Phone: (562) 412-8285 Email: asifdhanani@berkeley.edu

EDUCATIONBachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science with Minor in Computer ScienceDouble Concentration in Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ASIF DHANANI

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Children Helping Other Children

7 Cups of Tea

June-December 2014- Rapidly developed software for several genetic analysis applications concurrently and maintained oconsistency among them in two week sprints through the Scrum methodology - Improved the performance of several application pages and converted fixed width layouts to responsive - Managed the expectations of designers and managers in creating a new user interface for our applications

Recipient of Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarship

- Provide emotional support, compassion, and empathy to users through an online chat medium - Refined my skills by working with a mentor and completing training modules on anxiety and depression

- Raised $8500 to build a school in the Maasai Mara region of Kenya in collaboration with Free the Children - Oversaw a charity concert featuring local talent and YouTube stars such as AJ Rafael - Instituted a schoolwide child labor awareness week with events such as speaker panels and film screenings

Active Listener

Founder/President

- Directed a team to design a smart essential oil diffuser to help promote quality of sleep and self-awareness - Presented our prototype, business plan, financial projections, and user interview results to win 2nd place

- Writing an eBook which summarizes and organizes research backed solutions to increase happiness - Researched positive psychology literature and devised an actionable and effective program

IPN Startup Pitch Competition

- Invented a method that over doubled the ability of people to learn foreign language vocabulary - Tested its efficiency in a 32 subject between-subjects experiment and are the only independent finalists

Memrise Prize Competition

Positive Psychology E-Book

- Assembled and led a team to wireframe an EEG based mobile application to acheive mental clarity and calm - Motivated an academically diverse team to collaborate effectively and win 2014 Emotiv Designathon

Brainability

Class of 2014

Relevant Coursework

UC Berkeley

The Science of Happiness, Psychology and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Human Learning and Memory, Human Neuropsychology, Psychology of Sleep, User Experience Design

PROJECTS

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Python HTML CSS JavaScript jQueryJava FireworksMatlab Android PhotoshopSPSS

Software Engineer

- Designed and executed an experiment examining fear generalization in individuals with high anxiety levels - Compiled a stimulus set, recruited/ran partcipants, and did a statistical analysis of pupillary response data - Recorded the background, methods, and results of this experiment in a thesis receiving high honors - Facilitated lab communication with supervisors in London on projects with dynamic schedules

Head Research ApprenticeAffective Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Fall 2011- Spring 2014

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