I was Vice President of the IEEE City College of New York Student Branch. The position has provided me with a platform to help students develop professional skills through various workshops such as PCB design workshops, Soldering workshops, Raspberry Pi and Arduino workshops. In the Fall 2019 semester at the City College of New York, I hosted a weekly C++ Workshop on Wednesday nights to help students (specifically electrical engineers) continue to learn more about programming.

In the Fall 2019 semester at the City College of New York, I was also fortunate enough to have the opportunity to work with Professor Saeed from the Electrical Engineering department on her research project: Quantum Computing for Artificial Intelligence. During my time there, I was able to experiment with IBM Q-Experience and the Quantum Information Science Kit (QISKIT) to run and investigate a hybrid quantum-classical support vector machine algorithm. We used this algorithm to classify test data sets (breast cancer dataset, IRIS dataset, etc) that were readily available in SciKit-Learn. We then investigated the effects of quantum noise on the final classifications of those datasets. A paper was submitted in December 2019.

I believe in diversity and integration in education. It is one of the many strengths in public education. The City College of New York is situated in Harlem, New York. To promote STEM and more specifically aerospace and rocketry, I served as the Electrical and Computer Engineering Section Manager at the Harlem Launch Alliance, Inc. to bring students of all backgrounds to compete in national rocketry competitions. The Harlem Launch Alliance Inc (HLA) is a non-profit organization that seeks to bring diversity in STEM by creating a fun, competitive and professional environment for students to gain hands-on experience.

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