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Education

University of Washington School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education • 2020-2022

University of Washington

PhD of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) • 2014-2020

University of Colorado Boulder

MS of Electrical Engineering • 2005-2007

Seattle University

BS of Electrical Engineering • 1999-2003

Experience

University of Washington, Seattle, WA • Postdoctoral Fellow

Postdoctoral Fellow • 2020-present

  • Integrating clinical information extraction models into the UW Enterprise Data Warehouse, extracting information from millions of notes, and expanding biomedical research at UW

  • Identifying the genetic make-up (genotyping) of patients who experience severe COVID-19, including the extraction of critical respiratory indicators from chest x-ray reports

  • Extracting incidentalomas (findings unrelated to original imaging inquiry) from medical imaging reports, to assess the associated health and financial risks

University of Washington, Seattle, WA • Doctoral Student

Clinical information extraction • 2017-2020

  • Extracted critical information from clinical notes, including social determinants of health and COVID-19 diagnoses, testing, and symptoms

  • Created novel corpora of clinical text with detailed annotations

  • Developed a novel active learning framework for selecting samples for annotation that increase corpus heterogeneity and maximize model learning

  • Developed state-of-the-art extraction models, focusing on the challenges associated with data-driven extraction in low resource settings

Clinical documentation processes • 2015-2018

  • Investigated clinical note creation using automatic speech recognition (ASR) to improve clinical workflow, documentation efficiency, and record quality

  • Proposed a novel approach for using ASR transcripts and physician-edited transcripts to automatically identify portions of ASR transcripts that require careful review

  • Teaching Assistant • 2014-2019

  • Taught laboratory courses, including courses for international student-exchange programs: Circuit Theory and Power Electronics Design

  • Recognized for teaching a highly rated course by the College of Engineering

ECE Recruiting and Admissions • Graduate Staff Assistant • 2018-2020

  • Recruited prospective graduate students, emphasizing underrepresented populations and recruiting at conferences, like the Society of Women Engineers, National Society of Black Engineers, and Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

  • Implemented a holistic graduate admissions process that included unconscious bias training for reviewers and an assessment rubric focused on the whole person

  • Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) • Research Assistant • 2015-2018

  • Contributed to the advancement of the international VIP Consortium (vip-consortium.org), which promotes undergraduate research and explores project-based learning

  • Developed the University of Washington VIP chapter, emphasizing diversity and inclusion in student and faculty recruitment

Seattle University, Seattle, WA

Adjunct Faculty • 2012-2019

  • Taught lecture and laboratory classes: Circuits Laboratory, Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, Electronics 1, Electronics 2, Electronics Laboratory, & Power Electronics

  • Advised students in year-long, industry-sponsored senior capstone projects: Engineering Design I, II, & III

  • Developed course materials, including laboratory experiments

  • Assisted in ABET accreditation activities

DNV KEMA, Seattle, WA

Senior Engineer • 2007-2012

  • Wind turbine power quality, power performance, and mechanical load testing

  • Wind plant due diligence, including technology and site conditions analysis

  • Root cause analyses of wind turbine mechanical and electrical system failures

National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO

Graduate Researcher • 2006-2007

  • Designed a GPS-synchronized data acquisition system for wind turbines

  • Tested a novel prototype wind turbine generator

Awards & Honors

Best Colloquia

UW Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education • 2021-2022

  • Quarter-long colloquia titled, “Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing Within the Clinical Domain”

  • Selection based on graduate student voting

Doctoral Dissertation Award Finalist

American Medical Informatics Association • 2021

  • Recognized for contributions to biomedical informatics (award link)

  • Dissertation among the top six submissions

Best Presentation Award

American Medical Informatics Association • 2018

  • Presented dissertation research at the NLP Working Group Doctoral Consortium

Husky 100 Recipient

University of Washington • 2017

  • Recognized for leadership, discovery mindset, and commitment to inclusion

  • One of 100 students selected from across all University of Washington campuses

Professional & Humanitarian Services

Rotary International • 2007

  • Recognized by Rotary International for work with Engineers Without Borders

Invited Talks

“Extracting Social Determinants of Health: Annotation, Extraction, Information Gain, and Ethical Considerations.” Yale College of Public Health, Biostatistics Seminar, Nov. 2023.

“Extracting Social Determinants of Health: Annotation, Extraction, Information Gain, and Ethical Considerations.” Boston Children’s Hospital Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) & Harvard Medical School, Nov. 2023.

“Leveraging natural language processing to augment structured social determinants of health data in the electronic health record,” JAMIA Journal Club, Jun. 2023. (link)

“Extracting radiological findings from medical imaging reports,” National Library of Medicine (NLM) T15 Training Conference, Jun. 2022.

“Annotating Social Determinants of Health Using Active Learning, and Characterizing Determinants Using Neural Event Extraction,” University of Washington Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology Seminar Series, November 2021. (slides)

“Identifying ARDS in chest radiograph reports,” National Library of Medicine (NLM) T15 Training Conference, Jun. 2021.

Service

Conference and Journal Reviewing

Editorial Roles

Challenge Organization

Engineers Without Borders

Project Manager • 2005-2007

  • Led the design and installation of a photovoltaic water pumping system, which brought potable water to a community of over 100 people in rural Peru