Awards and Education

Awards and Education

Recognition for trustworthy AI, medical imaging research, and technical mentorship.

2026

UC Berkeley Data Science Changemaker Award

Recognized for M.S. thesis research on clinical reliability and trustworthy AI infrastructure, including discriminative fact-checking models for radiology report verification and the RadCheck dataset.

Award page
2026

Best Master's Thesis Award Nomination

M.S. thesis nominated by RPI for Best Thesis Award consideration by the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools.

2025

Best Video Editing Award

Selected from 300+ submissions to the RPI UPAC Student Film Festival for the short film EXIST.

2020

UC Berkeley Undergraduate HCE Essay Prize, Runner-up

Recognized for original research on social, cultural, policy, and ethical issues at the intersection of data science, technology, and society.

Education

Academic path

University of British Columbia

Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, 2026 - Present

Advisor: Prof. Purang Abulmouselmi. Research interests include multimodal AI, computer vision, medical imaging, and text analytics.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

M.S., Biomedical Engineering, 2023 - 2026

Thesis: trustworthy AI for radiology report verification using image-driven, discriminative fact-checking models.

University of California, Berkeley

B.A., Data Science, Domain Emphasis in Cognition, 2018 - 2022

Professional Service

Co-organizer, MICCAI Tutorial on Foundational Models for Healthcare, 2025 and 2026.

Co-organizer, MICCAI Workshop on Multimodal Learning for Clinical Decision Support, 2025.

Peer reviewer for IEEE EMBC, ICLR, MICCAI, MICCAI ML-CDS, and related workshops.