AARON CONG

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EDUCATION

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, Ithaca, NY September 2012 - May 2013

Masters of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering (Diagnostics and Instrumentation)

• Honor: Won 2nd Prize at Yale Graduate Case Competition (out of 45 Ivy League Teams)

• Leadership: Chair of Professional Development of Biomedical Engineering Society to provide professional

development resources including alumni relations and recruiting

• Activities: Cornell Graduate Consulting Club, Technology Entrepreneurship Group, Cornell BIG Idea Competition

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, Rochester, NY September 2008 - May 2012

Dual degrees: B.A. in Physics & B.S. in Optics concentrated in Medical Optics Design

• Honor: Cum Laude; High Distinction; Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society

• Leadership: Teaching Assistant: College Physics I&II, Mathematics IV

• Activities: Optical Society of America (OSA), Honor Society of Physics (SPS), Fencing Club

INDUSTRY & LABORATORY EXPERIENCE

Smith & Nephew Endoscopy, Andover, MA July 2013 – Present (9 months)

Research & Development Mechanical (Optical) Engineer Intern

• Design and build prototype components and fixtures for surgical camera with Solidworks CAD models and drawings

• Cooperate with global vendors/ suppliers to design, and evaluate new optical product prototype in terms of

Optical/thermal performance while ensuring design in compliance with related medical device standards

• Lead design and implementation of endoscope MTF and Spectral measurement system by defining system

specifications and communicating requirements to vendors

• Carry medical device design from design verification to validation while documenting test protocol/report/operating

procedures in standard R&D document control format and present results to senior level

Olympus Endoscopy /Gyrus ACMI, Stamford, CT July 2010 - August 2010

Optical Engineering Co-op

• Implemented graphical product flow diagram to illustrate assembly line operations, which enhanced factory

management effectiveness by identifying potential product quality risk at each operation station.

• Improved the lens-polishing line by redesigning machine program and mechanical adjustment, which resulted in

about 30% increase in polishing line efficiency and 10% decrease in overall lens manufacturing time and cost.

• Proposed and designed lens assembly fixture improves lens-etching process using SolidWorks for modeling.

Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY January 2012 – May 2012

Senior Laboratory Student, Optical Characterization & Testing with Equipment

• Built and adjusted Pulsed Dye Laser, Fiber Laser with optical testing and characterization (PSF, Peak Energy, etc.).

• Constructed Acousto-Optic Modulator by understanding material complex refractive index, polarization in isotropic

material (uniaxial crystal), and optical angular spectrum.

• Performed data analysis and modeling to precisely interpret results and summarized findings from testing data.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY September 2012 – May 2012

Research Fellow, Algorithm implementation for fMRI Statistical Processing

• Designed, tested and implemented statistical processing algorithm for functional MRI using C language approached

by linear model to separate multivariate spatiotemporal signals and model brain activities.

Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY May 2011 -December 2011

Research Fellow, Algorithm design for Super-resolution Ultrasound Images

• Lead early-stage design of optimized inverse filter to achieve super resolution ultrasound images by reconstructing

Z-transform mathematical theory to digital filter design and programming algorithm for automated tissue

simulations and experimental inverse filter processing.

Johnson School of Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY September 2012 - December 2012

Chief of Marketing, HemOnix Entrepreneurship Team Project

• Performed due-diligence and SWOT analysis for major competitors in Circulating Tumor Cells (CTC) diagnostics

device market as part of an entrepreneurship class project that results in a full business plan including Industry

Perspective, Market & Communication strategy for a novel micro-fluid chip device. Business plan ranked top 3.

SKILLS

Mechanical: Thermal Testing • Stress Analysis • Biocompatible/ Biodegradable Material • Data analysis • Material Simulation

Optical: Lens Design • Colorimetry• Fiber Optics • MTF test • Aberrations Test • Laser System • Optical Material (Crystal etc.)

Electrical Engineering: Statistical Processing • Computer Vision • Medical Imaging • Digital Filter Design • Semiconductors

Medical Device Regulations: FDA Quality System • Design Control Process • Medical Device Design Verification/Validation

Software: ZEMAX • CODE V • SolidWorks • C++ • C • Java • Linux • Matlab • Mathematica • Python • Excel • PPT

ADDITIONAL

Activities: Coaching and mentoring pre-engineer high school children at Cornell Graduate Outreach Program;

Languages: Proficient in Mandarin and Shanghainese

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