I am a PhD student working with Shyam Gollakota in the Mobile Intelligence lab.

My research focuses on building intelligent mobile and embedded systems for computational health and large-scale environmental sensing.

I am a co-founder of Wavely Diagnostics, a company that is leveraging my research in mobile health to make pediatric healthcare more accessible.

I was the PI for a successfully completed NIH SBIR grant and now am a co-investigator for an NIH R21/R33 grant proposal on bringing universal newborn hearing screening to Kenya.

I earned my Bachelors degree with high honors in computer science and digital arts from Dartmouth (2015).

Research impact

• My work on detecting ear infections using smartphones has been commercialized by Wavely Diagnostics where I am a co-founder. This technology is now FDA-listed and is available to select early access healthcare systems.


• My earable device for low-cost newborn hearing screening has been presented to Kenya’s Ministry of Health. It has led to a larger effort called TUNE to bring universal newborn hearing screening across Kenya.


• My work on contactless cardiac arrest detection using smart speakers has been licensed to Sound Life Sciences, which has recently been acquired by Google.


• I led CovidSafe/CommonCircle (now WA Notify), a COVID-19 contact tracing and symptom tracking app, which became part of official efforts by the WA Department of Health to manage the pandemic.

• Nature Biomedical Engineering paper on otoacoustic emission testing using earphones (Wired).
• TUNE project to help with universal newborn hearing screening in Kenya.
• SIGCOMM paper on first underwater messaging app for smartphones (public review)
• Selected to attend Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2022 in Germany
• Nature Communications paper on blood clot testing on smartphones. (Medium blog post)
• Read our white paper on privacy-preserving protocols (PACT) for contact tracing while upholding civil liberties. The paper describes the design of CovidSafe → WA notify
• Invited to speak at the Future of Individualized Medicine conference in 2020 at the Scripps Translational Research Institute
• Featured as GeekWire's Geek of the Week
• Published a perspective on pediatric healthcare and AI in The Lancet with Eric Topol
• npj Digital Medicine paper on detecting cardiac arrests using smart speakers is published and covered by MIT Tech Review, Stat News and Bloomberg
• Science Translational Medicine paper on detecting middle ear fluid using smartphone is published and covered by NYTimes, NPR and Scientific American
• Created and taught a brand new class: Modern Mobile Systems
• Redesigned the MobiCom 2019 site as web chair. The first major redesign since 2006