Resume

Updated as of June 21, 2025

Education



University of California, Irvine

2024 - Present
Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering
Gpa: 3.9/4.0

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Swarthmore College

2019 - 2023
Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Minor in Philosophy
Gpa: 3.8/4.0

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Tufts University

Spring 2022
Domestic Exchange Program

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Publications



Y. Hu, R. Mendoza, M. Nguyen, A. Olsen, J. Weng Zhu, and V. Ganapati, "Self-Supervised Approach to Joint Imaging Inverse Problems." Optica Publishing Group, 2023.

R. Mendoza, M. Nguyen, J. Weng Zhu, V. Dumont, T. Perciano, J. Mueller, and V. Ganapati. "A Self-Supervised Approach to Reconstruction in Sparse X-Ray Computed Tomography". NeurIPS, 2022.

Experience



Technical Developer

05/2023 – 09/2024
Public Invention

1. Global Open Source Quality Assurance System Project
2. Intubation Simulation Project
3. VentOS API Project

Research Affiliate

06/2022 – 08/2022
Center of Computational Sciences and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory


Summer Student Researcher

05/2021 – 08/2021
Department of Engineering, Swarthmore College


Digital Platform Design Intern

05/2020 - 08/2020
Fundacion Saltamontes Network


Venture Capital Extern

May 2020-July 2020
RallyCry Ventures


Research Intern

05/2019 – 08/2019
Laboratory For Intelligent Imaging and Neural Computing, Columbia University, New York, NY


Leadership



Co-President

09/2021 – 05/2023
Society of Womxn Engineers at Swarthmore College


Treasurer

01/2020 – 05/2023
Underrepresented Students in STEM (US in STEM) at Swarthmore College