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Ashley received BS, MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School following her PhD. Ashley’s research background includes optical tomography and inverse imaging problems (e.g., medical applications) and communication problems (e.g., orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and ultra-wide band (UWB)).

While in graduate school, Ashley served as a research intern at a major research lab, where she worked on various projects, such as construction of M-QAM signals utilizing Q-PSK Golay sequences for OFDM systems. Ashley’s research on time hopping sequence for narrowband interference suppression has been the subject of two US patents, namely US Patent No. 8,406,278 and US Patent No. 8,687,672.

After completing her PhD, Ashley was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Bioinformatics of the department of Radiology of Brigham and Women’s Hospital-Harvard Medical School. During her postdoctoral fellowship, Ashley worked on developing computational algorithms that aid diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, repair and prevention of neurodegenerative diseases and related disorders.

Ashley’s research has been published in several peer-reviewed publications, including IEEE Trans. on Communication, Radio Science, IEEE Trans. on Geoscience & Remote Sensing, NeuroImage, BMC Cell Biology and Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics.

Ashley concentrated on Intellectual Property Law in law school. She won first place in the Boston Patent Law Association’s 2016 Annual Writing Competition for her article titled “Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) and the Protection of Digital Embodiments of Artworks.”

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•  Advised a South Korean private equity firm in its $100 million investment in a manufacturer of robotic surgical products*
• Advised a prominent impact fund in its acquisition of a manufacturer of next-generation solutions for continuous, noninvasive monitoring of in vitro cell models*
•  Advised a biotechnology company in its acquisition of a biotechnology company that focuses on smart devices and imaging*
• Advised private equity investors in the investment of a Swedish manufacturer of sustainable wood packaging materials*

*Matter handled prior to joining the firm.

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