Jalen Cai

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127 items across the site are still waiting for a photo, a document, a link, or a paragraph. This page is generated from the content files, so it is always current.

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Research

Can Gut Bacteria Change the Brain? 5

  • Add wet-lab images
  • Confirm which mentors/labs can be named publicly
  • Teaching an AI to Search for Probiotics: Add a pipeline diagram or screenshot
  • We've Come Full Circle: From Computer Predictions to the Wet Lab: Add approved validation figure(s) once the analysis is final
  • Accepted to BLSME 2027: Add the proceedings DOI and link once the paper is published

CAI-Vax: Designing Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccines 6

  • Add workflow diagram
  • Add interface/analysis screenshots
  • Add public documentation once it exists
  • Add team roster/credits if the team is happy to be listed
  • Confirm which mentor/lab can be named publicly
  • Experimental validation: Add validation plan and results when they can be shared

Publishing Sympify's Diagnostic-Equity Research 9

  • Add the proceedings link so the paper is actually reachable
  • Copy sympify_interactive_web_app_flowchart.png into /public/media/sympify/ and set src
  • Add proceedings URL
  • Add DOI if applicable
  • Add paper PDF if appropriate
  • Sympify poster at USC Moving Targets: Copy sympify_usc_moving_targets_full_poster.png into /public/media/sympify/
  • Sympify poster at USC Moving Targets: Add poster-session photographs (not yet mapped to a Drive folder)
  • 7th International Conference on Big Data and Machine Learning: Add proceedings URL
  • 7th International Conference on Big Data and Machine Learning: Add DOI if applicable

Astrobees, Algorithms, and a Summer at MIT 2

  • Add simulator screenshots
  • Add project documentation

My First Summer in the Lab: Social Isolation, DHM, and the Brain 5

  • Add the LA Moving Targets 2023 poster
  • Add the poster PDF
  • LA Moving Targets poster presentation: Add poster session photographs
  • Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics — 21st Annual World Congress: Recover the SBMT poster number and board number
  • Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics — 21st Annual World Congress: Recover the exact session date and session time

From Wet Lab to Machine Learning: Predicting Sepsis Mortality 2

  • Copy sepsis_model_comparison_figures.png into /public/media/sepsis/ and set src
  • Add exact presentation and publication links

My First Peer-Reviewed Paper: Autism, Paternal Age, and Maternal Stress 6

  • Confirm the exact citation format and add a link
  • Add a cover image or figure for the publication (journal cover, figure, or first page)
  • Add DOI/publication URL
  • Add paper PDF if permitted by the journal
  • Add DOI or publication URL
  • Published: Add DOI/publication URL

Modeling Post-LASIK Pain — and Winning Best Poster 3

  • Add poster
  • Add model figures
  • 2025 USC Moving Targets Symposium: Add photographs from the symposium

Studying Alcohol, the Liver, and the Brain 7

  • Verify exact conference-presentation details before claiming attendance or presentation at a particular Research Society on Alcohol meeting
  • Add a figure or lab image from the alcohol/liver project
  • Add poster if one exists
  • Add project figures
  • Add the abstract URL or DOI
  • Add a one-line description of Jalen's specific contribution
  • Verify exact conference-presentation details before claiming attendance

Community & Impact

Sympify 19

  • Add health awareness event photographs
  • Add chapter/team photographs
  • Add international chapter photographs
  • Confirm which partner organisations can be named publicly
  • Building the First Sympify Prototype: Add early screenshots or mockups
  • Taking Sympify to the Congressional App Challenge: Add the official announcement link
  • Health Awareness Events: From an App to Actual Conversations: Add individual event names
  • Health Awareness Events: From an App to Actual Conversations: Add photographs
  • Growing Sympify Beyond One School: Add a chapter map or list once chapter names are approved for public use
  • Working with Hospitals and Clinics: Add approved organisation/partner names and links (not listed on the sympify.org landing page)
  • Raising Over $55,000 for the Mission: Add the major fundraising channels
  • Raising Over $55,000 for the Mission: Note whether any portion was restricted for specific programmes
  • Raising Over $55,000 for the Mission: Add a public-safe breakdown of how the funds were used
  • 8,520+ Hours, but What Were We Actually Doing?: Add an approximate breakdown by category if one exists
  • 8,520+ Hours, but What Were We Actually Doing?: Confirm whether all technical/research hours qualify as volunteer service under the same accounting method
  • Sympify Goes International: Add approved chapter and city names
  • Sympify Goes International: Add event names
  • Sympify Goes International: Add international chapter photographs and captions
  • Sympify Goes International: Add current international impact figures to display

When Sympify Took Us to Harvard 6

  • Do NOT publish Drive IMG_5916.PNG from this folder — it is a screenshot of a group-assignment spreadsheet containing participant email addresses
  • Add the invitation/event link
  • Pick a team/group shot from Drive Sympify_HYPS (IMG_5896–IMG_5933) — none of the sampled files was a group photo
  • Add the presentation slides — not in the Drive folder yet
  • Add invitation/event link
  • Add the presentation

Earning the Congressional Award Gold Medal 1

  • Gold Medal approved: Add the ceremony date and location once announced

Music

Post-Credits 18

  • Add The Cyclist album artwork
  • Add a live performance video
  • The Performance That Started It: South Point Middle School: Add the rest of the set list
  • The Performance That Started It: South Point Middle School: Compress a short excerpt from Drive "First Performance SPMS" (IMG_1408/IMG_1409; IMG_0045.MOV is ~6.4 GB — do not commit it) and add it here
  • Our Own Mini-Concert: Add the event name, if it had one
  • Our Own Mini-Concert: Add the set list and who was there
  • Our Own Mini-Concert: Transcode the 20221111_MiniConcert MOV (~23 MB) to MP4/WebM and add it — do not embed the Drive preview
  • Playing the Night Markets: Add the individual market/event names, dates and locations
  • Playing the Night Markets: Confirm which performances counted toward community-service hours
  • Playing the Night Markets: Add the organising groups where relevant
  • Playing the Night Markets: Add a night market performance video
  • Playing the Moon Festival for Local Seniors: Add the organising group
  • Playing the Moon Festival for Local Seniors: Add the venue/community
  • Playing the Moon Festival for Local Seniors: Confirm whether service hours were recorded
  • Making Our First Album: The Cyclist: Add The Cyclist album artwork
  • Behind the Drums: Producing Post-Credits: Copy post_credits_2023_senior_event_drums.jpg (Drive dsc06059.JPG) into /public/media/post-credits/ and set src
  • Behind the Drums: Producing Post-Credits: Add recording or rehearsal footage
  • Behind the Drums: Producing Post-Credits: Add production/studio photographs

Finding My Place in Wind Ensemble 1

  • Add a wind ensemble performance photo

Percussion in the Pit: Playing DBHS Musicals 1

  • Confirm whether any further shows should be listed

Trying Jazz 1

  • Add a jazz performance photo

Making California All-State 4

  • Verify exact All-State year
  • Add a performance video or recording
  • Add the All-State programme
  • Selected for California All-State: Verify exact All-State year

My First SCSBOA All-Southern Symphony Orchestra 4

  • Add a performance video or recording
  • Write the account of the first All-Southern
  • Add a 2024 All-Southern photo or programme
  • Add the 2024 All-Southern programme

Back to All-Southern 4

  • Add a performance video or recording
  • Write the account of the second All-Southern
  • Add a 2025 All-Southern photo or programme
  • Add the 2025 All-Southern programme

Athletics

Chasing the 200 Fly 1

  • Add meet or programme materials if desired

Qualifying for the 2024 SoCal Junior Olympics 4

  • Add the qualifying meet and time
  • Add meet or programme materials if desired
  • Add a photo from the 2024 SoCal Junior Olympics
  • 2024 SoCal Junior Olympics — qualified in the 200 butterfly: Add the qualifying time and meet name

Side Quests

Achievement: How Did We Get Here? 1

  • Senior Division Global Champion: Add the announcement or results link

Yes, I Really Like Omori 1

  • Add any specific art or music moments worth naming

Why Ski when you can Snowboard? 2

  • Add specific trips or years worth mentioning
  • Add a memorable story

A Complicated Relationship with Golf 1

  • Add golf photos and text

Things Worth Eating Twice 1

  • Add more favourite restaurants and food discoveries when there is something to say

Site-wide

Homepage — Athletics row 1

  • 200 fly: Choose a butterfly photo — mid-race or on the blocks

Homepage 2

  • Add a lead image for the Research entry tile
  • Add a Sympify event photo for the Community entry tile

Music page — venues and performance reel 6

  • Boston Symphony Hall: add the year and which ensemble/programme
  • Skywalker Ranch: add the year and what the session was
  • California Center for the Arts: add the year and which performance
  • Add a Post-Credits live performance video (reel)
  • Add an ensemble or honor-orchestra performance recording (reel)
  • Add a drum-focused clip — rehearsal, studio, or solo (reel)

Footer & site metadata 3

  • Confirm jpc_930@usc.edu is the preferred public contact address before launch
  • Add a favicon and an Open Graph share image to /public
  • Choose the production domain, then set it in astro.config.mjs and src/data/site.ts