Curriculum vitae

William Scott Raymond

Education


Colorado State University
Bachelor of Science - Chemical and Biological Engineering
Bachelor of Science - Biomedical Engineering
GPA 3.35
Fall 2012 - Spr 2017

Colorado State University
Doctorate of Philosophy - Bioengineering
Fall 2018 - Fall 2023

Work Experience


Research Assistant - Colorado State University
  • Developed Python packages aimed at providing our research to the public
Sept 2017 - Aug 2018

Undergraduate Research Assistant - Colorado State University
  • Completed an honors thesis focusing on a Python GUI for solving bursting gene models
Summer 2017

Teaching experience


Course Instructor - Colorado State University
BIOM 421 - Transport phenomena
  • Taught senior undergraduate engineering students principles in transport phenomena including topics such as pharmacokinetics, fluid dynamics, mass transport, and FEM / FVM analyses.
  • Created an engaging and vibrant learning environment by providing real world examples of where taught principles are applied.
Jan 2023 - May 2023

Learning Assistant - UQ-Bio summer school
  • Taught and assisted various levels of student from undergraduate to first year PhD students at the undergraduate quantitiative biology summer school across a myriad of topics: ODE modeling, Machine learning, Python coding, MCMC, stochastic simulation, and finite state projection.
  • Generated lecture materials used for teaching students on topics for learning Python, TASEP modelling, and introduction to machine learning. Provided these materials as open source Colab notebooks.
  • Designed each year's T-shirts!
Summer 2021, 2022, & 2023

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Colorado State University
BIOM 421 - Transport phenomena
  • Assited in grading and running office hours.
  • Directly supported students' learning by helping with question and answer sessions.
Fall 2020, Fall 2021

Accepted Talks


UQ-Bio 2023 Guest Lecturer - Fort Collins, Colorado
  • Gave a 15 minute talk on my dissertation project combining mechanistic mRNA models to extend the color pallette of NCT experiments.
  • Presented a poster on my publication "Using mechanistic models and machine learning to design single-color multiplexed nascent chain tracking experiments"
June 2023

APS March Meeting - Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Talk title: "Combining mechanistic and statistical models to enable Nascent Chain Tracking for multiple mRNAs using a single color"
March 2023

Q-bio Conference - Rutgers University
  • Talk title: "Stochastic Simulation Identification Toolkit"
Summer 2017

Conference Attendences


qCMB Symposium - Fort Collins, Colorado
Attendee and poster presenter
  • Gave a 2.5 minute lightning talk advertising my poster.
  • Presented a poster on my publication "Using mechanistic models and machine learning to design single-color multiplexed nascent chain tracking experiments"
June 2023

Outreach


Engineering Mentor - Colorado State University
  • Helped incoming freshmen engineers adjust to their new college environment and classes.
  • Mentored freshmen with their courswork and provided office hours.
  • Volunteered for Engineering E-days and assisted prospective freshmen interested in engineering
Fall & Spring 2014