New York, New York, United States
I am a fifth-year PhD candidate at Columbia University conducting research at the Ultrasound and Elasticity Imaging Laboratory (UEIL) led by Dr. Elisa Konofagou. I am interested in the field of medical diagnostics, specifically the development of low-cost and noninvasive diagnostic devices. My research at UEIL involves using ultrasound, digital signal processing, machine learning, and deep learning techniques to investigate vascular diseases.
Research Project: Development of ultrasound-based imaging techniques to characterize arterial wall mechanics and blood flow dynamics for the characterization and monitoring of cardiovascular diseases. Experience: Physiological signal motion estimation, signal and image processing, deep learning, ultrasound software programming, wearable ultrasound applications, statistical analysis, clinical study coordination Research Advisor: Dr. Elisa Konofagou, Ph.D
BMEN E3920: Senior Design I and II As a Graduate TA in Senior Design, I provided constructed feedback and engineering assistance to support the design and development processes for student groups.
Research Project: Development of intra-operative device to estimate spinal alignment metrics during scoliosis surgery (spinal fusion). [Georgia-Tech BME Capstone] Research Advisor: Dr. Kingsley Abode-Iyamah, M.D. Research Deliverables: First author for featured publication (cover, Nov 2022) in Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine titled, "Semiautomated intraoperative measurement of Cobb angle and coronal C7 plumb line using deep learning and computer vision for scoliosis correction: a feasibility study"
Research Project: Development of a low-cost, point-of-care photoplethysmography device for early assessment of preeclampsia risk in Ethiopia (NSF-supported clinical study) Research Advisor: Dr. Rudolph Gleason, Ph.D. Research Deliverables: First-author of poster presented at the 2020 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Conference
As a TA for 3110, I provided feedback to student teams on their projects in terms of experimental design, technical writing, circuitry design, and statistical methods.
I provided guidance and assistance to a team of biomedical engineering students on their semester-long device project. I also helped with the grading of assignments.
Participated in the 4-week virtual Summer Foundations in Research program. Originally selected to work on novel ultrasound-based diagnostics under Dr. Mostafa Fatemi (cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic). Research Projects: - Experimental protocol development for deep learning based diagnosis of bicuspid aortic valve (Dr. David Holmes III) -Construction of in-silico design of recombinant DNA molecule pT3TS-EGFP for expression of EGFP in Zebrafish embryos (Dr. Ankit Sabharwal) Research Deliverables: Poster presentation, completion of Statistical Analysis and Fundamentals of Clinical and Translational Research courses
Research Project: Development of cell perifusion system, provide assistance with the differentiation of stem cells into β cells for a diabetes-focused project Research Advisor: Dr. Andrés J. García, PhD