About
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Austin and a part of
Prof. Mia K. Markey's
Biomedical Informatics Lab (BMIL).
My research interests are at the intersections of multimedia (text, image, video) processing, online information-seeking behavior,
sense-making, and clinical decision-making. Driven by my interdisciplinary background, I am passionate about integrating machine
learning approaches in these spaces to help users make sense of the health-related information they collect online.
As part of BMIL, I collaborate with the multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional MBRRP
team at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
I gratefully acknowledge the support I have received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 Fellowship,
UT Tolbert Fellowship in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and UT Thrust 2000 - William H. Cunningham Endowed
Graduate Fellowship in Engineering.
Previously, I received my bachelor's in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
from UC Berkeley.
I have also had the opportunity to intern at the Lawrence
Berkeley National Lab, Schlumberger, and
the WashU Institute for Informatics, Data Science, and Biostatistics.