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I've been personally immersed in the health care system since the day I was born. I would constantly imagine ways that the health care system could be improved, from better equipment to cures for diseases to improved physician-patient interactions. My motivation to improve health care—and more fundamentally improve peoples' quality of life—has been at the core of everything I've done. I chose to pursue health care research, and that decision has led me on an odyssey of sorts.
"He's doing something over there" - dealer's choice of my friends
In order to accomplish my goals of improving health and quality of life, I blend computer science and engineering with health care. I've worked in several domains including mobile app design, digital fabrication, computational and biological modeling, natural language processing, web development, data visualization, designing and implementing public health interventions, and education. I'm currently entering my fourth year of my PhD in personal health informatics and Northeastern University, where I am part of the Accessible and Creative Technologies Lab.
"Somewhat computer literate" - many people
I work on a variety of health care and accessibility topics. Some of my more recently completed projects have included the development and evaluation of a smartwatch app for longitudinal analysis of post-stroke word recall, creation of a measure and dashboard related to community-level impact of COVID-19 for a local government, and identifying drug side effects from health care forums using NLP. I also have a passion for educating people at all stages of life, and I've taught adaptive skiing, worked on mathematical visualizations, and taught a research course at Brown University for several years.
"This website could have been a linkedin page" - you, possibly
Right now most of my work focuses on digital fabrication, specifically computational machine knitting. This research largely falls into two categories, and is centered around the use of a full-garment, automatic knitting machine that is most commonly used for the manufacturing of knitted clothes such as sweaters or shirts. The first cateogry is the development of software and interfaces for improving the process of going from design and idetion to knitting-machine-usable code to actually "print" the garment. The second category is using these design tools to fabricate knit sensors using special yarns capable of sensing touch, pressure, and changes electrical signals generated by the body; these sensors are intended mostly for physiological sensing and activity recognition. I am also involved in Northeastern's CubeSat (mini satellite) initiative, where I serve as the electrical lead for all three satellites currently under development.
As you can imagine, I have many research interests and ongoing projects! Below is a list of questions I am working on or at least hope to work on one day in no particular order: