Work

Research & engineering work

Preprint

Social Determinants of Health & Fentanyl Overdose Mortality

Question: Which county-level social determinants predict fentanyl overdose mortality, and where should prevention resources go first?

Approach: XGBoost model with SHAP interpretation over 975 U.S. counties, combining CDC WONDER, Social Vulnerability Index, health behavior, and healthcare workforce data

Technologies: Python, XGBoost, SHAP

My contribution: Co-author, modeling & analysis

Status: Preprint · arXiv:2605.08230

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Preprint

Wearable-Grade Lead Reduction & ECG AI Performance in Elderly Patients

Question: Does reducing clinical 12-lead ECGs to a single wearable-grade lead degrade AI diagnostic accuracy differently across age groups?

Approach: 1D residual neural network trained and validated on 21,091 PTB-XL and MIT-BIH recordings, benchmarked across lead configurations and age groups

Technologies: Python, deep learning, PTB-XL, MIT-BIH

My contribution: Co-author, modeling & analysis

Status: Preprint · medRxiv

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Publication

Understanding Hate Group Videos on YouTube

Question: How do U.S. hate groups present themselves and frame social problems in YouTube videos?

Approach: Grounded-theory analysis of 96 videos via open-coding, affinity diagramming, and collective-action framing analysis

Technologies: Python, research data tooling

My contribution: Data collection and Python-based research tooling

Status: Published · ACM CSCW'22 Companion

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Research tooling

NiuLab YouTube Screenshot Crawler

Purpose: Crawl YouTube videos and capture screenshots at set intervals to support video-content research

Approach: Uses the YouTube API to fetch videos by criteria, then automatically captures frames for downstream analysis

Technologies: Python, YouTube API

My contribution: Author & maintainer

Status: Published to PyPI

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Project

Video Classification with OpenCV & ImageAI

Purpose: Classify and identify video type as part of research support work at Clark University

Approach: Image-processing pipeline built on OpenCV and ImageAI

Technologies: Python, OpenCV, ImageAI

My contribution: Sole developer

Status: Completed, research support tool

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Project

Face & Hand Recognition on Raspberry Pi

Purpose: Support students in a Mobile Software Development course with a working recognition API

Approach: MediaPipe-based API deployed on Raspberry Pi hardware

Technologies: MediaPipe, Python, Raspberry Pi

My contribution: Sole developer, as course TA

Status: Completed

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Professional

GIS Infrastructure & Risk Management Systems

Purpose: Infrastructure management, COVID-19 early detection, and building-vulnerability assessment

Approach: Web/GIS systems built for a national telecom regulator and public-health partners, mapping and tracking risk over geographic data

Technologies: Laravel, OpenLayers, GeoServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Chart.js

My contribution: Full-stack development at Innovative Solution Pvt. Ltd. & freelance (RSLUP)

Status: Deployed / production use

Project

Integrated Library Management System (ILMS)

Purpose: Let administrators update book records via barcode scan and users browse the catalog on the go

Approach: Android application with barcode scanning, backed by the Google Books API

Technologies: Java, XML, Google Books API

My contribution: Sole developer; undergraduate capstone project

Status: Published on Google Play