Duke University


Text Mining Electronic Health Records for Pharmacovigilance, Biosurveillance and Clinical Decision Support
Jan 2010 - Present
Advisor: Joseph Lucas
  • Applied state-of-the-art models for plain text data to a new application in EHR
  • Developing new models for unstructured high-dimensional data

Relating Structural Changes in the Human Epigenome to Differential Gene Expression
June 2009 - August 2009
Advisor: Prof. Joseph Lucas
  • Used bayesian sparse factor models to integrate very high dimensional data on chromatin measurements with gene expression data

The University of New Hampshire


Median polish algorithms for automated anomaly detection in environmental sensor networks
November 2008 - May 2009
Advisor: Prof. Ernst Linder
  • Developed enhancements to the algorithm
  • Coded a GUI tool in Python to set tuning parameters and monitor performance of the algorithm

Spatial Analysis and Modeling of Town-level Lyme Disease in New Hampshire
September 2008 - December 2008
Advisor: Prof. Ernst Linder
  • NASA EPSCoR grant to determine factors increasing the risk of Lyme disease in the state
  • Used reversible jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo to select covariates from remote sensing and GIS for a Bayesian hierarchical model