Projects & Funding
The following details my past and ongoing projects.
The following details my past and ongoing projects.
Projects & Grants
Projects & Grants
Current Projects
Current Projects
Multimodal Information Extraction & Interpretation for Health Inferencing
People-Aware Computing Lab, Cornell TechAug 2024 - present
Funding: National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
Feeling Reality: Avatar-Based Virtual Mirrors and Self-Esteem in Virtual Reality Environments
Cornell TechAug 2024 - present
Role: Co-PI
Funding: Unfunded. Associated with class project.Protocol #: IRB0149127
Formative Research on Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences Study (FRAPCES)
RTI International & the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)March 2024 - 2026
Funding: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Injury Prevention & Control
Past Projects
Past Projects
Adaptive Information Extraction from Social Media for Actionable Inferences in Public Health
Department of Computer ScienceColumbia University in collaboration with the New York City Department of Health and Mental HygieneSept. 2022 - 2024
Funding: National Science Foundation Grant No. IIS-15-63785PI: Luis Gravano, PhD, Co-PI: Daniel Hsu, PhD
Paper presented at Annual Conference of the UConn Center for mHealth and Social Media, Advancing Public Health and Science with Artificial IntelligencePoster presented at DSD2024Paper accepted to 2024 International Conference on Social Media & SocietyPoster presented at 2023 CUPP SymposiumPoster presented at DSD2023
SciInfo: a Science-Onboarding Platform for Non-Biochemist Schrodinger Affiliates
2024 Hacking the Gender StackSchrodinger inc.2024
Role: Product co-developer, Tasks: product ideation, product design, front-end development, RDKit integration, testing
GitHub repo *
*(Awarded Trailblazers of Tailored Tools Award).
memorAIs: an OCR and Text Classification-Based Medication Intake Reminder-Generating Solution
DivHacks 2023: Hack to the Future Columbia DivHacks, Major League Hacking, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative & the Patient Safety Technology Challenge2023
Role: Project manager & co-developer, Tasks: product ideation, product design, front-end development, testing
See project on DevPost*See paper in arXiv
*(Awarded first-place Patient Safety Award & Best Use of Taipy API).
CU Access: a Classroom Accessibility Review Platform for Columbia University Students with Disabilities
COMS 4170: User Interface DesignDepartment of Computer ScienceColumbia UniversitySept 2023 - Dec 2023
Role: Product co-developer, Tasks: product ideation, product design, front-end development
GitHub repoWatch our video overview
PreePro: a Consumer-Facing Remote Patient Monitoring System for Preeclampsia Detection & Care-Seeking Decision Support
BINF 4001: Computer Applications for Healthcare & BiomedicineDepartment of Biomedical InformaticsColumbia University2023
Role: Project lead, Tasks: ideation, development
Run a command-line simulation of PreeProGitHub repo (simulation code)
Ripple Effects: Measuring the Ripple Effect Outcomes of Children’s Mental Health Services Implementation
SMART CenterUniversity of Washington in collaboration with Youth MOVE National2021 - 2023
Role: Consultant, Tasks: survey deployment support, thematic consensus coding support
Funding: Â National Institute of Mental Health 1R21MH119360-01A1PI: Michael Pullmann, PhD
Paper under review
Use the tool (under construction)
Web-Based Health Information-Seeking & Time Since Provider Engagement
Research Group on Equity in Health, Wealth and Civic EngagementTufts UniversityMay 2021 - Aug 2022
Sub-project within overall Equity in America survey project
Role: Project lead, Tasks: research design, survey analysis, technical writing, presentation
Language/Software Competencies: Stata, R
Funding: Tufts University Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) and the Research and Scholarship Strategic Plan (RSSP), Tufts CTSI grant UL1TR002544PIs & data set stewards: Jennifer Allen, ScD, Peter Levine, PhD, Thomas Stopka, PhD
Paper published in JMIR Formative Research
Developing a Free-Access Machine Learning Model & Data Set Disclosure (MDSD) Curriculum for Public Health & Healthcare Contexts
Master of Science in Health Informatics & Analytics Capstone ProjectTufts University School of MedicinePrecepting Organization: Google Cloud, Healthcare and Life SciencesApril 2022 - July 2022
Role: project lead Tasks: curriculum development, exercise development, technical writing, project management
Language/Software Competencies: Python (scikit-learn, PyFPDF), Google Colab
Funding: Not funded. Work associated with a class project.
See the MDSD4Health website, GitHub repository, and Twitter page.
Investigation of the Impact of Medication Storage Location on Medication Adherence
Tufts Digital Health Research GroupTufts University School of MedicineMarch 2022 - July 2022
Role: Graduate Research Assistant, lead survey analyst, Tasks: data wrangling and cleaning, qualitative and quantitative survey analysis, decision documentation, technical writing
Language/Software Competencies: Stata
Funding: Tier 3 Springboard Award, Tufts University Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR)PI: Lisa Gualtieri, PhD
Paper published in Frontiers in Digital Health
"Free Food Near Me:" Mapping U.S. Google Search Volumes, Food Insecurity Rates, and Location of Feeding America Network Food Banks
HIA 219: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial EpidemiologyTufts University School of MedicineFeb 2022 - May 2022
Role: Project lead, Tasks: research design, geocoding, bivariate choropleth mapping, technical writing
Language/Software Competencies: ArcGIS (ArcMap), R, SQL
Funding: Not funded. Research associated with a class project.Professor: Shikhar Shrestha, PhD
See the poster* presented at the Tufts GIS Expo.
*(Selected as one of "18 Best" to be taken by Tufts faculty to the 2022 Esri User Conference in San Diego, CA).
HEART-EDACS: Developing and Automating a Joint Cardiac Risk Stratification Tool in Python
HIA 225: Python for Health Informatics & AnalyticsTufts University School of MedicineJan 2022 - March 2022
Role: Project Lead, Tasks: project ideation, code development and revision, technical writing, presentation
Language/Software Competencies: Python, Google Colab, Replit, GitHub
Funding: Not funded. Work associated with a class project.Professor: Olaf Dammann, MD, PhD
See the GitHub repository and use the tool.
Medication Information Seeking During COVID-19 & Home Medication Management Survey
Tufts Digital Health Research GroupTufts University School of MedicineJan 2022 - March 2022
Role: Graduate Research Assistant, lead survey analyst, Tasks: data wrangling and cleaning, qualitative and quantitative survey analysis, decision documentation, technical writing
Language/Software Competencies: Stata, R
Funding: Tufts CTSIPI: Lisa Gualtieri, PhD
Designing a Browser Extension for Reliable Online Health Information Retrieval Among Older Adults Using Design Thinking
HIA 203: Digital HealthTufts University School of Medicine & AARPMay 2021 - Aug 2021
Role: Project Lead, Tasks: literature and solution review, ideation, platform research, low-fidelity prototyping, technical writing, presentation
Language/Software Competencies: Draw.io, TextCompare
Funding: Not funded. Work associated with a class project.Professor: Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, ScM
Paper published in Online Journal of Public Health Informatics (OJPHI)
COVID-19 Dashboard
LEEFE LabTufts UniversityMay 2021 - Aug 2021
Role: Technical Assistance, Tasks: Tableau data mapping, cross-checking figures and maps
Language/Software Competencies: Tableau
Funding: Tufts University and the Tufts Medical Center COVID-19 Rapid Response Seed Funding ProgramPI: Laura Corlin, PhD
Visit the dashboard
Develop, Enable, Manage, Improve (DEMI): Leveraging Information Governance Process Flows for Multi-Site Program Evaluation
HIA 221: Data Trust - Information Governance in HealthTufts University School of MedicineFeb 2021 - May 2021
Role: Project Lead, Tasks: project ideation, technical writing, publication
Funding: Not funded. Research associated with a class project.Professors: Chad Brouillard, JD, Kimberly Reich, MBA, MJ
See the blog post I wrote about this project.
Massachusetts Healthy Transitions Evaluation, second iteration
Commonwealth MedicineUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical SchoolFeb 2020 - Oct 2021
Role: Junior evaluator, Tasks: data analysis, instrument development, evaluation coordination, decision documentation
Language/Software Competencies: R, SAS, Tableau
Funding: Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH) , Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)PI: Alexis Henry, ScD
Tobacco Control Evaluation and Technical Assistance
Commonwealth MedicineUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical SchoolRole: Project coordinator, Tasks: focus group facilitation, decision documentation, technical writing
Language/Software Competencies: MS Excel
Feb 2020 - May 2021
Funding: Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH)PIs: Jack Gettens, PhD, Linda Long-Bellil, PhD, JD
Systems of Care Expansion for Transition Age Youth Evaluation
Commonwealth MedicineUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical SchoolFeb 2018 - Oct 2021
Role: Junior evaluator, Tasks: data analysis, instrument development, evaluation coordination, decision documentation
Language/Software Competencies: R, SAS, Tableau, MS Excel
Funding: Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)PI: Alexis Henry, ScD