I am a postdoctoral research associate at Yale University, Department of Laboratory Medicine. I work with my mentor Dr Wade Schulz on researching computational healthcare solutions. My interests are on computational methods and ubiquitous technologies for health and mental/behavioral health in particular.

Formerly, I was a joint postdoctoral fellow at Northwell Health (Zucker Hillside, Queens) and Cornell Tech. I worked with Dr John Kane, Dr Deborah Estrin, Dr Tanzeem Choudhury, and Dr Sunny X. Tang on improving mental and behavioral health with technology. Parts of this research focused on language and speech processing to identify formal thought disorder in schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD), markers of functional resilience in SSD, and digital social media markers associated with SSD.

I graduated from Queen Mary University of London. My advisors were Dr Hamed Haddadi and Dr Akram Alomainy. My research focused on the use of smart wearables to improve health and wellbeing of individuals. am especially interested in using ubiquitous technologies like smartphones and wearables to detect stress and influencing factors in everyday life settings. In general, I am very interested in emerging technologies and human factors. In the past, I worked with social mediating technologies in the workplace, ambient presence, gesture and posture recognition, cognitively enhancing usage of virtual reality visualizations, and bio-physiological signals for emotion and stress recognition.

My Research interests are: smart sensors/environments, health and wellbeing promotion through technology, digital behavioral traces