Research

Publications, papers, and research contributions in AI, healthcare, and representation learning.

Biomedical Imaging
Research (Publication)

CheX-Nomaly: Lung Abnormality Segmentation

Contrastive Siamese localization model disentangling disease labels from bounding boxes to improve generalization.

Methods: Contrastive learning, Siamese nets
Domain: Chest X-ray
Impact: arXiv paper, strong generalization
Biomedical Imaging
Research (Publication)

Automated Coronary Calcium Scoring

Semi-supervised U-Net segmentation of non-gated CT scans for cardiovascular risk stratification.

Methods: U-Net, semi-supervised learning
Domain: CT Imaging
Impact: IEEE URTC publication
Biomedical Imaging
Research (Theory)

False Negative vs False Positive Tradeoffs

Cost-sensitive analysis of error tradeoffs in binary medical ML tasks.

Methods: Loss weighting, evaluation theory
Domain: Medical ML
Impact: arXiv paper
Biomedical Imaging
Research (Publication)

Brain Tumor Segmentation via Mask R-CNN

Image-subtraction-based Mask R-CNN for heterogeneous tumor segmentation.

Methods: Mask R-CNN, subtraction
Domain: Neuroimaging
Impact: arXiv paper
Biomedical Imaging
Research (Publication)

PneumoXttention: Pneumonia Detection

Researcher
2021 – 2023

Attention-augmented CNN to compensate for diagnostic variability in CXR interpretation.

Methods: CNNs, attention
Domain: Chest X-ray
Impact: Model assistance increased radiologist accuracy from 72% to 100% in a 25-image reader study; IEEE ISPA paper
Biomedical Imaging
Research Internship

Yale Oncology Lab – Eovist MRI GANs

Teacher–student GANs for liver MRI synthesis and segmentation enhancement (6k+ slices).

Methods: GANs, U-Net
Domain: MRI
Impact: +23% DICE
Patient Embeddings
Research Experience

Multimodal Patient Representations (Kellis Lab)

Undergraduate Researcher · MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Aug 2024 – Jan 2025 · Cambridge, MA

Developed multimodal latent representations across 6,000+ patient records, comparing feature representations and 2D versus 3D embedding strategies to improve cohort separation and interpretability.

Methods: Multimodal representation learning, clustering, 2D/3D embeddings
Domain: Patient representation learning
Impact: 6,000+ patient records with reproducible latent spaces and under-one-second integration per new record
Sequential & Signal ML
Research / Product

Water Consumption Disaggregation

Appliance-level inference from smart-meter time series using shape-based clustering.

Methods: K-Means, DTW
Domain: Utilities
Impact: 5–10% water reduction
Sequential & Signal ML
Research Collaboration

MIT CSAIL × Itaú Unibanco Fraud Detection

Undergraduate Researcher · MIT CSAIL × Itaú Unibanco
Jan 2025 – Dec 2025 · Cambridge, MA

Compared LightGBM, LSTM, and Transformer models across 1M+ highly imbalanced credit-card transactions, varying feature representations to maximize fraud recall under a strict false-positive constraint.

Methods: LightGBM, LSTM, Transformers, feature engineering
Domain: Fraud detection / financial ML
Impact: 1M+ transactions; optimized fraud recall under a <0.1% false-positive constraint
AI Products & Knowledge
Research

O-Health Symptom Extractor

Unsupervised clustering of 50k+ patient records to infer medical specializations.

Methods: Clustering, NLP
Domain: Healthcare
Impact: >60% accuracy