Kyle Awayan

Creative student with a passion for programming and digital media. Seeking the opportunity to leverage my skills and experiences to help improve this world, while expanding my knowledge and sharing it with others.

Education

Experience

• Creating image processing pipelines and tools to collect and analyze data from lab experiments
• Using tools such as OpenCV, scikit-image, Python, PyQt, and MATLAB

• Creating tools for broad sharing of data from various research projects
• Includes creating web portals and interactive visualization tools using React, Python, NumPy, pandas, AWS, deck.gl, Three.js
• Web portals and interactive visualization tools attract more than 1,000+ page views annually
• Assisting colleagues with coding questions

• Captured special events (e.g.: quinceañeras, anniversaries, weddings)
• Invited photographer or videographer colleagues when needed
• Provided the team with guidelines on what to capture, and welcoming suggestions from them

Publications

• Shixuan Liu, et al. Kyle Awayan, ”An organism-wide atlas of hormonal signaling based on the mouse lemur single-cell transcriptome”, Nature Communications, March 2024
• Jonathan Liu, et al. Kyle Awayan, ”Concordance of MERFISH spatial transcriptomics with bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing”, Life Science Alliance, December 2022
• Merlin Lange, et al. Kyle Awayan, ”Zebrahub – Multimodal Zebrafish Developmental Atlas Reveals the State-Transition Dynamics of Late-Vertebrate Pluripotent Axial Progenitors”, bioRxiv, June 2023
• Jeanette Cobian-Iñiguez, Amir Hessam Aminfar, Shusmita Saha, Kyle Awayan, et al., ”The Transition and Spread of a Chaparral Crown Fire: Insights from Laboratory Scale Wind Tunnel Experiments”, Journal of Combustion, July 2022
• The Tabula Sapiens Consortium, ”The Tabula Sapiens: A multiple-organ, single-cell transcriptomic atlas of humans”, Science, May 2022

Selected Passion Projects

• Motivated by the challenge of locating vacant study/lounge rooms in college dorms
• Utilizes Raspberry Pi and Bluetooth for occupancy detection, records to PostgreSQL database
• Online interactive map created with React shows room occupancy in real-time
• Completed for the HackMerced VII Hackathon with three other team members, won "Best Hardware Hack"

• Curious to see my listening habits over time
• Created a Node.js application to periodically ping the Spotify Web API and record to a database
• Using InfluxDB and Grafana, complex queries can be made to analyze and visualize the data

• Had trouble learning and remembering names of band members
• Used the face_recognition Python library, powered by dlib and NVIDIA CUDA
• Used a sequential Keras model with TensorFlow for classification
• Used OpenCV to render overlays on the video of the face recognition results

• Created a desktop app that shows a user's currently playing song
• Collaborated with a colleague, took advantage of Git, GitHub, and GitHub Actions
• Used Electron, JavaScript, and the Spotify Web API
• PKCE was implemented to authenticate with the Spotify API
• Has 130+ stars on GitHub

• Constructed a frame that enclosed a two-way mirror and computer monitor
• Used an open-source Node.js based software for the interface
• Presented it at a local Maker Faire event

Skills