San Diego, California, United States
I lead the Digital Health Technologies Laboratory at UC San Diego's Design Lab and ECE department. My research focuses on developing new sensing techniques necessary for enabling precise and personalized medicine. In particular, I am passionate about bridging the gap between the medical community and technology researchers to develop meaningful technology that truly impacts the face of medical diagnosis and treatment. I envision that the acquisition of health data will move away from the paradigm of periodically taking a measurement and see the value presented on a chart. Instead our health information will be monitored during our usual activities and the information presented to us seredipitously with in the context of our life.
I am the Jacobs Faculty Chair in Entrepreneurship Associate Professor at UC San Diego, where I lead the Digital Health Technology Lab. My team focuses on developing the next generation of digital health tools for improving at home monitoring, data analytics, and clinical processes through ML/AI, mobile computing, embedded systems, and human centered design.
I lead the Digital Health (DigiHealth) Laboratory at UC San Diego's Design Lab and ECE department. My research looks at the intersection between mobile computing and remote health care.
I founded Billion Labs based on technologies developed in my laboratory at UC San Diego with the vision towards democratizing health monitoring solutions by leveraging smartphones.
Visiting Associate Professor in Bioengineering (on Sabbatical from UC San Diego WI/SP 2026)
My PhD is focused on using concepts of ubiquitous computing to enhance the medical knowledge from one that is limited to of population level, statistical generalizations of medicine for the "average person," to a personalized and precise medicine for "the person." To achieve that goal, we need to be able to measure their physiological state and factors that affect a person's health, such as their environment and their daily activity. To do this, I am creating new technology that is noninvasive and more accessible because it is cheaper or reuses already available sensors in technologies like the smartphone.
Internship with Microsoft Research's Medical Devices team. I explored a new wearable sensing mechanism that utilizes bioimpedance spectroscopy to monitor cardiac failure.