Research Jobs and Experiences

I earned my undergraduate degree in System & Information Engineering at University of Virginia

(UVA). During my time at UVA, I was a student researcher in the Department of Systems &

Information Engineering, with specific research in medical systems and chronic illness. My two

years of experience conducting that research gave me insights into the complex environment of

research that information systems create. As a researcher, I gained in-depth knowledge in this field

and also created a user-friendly interface that allows administrators to conduct data mining that

helps clinicians and chronic illness patients better monitor their health. I published a paper for the

2013 proceedings of the IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium titled

“Personalized Electronic Health Record System for Monitoring Patients with Chronic Disease”

reflecting my findings. (Available at: at: http://tinyurl.com/IEEE-Monitoring-Chronic)

During the summer of 2013, I served as a research intern for Carnegie Mellon University in the

Human-Computer Interaction Institute department where I created a Healthcare Data Visualization

App that aims to increase price transparency, reduce healthcare cost, and increase patient

satisfaction and safety ratings of hospitals. The goal of the Healthcare Visualization App is to

utilize the open sourced healthcare data provided by the government to create dynamic web-based

visualizations of the data, focusing on making the data understandable and useful to lay users.

As a research intern at Human Engineering Research Laboratory (HERL), I developed and

implemented an inexpensive method that uses the power of social media and crowdsourcing to

identify and recruit end users of assistive technology, and extracts their feedback, through an

application integrated with Facebook. I received recognition for valuable contributions to the

American Student Placements and Internships in Rehabilitation Engineering Program for this

project.

For my undergraduate senior design project, I worked in a capstone team to develop, test, and

evaluate an iPhone-based system that can capture and transmit images of printed ECGs through

the network cloud to care providers in the Emergency Department. My team submitted and

published paper for the 2012 proceedings of the IEEE Systems and Information Engineering

Design Symposium and received best paper award in System Design and Integration Track

category at the symposium. The paper was entitled “Smartphone application for transmission of

ECG images in pre-hospital STEMI treatment”. (Available at: http://tinyurl.com/IEEE-Medical-

App)

Writing Sample Links

IEEE Papers

Personalized Electronic Health Record System for

Monitoring Patients with Chronic Disease

http://tinyurl.com/IEEE-

Monitoring-Chronic

Smartphone Application for Transmission of ECG

Images in PreHospital STEMI Treatment

http://tinyurl.com/IEEE-Medical-

App

Research Reports

30-Day Readmission Trends and Variables of UVA

Hospital Dementia Patients

http://tinyurl.com/Dementia-

Patients

Building a Quantitative Case for the Medical and

Economic Potential of Symptom Tracking Tools

http://tinyurl.com/Medical-

Economic-Case

Data Mining & Analysis Research Sample

Design Improvements for the University of Virginia

Transplant Center http://tinyurl.com/UVA-Transplant

Spam Filtering http://tinyurl.com/Spam-Filtering

Analysis of Train Accidents in the U.S. During 2001 –

2012

http://tinyurl.com/Train-Accidents-

Report

All Abstracts available at: http://tinyurl.com/Imran-Writing-

Sample