Research

Statement of purpose:

I am passionate about the intersection of innovation/engineering with humanity and public health. This takes foot in my engagements in translational computational medicine, computational science for biology education, health/neuro-humanities, grassroots public health research, and entrepreneurship. My primary interests lie in the use of AI/ML and Data Science n tasks such as (but not limited to) segmentation, classification, vision processing, small-molecule generation, natural language processing, and generative AI.

I seek to create innovations to improve patient, physician, and family outcomes and increase equitable access to quality healthcare.

Engagements:

• Lee Lab – UNC School of Medicine Department of Radiology
  • Deep-learning powered iNPH diagnostic tool – developing a automated deep-learning powered T1 Brain MRI Segmentation and measurement derivation tool for speedy diagnostic workflows.
  • Minder3D – developing an open-source radiological image analysis platform
  • Perfusion Analysis – creating machine learning powered brain perfusion analysis pipelines.
• Gomez Lab – Lampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering @ UNC
  • IDG Consortium Project – working with the IDG consortium to analyze novel Dark Kinase interaction data to inform pharmacological drug development/discovery, and pathophysiology understanding.
• DBER Lab – UNC Department of Biology
  • Developed a novel computational biology module for an introductory biology lab course to introduce students to computational science/data science techniques in biology.
• Public Health Research Institute of India
  • Developing an automatic Kannada transcription and translation software to speed up focus group discussion (FGD) and individual interview (IDI) analysis for grassroots public health research.
  • Using data science techniques to analyze novel public health survey data.
  • Helping to conduct cervical cancer awareness and screening camps.
• Prev:
  • Heartland Whole Health Institute
    • Served as a scholar at the Heartland Whole Health Institute with a team of four other Morehead-Cain Scholars for our Civic Collaboration Summer! We were tasked with improving implementation of value-based care in rural Arkansas to increase access and quality, while reducing cost.
  • PES University
    • Worked to develop natural language processing powered small-molecule generation pipelines.