About
I have a Ph.D. in computer science from the UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences. My graduate work focused on exposing privacy vulnerabilities using machine learning in mobile device usage. In 2018, I was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. In 2016, I was listed as a co-inventor on three patent applications as a research intern at Qualcomm.In 2011, I graduated with a B.Sc. with Honors in Computer Science at the University of Alberta, where my studies were focused in both neuroscience and computer science. I worked at the SCOPE Neuroscience Lab under the supervision of Prof. Florin Dolcos, and published several papers as an undergraduate research assistant on the neural correlates of human social interaction behavior using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques.
My main focus is to use large-scale data analysis to better understand online communication and social dynamics.