About Me
Kwadwo
Osafo
Hello!
My name is Kwadwo Osafo, and I am an undergraduate senior in Boston University (BU), currently enrolled in the Computer Engineering major. I joined STEM Pathways in May 2024 and spent the subsequent summer on the BU campus as a research assistant in the Khalil Lab.
Prior to joining the Khalil Lab, I had acquired various engineering skills throughout my academic journey, most notable of which are my coding skills (C/C++, Python, Matlab) and practical electronic skills such as soldering and breadboarding, which I had applied to various academic and personal projects over the years. These skills, coupled with a budding passion for biotechnological research, were instrumental in making my summer research a very instructive and rewarding experience.
Personal Research Statement
My Research Interests
My summer research experience in the Khalil Lab was my very first hands-on experience with biotechnology research, and it was an eye-opening and inspiring experience.
In my junior year in college, I begun developing a budding interest in the intersecting fields of biotechnology and engineering which stemmed from an interest in prosthetics. As a child, I was always fascinated by how prosthetics interacted with the human body, a fascination which has stayed with me to this day. This fascination eventually led me to develop a passion for robotics and automation, which I have been able to explore in my pursuit of a Computer Engineering degree at Boston University. Learning about biotechnology allowed me to expand my ideas of what is possible with automation by teaching me how biological processes and actors can be made to deliberately serve as parts of a larger system to achieve a particular result, igniting my shimmering interest into a burning passion.
With the skills I have acquired as a computer engineer and as a research assistant at Khalil Lab, I seek to combine knowledge from these different fields to achieve better industrialization of results from biotechnology research through the use of high-throughput optimization and automation. Also, since my interest in prosthetics has not waned over the years, I aim to use the knowledge I acquire to make prosthetics more efficient and more widely available across the world, especially to the lower income population.