Hi there, my name is Jessie

A bioengineering master student at Imperial College London

My goal is to engineer tools to improve human health. I am currently pursuing the training and education needed to reach my goal. My interest is in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

I consider myself a fast-learner and immensely enjoy the process of learning (about anything, really), by coming up with little projects to challenge myself, including the site you're seeing right now. I plan to build a page to better showcase them, for now, you can find bits and pieces in my blog.

Being a naturally curious homo sapiens, I have quite a lot of hobbies, for example: sleeping (jk).

Feel free to reach out if you think there's a position that'd be a good fit for me, have any questions, or just to chat!

You're probably not reading this yet.

Personal Projects

I'm thinking of a way to better design this page, but for now, here's a summary.

  • 3D Animation of Chemical Plant Design
    • My capstone course project was on designing a chemical plant. While 3D visualization was part of the project, I went beyond expectation to create a detailed model of the whole plant and an animated plant walkthrough (I spoke over it in the final presentation).
    The reason that I callenged myself to go above expectation despite the heavy workload this semester is that I believe this is an opportunity to teach myself skills that can be adapted to scientific communication.
    Tools: AutoCAD Architecture, Plant 3D, Autodesk Inventor, Factory Deisgn Suite, Autodesk 3ds Max
  • Arduino-Based Spectrometer
    • I built a spectrometer because I was really interested in how it works and wanted to challenge myself with more electronics, coding, and (not intended as well but surely unsurprising) optics. Description: Using a high CRI lightsource, the light is diffracted, passed through a sample and the intensity change of a certain wavelength is recorded by a light sensor. Cost of entire system kept under $50.
    • V1: Servo controls the angle of diffraction therefore wavelength. Sensor is a LDR(light dependant resistor) + amplifiers. Cardboard casing.
    • Some calculations done in MATLAB, 3D CADing done in Solidworks, software written in Processing.
    • V2: Everything 3D-printed(using my own DIY printer), CADing done in Fusion360, light source is a halogen bulb with fan cooling, sensor is a linear CCD, software not yet written.
    Tools: Arduino, Processing, Soliworks, Fusion360, MATLAB
  • Auto Plant Watering System
    • My mom like plants. They wither when we travel (which we do a lot). I built something so that they don't die. Works well. Now our balcony is like a garden. Description: Reads the humidity of the plant, controls a pump/valve to water the plant if the humidity is low.
    • V1: Arduino reads a value from humidity sensor and compares to set value. Controls a relay hooked to a pump and a water bucket. Can be controlled via bluetooth in Android app developed with MIT App Inventor.
    • V2: Now using NodeMCU, everything online through Lewei IOT platform, can be controlled via Wechat. Instead of a pump, now the relay is connected to a valve on the water tap, saves lot of refilling energy.
    Tools: Arduino, MIT App Inventor, Lua, NodeMCU, IOT Platform
  • DIY 3D Printer
    • I use 3d printing in my projects so much that at one point it became expensive to use the one in the library, so I built one. I LOVE the open source community so much. Description: Based on the open source design of Prusa i3, scavenged the parts from Chinese shopping sites, built a 3D printer costing under $150 CAD.
    • I'm not able to measure the EXACT accuracy, but I assume somewhere ~0.1mm.(Based on observation of various other printers I've came into contact with)
  • This Site
    • As you see before your eyes... It's sweet self-taught (like every other skill I have) HTML+CSS+JavaScript.
    p.s. There's a V1 as well... look at the bottom of the nav bar.
    p.p.s. Nobody ever clicks on "Contact" but I actually spent a good chunk of time animating it...
  • Autonomous Sumo Robot
    • My introduction to the UofT Robotics Association
    • Sheet metal chasis, arduino core with two motors, two line sensors and one IR sensor. Coded to autonomously push the other robot out of the arena.

    If you're still reading, here's me playing a ukulele song I learnt a while back that I really like :)


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