Hospital

- Used TCH private dataset to develop algorithm to predict the correct medical imaging order for a patient based on the patient’s symptoms using natural language processing and machine learning - Algorithm works with 93% accuracy, 19% more than the average physician, serving to reduce the risk brought by imaging order selection inaccuracy - Earned 3rd place Grand Award in Systems Software at Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair 2023

Team Captain - Software

Robo Sapiens Robotics Team · Sugar Land, Texas, United States

- As software lead, implemented technologies like odometry, PIDF control, vision, and ML - Qualified for FIRST World Championship twice (2022, 2023); reached division semifinals both years - Ranked 11th overall team globally in 2022 at FIRST World Championship, reaching quarterfinals elimination round

Research Intern, Samuel Lab

Baylor College of Medicine

Worked under a graduate student researching the role of SIRPa, a signaling protein, in microglial activation in the murine vision system