My group creates intelligent mobile and embedded systems for computational health and wireless sensing.

My work has been recognized by SIGMOBILE Research Highlights twice, SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner Up, and a IEEE Pervasive Computing Emerging Rockstar feature.

I was the PI for a successfully completed NIH SBIR grant and am a co-investigator for an NIH R21/R33 grant proposal on bringing universal newborn hearing screening to Kenya.

I earned my PhD from the University of Washington working with Shyam Gollakota and my Bachelors degree with high honors from Dartmouth working with Xia Zhou.

Research impact

• My work on detecting ear infections using smartphones has been commercialized by Wavely Diagnostics where I am a co-founder. This technology is now FDA-listed and is available to select early access healthcare systems.


• My earable device for low-cost newborn hearing screening has been presented to Kenya’s Ministry of Health. It has led to a larger effort called TUNE to bring universal newborn hearing screening across Kenya.


• My work on contactless cardiac arrest detection using smart speakers has been licensed to Sound Life Sciences, which has recently been acquired by Google.


• I led CovidSafe/CommonCircle (now WA Notify), a COVID-19 contact tracing and symptom tracking app, which became part of official efforts by the WA Department of Health to manage the pandemic.