// experience.jsx — Mina's experience timeline w/ Work/Volunteer/Research filter.
const EXPERIENCES = [
{
type: "Volunteer",
title: "Rexall Volunteer Assistant",
company: "Rexall",
duration: "Aug 2021",
bullets: [
["Accurately filled and labeled 50+ prescriptions per shift", " — ensuring compliance with pharmacy protocols and patient safety standards."],
["Replenished and organized 200+ medications and products weekly", " — maintaining stock levels and improving workflow efficiency."],
["Assisted 20+ patients per shift", " with inquiries and over-the-counter purchases."],
],
},
{
type: "Volunteer",
title: "Food Bank Volunteer",
company: "St. Mary's Food Bank",
duration: "Mar – May 2022",
bullets: [
["Arranged and stocked shelves for 50+ families per shift", " — improving accessibility and reducing wait times during distribution."],
["Communicated empathetically with 5+ families per shift", " — assessing needs and customizing food orders to fit dietary restrictions."],
],
},
{
type: "Work",
title: "Kitchen Worker",
company: "McDonald's",
duration: "Jul 2022",
bullets: [
["Organized events", " to support community initiatives and raise awareness."],
["Managed volunteer teams", " ensuring smooth execution of activities."],
["Secured funding", " by collaborating with local businesses and sponsors."],
],
},
{
type: "Volunteer",
title: "Summer Camp Volunteer",
company: "Ontario Science Centre",
duration: "Jul 2023",
bullets: [
["Supervised and cared for 30+ children daily", " — ensuring a safe and engaging environment."],
["Planned and executed 10+ activities per week", " — adhering to a strict schedule and minimizing risks."],
["Collaborated with 10+ volunteers and staff", " to manage camp operations smoothly."],
],
},
{
type: "Volunteer",
title: "Youth Volunteer",
company: "Community Living Mississauga",
duration: "Aug 2023",
bullets: [
["Built positive relationships with teens with disabilities", " — fostering inclusion and emotional well-being through daily social interaction."],
["Led recreational and skill-building activities weekly", " — promoting confidence in a safe, supportive environment."],
],
},
{
type: "Work",
title: "Software Engineering Intern",
company: "Royal Bank of Canada",
duration: "Jul – Aug 2024",
bullets: [
["Migrated 14 million real client files", " to a new system using Python, Selenium, and recursive functions."],
["Saved ~$1,500,000 in labour and $10,000/mo in compliance", " by keeping client history accessible to the insurance department."],
["Automated processes with Python and Java", " to improve system efficiency."],
],
},
{
type: "Work",
title: "Software Engineering Intern",
company: "Royal Bank of Canada",
duration: "Jul – Aug 2025",
bullets: [
["Built CHIP (Client History Insight Portal)", " — surfaces a client's previous async chats, banking and mobile platform interactions so agents can anticipate need."],
["Estimated savings: 2 min/call, $1,000,000+ total.", ""],
["Optimized internal software", " for Branch Services Technologies at RBC."],
],
},
{
type: "Research",
title: "Camber & thickness positions vs. lift across angle of attack",
company: "Independent Research",
duration: "Sep 2023 – Aug 2024",
bullets: [
["Measured camber/thickness positions of airfoils", " and quantified their impact on lift."],
["3D-printed airfoils for wind tunnel testing.", ""],
["Built a custom wind tunnel and measurement rig", " to conduct the experiments."],
],
},
{
type: "Research",
title: "Airfoil maximum thickness vs. lift/drag at various angles of attack",
company: "Independent Research",
duration: "Sep 2024 – Mar 2025",
page: "airfoil.html",
paper: {
doc: "PHYS-EE-01",
pages: "27 pp",
title: "Airfoil thickness vs lift/drag at varying angles of attack",
r2: "0.9538",
eq: "L = ½ CL ρ v² A",
kind: "airfoil",
},
bullets: [
["Designed controlled experiments", " using 3D-printed NACA airfoils (6–21% thickness) measuring lift and drag from -5° to 60°."],
["Collected quantitative data", " via precision balance and computed lift-to-drag ratios."],
["Applied fluid dynamics principles", " (Bernoulli, Newton's 3rd Law, boundary-layer theory) to interpret stall behaviour."],
],
},
{
type: "Research",
title: "Chain length & hydroxyl position vs. logP and SASA in alcohols",
company: "Independent Research",
duration: "Dec 2024 – Feb 2025",
page: "chem.html",
paper: {
doc: "CHEM-IA-02",
pages: "24 pp",
title: "Effect of chain length & hydroxyl position on logP",
r2: "> 0.99",
eq: "log P = 0.5421n − 1.309",
kind: "chem",
},
bullets: [
["Investigated molecular factors influencing solubility and absorption.", ""],
["Computational modeling of 36 alcohols (C1–C11)", " using PubChem, ALOGPS, ChemSpider, Chemicalize, PyMol."],
["Established quantitative relationships", " — R² > 0.99 for chain length vs. logP."],
],
},
{
type: "Research",
title: "Outer pipe radius vs. time for a magnet to fall through",
company: "Independent Research",
duration: "Dec 2024 – Feb 2025",
page: "physics.html",
paper: {
doc: "PHYS-IA-03",
pages: "13 pp",
title: "Time for a magnet to fall through a conductive pipe",
r2: "0.9861",
eq: "t = (ks/mg)(1/a3 − 1/b3)",
kind: "physics",
},
bullets: [
["Derived a model from Faraday's & Lenz's Laws", " predicting fall time ∝ 1/r³."],
["Conducted controlled experiments", " using aluminum pipes of varying outer radii and 60fps video analysis."],
["R² = 0.9861", " — derived inner radius (9 ± 1 mm) matched measured value (8 ± 0.05 mm)."],
],
},
{
type: "Research",
title: "Diffusion across red blood cells of different sizes & elongations",
company: "Independent Research",
duration: "Mar – Apr 2025",
page: "diffusion.html",
paper: {
doc: "MATH-IA-04",
pages: "27 pp",
title: "Modelling diffusion across red blood cells",
r2: "0.9957",
eq: "CRBC(t) = Csurr − (Csurr − C0) e−DAt/Vd",
kind: "diffusion",
},
bullets: [
["Derived a diffusion model using Fick's law", " incorporating membrane thickness and oxygen concentrations."],
["Modelled RBC geometry", " via quartic fits to holographic data; applied dilations to simulate pathological deformations."],
["Computed volumes, surface areas, diffusion rates", " using shell method, double integrals, and numerical integration (Python)."],
],
},
];
const EXP_TYPES = ["All", "Work", "Volunteer", "Research"];
// Sparkline variants drawn into the .pr-paper-graph slot. Picked by
// `paper.kind` so each research tile has its own visual identity.
function DiffusionSparkline() {
return (
);
}
// Tilted airfoil cross-section with airflow streamlines + lift/drag arrows.
// A small NACA-like silhouette drawn directly (not the same as the page's
// runtime path generator — just an evocative shape).
function AirfoilSparkline() {
return (
);
}
// Zigzag carbon-chain alcohol drawing for the chem walkthrough tile.
// Wider sparkline than usual; the OH group sits above the second carbon to
// pick a distinctive non-end position.
function ChemSparkline() {
// 6-carbon zigzag, OH at position 2
// viewBox 0 0 220 80
return (
);
}
// Side-view of a vertical pipe with a magnet inside and eddy current loops
// flanking it. Aluminium walls shaded, magnet split N (accent) / S (dark),
// gravity arrow on the right.
function PhysicsSparkline() {
return (
);
}
// Research-paper preview tile — rendered inside the experience row when an
// entry has a `page:` (i.e. a built walkthrough). The whole tile is an
// linking to the walkthrough. Visual: a small "document" card with the
// closed-form equation header, a sparkline of diffusion curves, and a footer
// stat. The tile is themed via .pr-paper styles shared with the rest of the
// site — the only new wrapper is .exp-paper-link for hover/anchor behaviour.
function ResearchPaperTile({ e }) {
const p = e.paper || {};
// The .pr-paper card IS the anchor (no wrapping div) so the entire tile
// surface routes clicks directly to the walkthrough.
return (