CV

Research Interests

Digital Health, Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Ubiquitous Computing, Human Centered Design

Education

• Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2025 (expected)
• B.S. in Bioengineering: Biosystems, University of California, San Diego, 2020
• International Baccalaureate Diploma and Seal of Biliteracy in Spanish, Princess Anne HS, VA, 2016

Research Experience

• Remote, Smartphone-Based Screening For Mild Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults to Assess Alzheimer’s Disease Risk (July 2020 - Present)
  • UDCompLab, UCSD Design Lab, UCSD Center for Mental Health Technologies
  • Professor Eric Granholm, Professor Edward Wang
• Smartphone-Based Pupillometry for Research Applications (Mar. 2020 - Aug. 2021)
  • UDCompLab, UCSD Design Lab, UCSD Center for Mental Health Technologies
  • Professor Eric Granholm, Professor Edward Wang
• Personalized Hypertension Care Using Wearables and Machine Learning (Feb. 2020 - Dec. 2020)
  • Mobile Systems Design Lab: Jared Leitner, Professor Sujit Dey
• Functional Testing of Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes in a Vascularized Cardiac Patch (May 2019-Jan. 2020)
  • Mali Lab: Aditya Kumar, Professor Prashant Mali

Work Experience

• Field Clinical Engineer, Valencia Technologies, San Diego, CA (August 2018 - August 2020)
  • Responsible for device configuration, communication with medical clinics, and patient interactions during a clinical trial.
• Surf Instructor, UCSD Recreation, La Jolla, CA (March 2017 - December 2019)

Publications

• (Submitted 09-2021) Enabling Smartphone Pupillometry using a Facial Identification Camera in At-Home Environments
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• Tenets Towards Smartphone-based Medical Tricorders
  • MobiSys 2021: DigiBiom, Workshop on the Future of Digital Biomarkers

Awards

• Powell - Focht Fellowship 2020
• Provost Honors, UCSD 2016-2019

Skills

• Machine Learning and Signal Processing: Pytorch, Tensorflow, Scipy, OpenCV
• Programming Languages: Python, MATLAB
• Mobile and Embedded Systems: Android Studio (Kotlin, Java), C
• Tools and Software: SolidWorks, LaTeX, Linux, Git

Service and leadership

• Director, Digital Health Research Summer Outreach Program (April 2022 - Present)
• UDComp Lab Spring Break Research Experience Opportunity (March 2020)
• Life Rolls On 2018, Adaptive Surf Clinic (Sept. 2018)
• UCSD Rock Climbing Team Beginner’s Coach (2018-2019)