About me

I am an assistant professor at DePaul University, adjunct assistant professor at Northwestern University and the CTO of SenseWhy INC. I also teach Wireless and Mobile health (mHealth), Health Informatics, Electronic Health Records, and Applied Computing courses. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Washington State University (WSU) in 2021 at EMIL Lab. I currently work on health monitoring projects related to behavioral medicine.

Research Interests

  • Embedded Systems
  • Health Informatics
  • Mobile Health (mHealth)
  • Smart Sensing Solutions
  • On-Device Processing
  • Power Optimization and Energy Harvesting

Current Projects and Research Opportunities

  • DePaul-RFUMS Grant - SmokeSense: Advancing Wrist-Worn Devices with AI for Real-Time Smoking Insights
    • I am hiring three students from DePaul’s current students (one undergraduate and two graduates)
      • Position 1: Experience interacting with sensors and developing firmware (C/C++)
      • Position 2: Experience applying machine learning models on image data (computer vision)
      • Position 3: Experience designing 3D enclosures for the wearable device
  • DePaul URC Grant - Batteryless UV Sensing Device for Melanoma survivors
    • I am hiring one student from DePaul’s current students with a background in electronics.
  • NIH R01 - EAT: A Reliable Eating Assessment Technology for Free-living Individuals
  • NIH R21 - BehaviorSight: Privacy Enhancing Wearable System to Detect Health Risk Behaviors in Real-time
  • NIH R03 - WildCam: A Privacy Conscious Wearable Eating Detection Camera People will Actually Wear in the Wild

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