Healthcare Informatics:
 Regenstrief Institute: NLM Informatics Fellow (Aug 08-), Student Researcher (Aug 07-08)
 Indiana University: PhD Student in Healthcare Informatics (Aug 07-)

• Data-mining:
  • Utilizing healthcare data repositories to automatically develop guidelines and detect care patterns for clinical practice.
  • Paper: [Student Paper Award Finalist!] A Recommendation Algorithm for Automating Corollary Order Generation. November 2009, AMIA Fall Symposium. [In Process]
  • Poster: Learning from the Crowd: Integrating local standards of care into a CDSS system for medication orders. May 2008, AMIA Spring Congress.
• Healthcare user interfaces:
  • Utilizing data structures and technology to rethink the user experience for both clinicians and patients.
  • Poster: Using Structured Clinical Documents to Provide Enhanced Display of Patient Records. Nov. 2008, AMIA Fall Symposium. [Ref]
  • Poster: Back to the future: revisiting the command line in conceptualizing EHR interfaces. December 2007, NSF Biomedical Informatics Workshop.

 MIT CS and AI Laboratory (CSAIL): Clinical Decision Making Group (Fall 2006-Summer 2007)

• Intelligent listening project:
  • Use of voice recognition and machine-learning algorithms to automatically generate medical records from doctor-patient encounters.
  • Paper: An Intelligent Listening Framework for Capturing Encounter Notes from a Doctor-Patient Dialog. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Volume 9, Supplement 1, 2009. [Ref]
  • Paper: An Intelligent Listening Framework for Capturing Encounter Notes from a Doctor-Patient Dialog. IEEE Bioinformatics and Biomedicine: Workshop on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Conference Proceedings, Nov. 2008. [Ref]
  • Course paper: Intelligent Listening: 6.872 Final Project. Fall 2006.

Laboratory informatics:
 MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL): Operations Dept. Research Assistant (2002)

• Research and design of a module for multi-institution extensible laboratory management software, using Java, SQL, XML, CORBA: "run manager" module, which collects machine-usage data in a flexible, generic, configurable way.
• Thesis: Run Manager Module for CORAL Laboratory Management. MIT Master's Thesis, June 2003. [Ref]

Social informatics:
 MIT Media Laboratory: Epistemology and Learning Group (Fall 1999-Spring 2001)

• Utilizing portable electronic devices to produce and analyze social behavior in a playful environment. Design and implementation of kid-friendly language and GUI; collection, analysis, and visualization of social-interaction data.
• Paper: Folk Computing: Revisiting Oral Tradition as a Scaffold for Co-Present Communities. Computer-Human Interaction Conference Proceedings, 2001. [Ref]
• Thesis: Data Mastermind of the Information Ball. MIT Undergraduate Thesis, June 2001.
• Unpublished document: "iBall" technology overview.