University of Toronto

May 2020 - Apr 2022

• Supervisors: Eyal de Lara and Frank Rudzicz
• Led COVIDFree@Home, a CIHR funded project that provided remote patient monitoring to 5 Toronto hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic

Vector Institute

Mar 2020 - Apr 2022

• Supervisor: Frank Rudzicz

Vector Institute

Sep 2017 - Mar 2020

• Supervisor: Frank Rudzicz

University of Toronto

Sep 2014 - Mar 2020

• Supervisors: Eyal de Lara and Frank Rudzicz
• Research focus: Using machine learning and continuous sensing on mobile/wearable devices to monitor patients with chronic diseases
• Thesis: Towards Continuous Mobile Sensing for Remote COPD Monitoring

Simon Fraser University

Sep 2011 - Jun 2014

• In Computer Science with a Major in Software Systems
• GPA: 4.0/4.33

CEO and Co-Founder

May 2019 - Present

• A startup out of UofT/UHN with an AI-focused remote patient monitoring platform that enables better care for chronic conditions
• Pre-seed funded and heavily involved in the Toronto start up ecosystem

Teaching Assistant

Sep 2022 - Dec 2022

• AI for Healthcare Leaders

Teaching Assistant

Sep 2014 - Dec 2019

• C4M - Computing for Medicine (Fall 2018, Winter 2019)
• HLP101 - Help desk (Fall 2018)
• CSC 2228 - Advanced Topics in Mobile and Pervasive Computing: Cloud Computing (Fall 2017)
• CSC 207 - Software Design (Winter 2015, Summer 2015, Fall 2015)
• CSC 148 - Introduction to Computer Science (Fall 2014)

Research Intern

May - Aug 2017

• Worked with the Digital Health Team on smartwatch based sensing

Research Assistant

May - Aug 2014

• Used the R environment to analyze data, running cluster analysis and various other statistical methods
• Presented a research poster at LASI-14 at Harvard University

Teaching Assistant

Jan - May 2014

• Designed and developed testing framework for student assignments
• Courses: CMPT 213 - Object oriented design in Java (Spring 2014)

• Fast, multi-threaded tool for extracting lexicosyntactic (including lexical norms and grammatical complexity), semantic (including information content), pragmatic (including topic modeling and rhetorical structure theory), and acoustic features

• A simple decorator to cache the results of function calls

• A fast, parallel and extensible pipelining framework for Python

• Python application to automatically generate a Resume/CV and website from a JSON file

Developer

Sep - Dec 2016

• Built Android application and backend to automatically detect changes in users mood based on sensor data
• Used sensors on Smartwatch to detect changes in physical behavior and speech patterns
• ECE1778: Creative Applications of Mobile Devices @ University of Toronto

Developer

Nov - Dec 2015

• Implemented a Raytracer in C++ featuring anti-aliasing, soft shadows, glossy reflections, texture mapping and environment mapping
• Created a physical simulation on top of the Raytracer
• Won the Wooden Monkey Award
• CSC2504: Computer Graphics @ University of Toronto

Group member

Nov - Dec 2015

• Designed and conducted an experiment to observe differences in smartphone usage when participants did or did not have a smartwatch
• Analyzed smartphone usage data and compared usage behaviours
• CSC2514: Human-Computer Interaction @ University of Toronto

Author

Nov - Dec 2015

• Reviewed literature to highlight factors affecting the adoption of wearable technology
• CSC2514: Human-Computer Interaction @ University of Toronto

Developer

Jan - May 2015

• Implemented and compared machine learning based cough detectors using SVMs, Logistic Regression and Neural Networks
• CSC2515: Machine Learning @ University of Toronto

Designer

Sep - Dec 2014

• Extended the Kandoo controller by allowing arbitrary sharding of local controllers
• Developed two implementations of our design using Mininet and virtual machines in a network testbed
• Tested and benchmarked our implementations and compared it to existing solutions
• CSC2229: Software Defined Networking @ University of Toronto

Developer

Mar - Apr 2014

• Performed mutation testing, static code analysis, dynamic analysis and performance testing on the JUnit open source project and reported issues and possible solutions
• Gained understanding of test plans, testing processes and tools used in software quality assurance
• CMPT473: Software Quality Assurance @ Simon Fraser University

Developer

April 2014

• Developed a scalable data storage system in Python. The system consisted of a load balancer, data servers, NoSQL database instances (Redis) and a queuing service
• System used either a strong or weak consistency model based on user request. Implemented a gossip algorithm using vector clocks to keep all database instances up to date
• CMPT474: Cloud Computing @ Simon Fraser University

Developer

January 2014

• Created and deployed a scalable image sharing and resizing application using Amazon Web Services
• Analyzed various design decisions that could affect scalability, reliability and performance
• CMPT474: Cloud Computing @ Simon Fraser University

Developer

January 2014

• Allowed users to search bus stops, bus routes and next bus departure time
• Used GPS to find nearby bus stops
• Developed for Windows Phone during a Microsoft 24 hour hackaton

Developer, Repository and Standards Manager

Sep - Dec 2013

• Created Java based asset manager to catalog, display and search image, audio, video and text files
• Designed and implemented object model for project
• Contributed heavily to UI design and implementation
• CMPT373: Software Development Methods @ Simon Fraser University

Developer

Sep - Dec 2013

• Created a compiler for Decaf language using Lex, Yacc and LLVM
• Implemented a tokenizer, parser and intermediate code generator
• CMPT379: Compilers @ Simon Fraser University

Developer

Sep - Dec 2013

• MarkUs is an online assignment submission and grading tool used by the University of Toronto, University of Waterloo and École Centrale de Nantes, France
• Worked on replacing SVN with Git as a backend for assignment submissions
• Attended code sprint at Mozilla's Toronto office

Designer and Developer

December 2013

• Implemented an ACID compliant web server that allowed clients to read files and to initiate transactions, upload files and commit transactions
• Designed system to recover or abort transactions in case of failure
• Designed system to keep uncommitted files hidden from other users until committed
• CMPT431: Distributed Systems @ Simon Fraser University

Sole Developer

May - Aug 2013

• Designed and developed an Android application that allows using a phone as a mouse
• Used accelerometer and gyroscope sensors to control mouse cursor on remote PC
• Created a server application to run on the PC being controlled
• Designed wireless protocol for communication between application and server
• IAT381: Mobile Computing @ Simon Fraser University

Team Lead and Developer

Jan - Apr 2013

• Designed and developed an Android application to help students in the Software Systems program at SFU keep track of their degree progress and plan future courses
• Designed user interface, database architecture, and object model
• CMPT276: Software Engineering @ Simon Fraser University