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December 2020
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About Joel Garrett
Companies & Work
Virginia Tech
-Developed and researched personal project combining insect internal flows with biomedical microfluidics
-Continued advanced training in research skills, technical writing, and experimentation
-Produced PowerPoint and poster presentations detailing research techniques and results
-Wrote scientific and technical documents according to journal publication standards
-Assisted other students and professors on entomology, comparative biology, and engineering projects
-Developed educational presentations for non-technical audiences
-Developed a mechanical understanding of the temporal coordination of insect internal respiratory structures
-Performed computer vision analysis on x-ray video of living tissue
-Developed mathematical and computational models of the fluid dynamics of micro-scale flow in the insect system
-Performed parametric analysis of network geometry and mechanical coordination in a multi-phase flow system
-Constructed an insect-inspired microfluidic network capable of producing valveless unidirectional flow
-Three publications in process
Virginia Tech
-Assisted head of Finance Information Security in cybersecurity upkeep tasks for the department
-Automated bi-weekly vulnerability scans to better allow IT staff to address incoming cybersecurity threats
-Developed training presentations and videos to improve departmental security practices
