Hi, I’m Ella.

I am a Biomedical Engineer and entrepreneur who is passionate about reforming the health economy.

  • Founder/ Co-President Business Behind Health at Duke

    Created Duke University’s first student organization to unite business and heath.

  • Duke BME Design Fellow

    Design and test medical instruments based on clinancal need.

  • Innovation & Entrepreneurship Ambassador

    Worked as student consultant in Silicon Valley and intern at startup Pacto.

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Portfolio

Digital collection of work, learnings and reflections during my experience as a Duke I&E student.

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Projects and Experience

Merck Quality Engineering Internship

Reflection on my experience working as a quality engineering summer intern at Merck (Durham, 2025).

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Building Hydroponic Garden (EGR 101)

Poster presentation explaining the hydroponic garden I helped build and process, including design criteria, prototyping and testing.

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Business Behind Health at Duke

Co-founder and co-president of Duke’s first student organization focused on educating, uniting and providing pathways for all students interested in health.

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Medical Device Prototyping - Lightbox

Technical report explaining how I built a fully functioning lightbox, utilizing CAD, Arduino programming (C++), schematic layout, PCB layout, SPICE modeling and testing.

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Investigating Sleep Physiology Through EEG: A Multitaper Spectral Approach

Researched novel sleep analysis tools and approach in Python to analyze sleep patterns using EEG signal.

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Modeling Depressive Disorder and Serotonin Syndrome

Co-authored report researching drug-drug interaction of anti-depressant and cough syrup with analytical graphs through Python.

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