About Me

I'm a fourth-year PhD student in the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. My primary research interests are in optimization and machine learning for applications in healthcare and medicine. I also have a BS in Computer Science and Applied Math from Johns Hopkins.

Ongoing Research

Hospital Resource and Demand Redistribution for COVID-19

Developing models to make optimal patent and resource transfers between hospitals to reduce the burden of COVID-19 on healthcare systems.

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Completed Projects

Evaluating Epidemic Forecasting

Created a new metric for evaluating epidemic forecasts in context.

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Phantom Alignment Strength in Weakly Correlated Graphs

Investigating seeded graph matching for weakly-correlated graphs.

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Detecting Sickle-Cell Retinopathy

Using deep learning to detect sickle-cell retinopathy from ultra-widefield fundus photography.

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Automated Classification and Segmentation of Laryngeal Lesions

Instance segmentation for detecting two types of laryngeal lesions in endoscopic video.

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Cataract Surgery Phase Identification

Contributed to a machine learning system for recognizing the current phase in cataract surgery from video as a step towards automated skill assessment.

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AlphaTSP

Learning a heuristic for solving the traveling salesman problem using Monte Carlo tree search and deep reinforcement learning, inspired by AlphaZero.

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