Odette L. Ma

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e-mail:  odette dot ma at polymtl dot ca

EDUCATION:

Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada (September 2003 ~ Present)

           PhD Candidate in Biomedical Engineering (February  2004 ~ Present) 

               MSc Candidate in Biomedical Engineering (September 2003 ~ January 2004)

            First person (having completed bachelor degrees outside of Poly) in the history the school to undergo the passage from baccalaureate to doctorate.

University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA (September 1998 ~ June 2002)

Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering with specialization in Biochemical Engineering (June 2002)

Senior Project: Collaborated in design of complete ammonia plant with half of the class by designing the steam balance for the plant.

Bachelors of Science in Chemistry (graduated with honors June 2002)

Thesis: Atmospheric Gases Caught by Organic Films: A Molecular Dynamics Simulations Study

EXPERIENCES:

 6-03 to 8-03

TradeNet Enterprise, Inc., Walnut, California

                Logistics Manager

• In charge of all shipping and delivery of arriving containers from abroad to customers.

• Accounts payable / accounts receivable and customer relations.

• Dealt with companies in Taiwan and China.

• Took care of running the company while the boss was abroad.

6-02 to 6-03

Beckman Laser Institute, Irvine, California

Intern

• Submitted a paper for publication.

• Supervised and taught an undergraduate to run the experiments and to perform the analysis.

• Characterized nozzle diameter and distance from substrate for maximal cooling of cryogenic sprays used during laser surgery.

• Built new temperature sensors

4-02 to 6-02

Beckman Laser Institute, Irvine, California

Undergraduate Researcher

• Characterized nozzle diameter and distance from substrate for maximal cooling of cryogenic sprays used during laser surgery.

• Analyzed temperature profile data using Origin and Excel.

• Repaired old temperature sensor skin phantom.

• Built a trigger box to control the spurt duration of cryogen sprayed.

6-99 to 6-02

University of California, Irvine, California

Undergraduate Researcher

• Studied peptide and lipid bilayer (DOPC) interactions using Molecular Dynamics.

• Studied the interaction between a lung monolayer (OPPC) and tropospheric oxidants

• Created programs in the C language for analyzing the data generated by the simulation.

2-98 to 9-98

Paradigm Microsystems, Inc., Brea, California

Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivable

• Prepared checks for payments due and made sure to collect payments due to the company.

• Dealt with collection agencies.

• Deposited daily company income, performed secretarial tasks, such as typing, filing, and answering the phones as well as data entry.

• Promoted with additional responsibility of accounts payable after 3 months of employment

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

C/C++, HTML, Microsoft Office, Linux, Provision, Origin, DataView.

HPLC, FTIR, UV-Vis, GC-MS, inverted microscope, microcentrifuge, fluorimeter plate reader.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Fluent English (written, spoken)

Fluent Mandarin  (spoken)

Conversational French (written, spoken)

Conversational German (written, spoken)

Wrote and presented the opening speech for the play Die Physiker performed in German with a collaboration of two advance German classes (June 2000).

The only science major that took a literature course in German

PRESENTATIONS:

Posters:

223^rd ACS National Meeting.  Title:  Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Tryptophan Containing Peptide at a Membrane/Water Interface

224^th ACS National Meeting.  Title: Atmospheric Gases caught by Organic Films:  A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study

Oral:

8^th Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium:  Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Trapping of Atmospheric Gases by Organic Films

9^th Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium: Atmospheric Gases caught by Organic Films:  A Molecular Dynamics Study

 Honors Chemistry Seminar 2002:  Atmospheric Gases caught by Organic Films:  A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study

PUBLICATIONS:

Aguilar G, Wang GX, Nelson JS.

Dynamic behavior of cryogen spray cooling: effects of spurt duration and spray distance.

Lasers Surg Med. 2003;32(2):152-9.  (mentioned in acknowledgments)

Ma O, Aguilar G, Wang GX, Nelson JS.

                Correlations between spray properties and boiling dynamics during cryogen spray cooling.

(submitted)

FELLOWSHIP/AWARDS/HONORS:

Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Fellowship 2001.

Hypercube Scholar Award (2002).

Tau Beta Pi (national engineering honors society, member since 2002)

Omega Chi Epsilon (chemical engineering honors society, member since 2000, secretary 2001-2002).

Phi Lambda Upsilon (chemistry honors society, member since 2003).

INTERESTS