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Biosurveillance
Pandemic Pulse — Digital Biosurveillance
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"Winner, DHS Hidden Signals Challenge — beat 69 other entries."
Led at Boston Children's Hospital. Built a real-time weak-signal platform fusing Twitter, Google Trends, and news feeds to flag disease outbreaks before official reporting caught up. Retrospectively flagged the Boston Marathon bombing and a Hepatitis A outbreak days ahead of official alerts; tested by federal public health officials.
Winner DHS Hidden Signals ChallengeBeat 69 other entries
Led at Boston Children’s Hospital. Led analytics and machine learning for the Meta/UMD COVID-19 Trends & Impact Survey, benchmarking self-reported signals against official case data worldwide.
114+ countries30M+ survey responses
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Outcome: Co-first author; dashboards adopted by WHO, CDC, and national agencies for real-time pandemic situational awareness.
Led at Boston Children’s Hospital. Co-authored a globally comprehensive human-movement typology using anonymized smartphone location data with differential-privacy protections.
300M+ users65% of Earth’s populated surface
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Outcome: Published in Nature Human Behaviour (2020, 146 citations); showed movement declines 40% faster in low-income regions, informing global epidemic modeling.
Led at Boston Children’s Hospital. Mapped 180 critical mother-infant care data elements to USCDI/FHIR, then prototyped a SMART-on-FHIR dashboard unifying maternal and infant records at the bedside.
91%+ already FHIR-covered180 data elements mapped
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Outcome: Published in JAMIA (2025); prototype endorsed by HHS stakeholders for a hospital pilot and cited in ONC interoperability guidance.
Led at Boston Children’s Hospital. Senior-authored a continuous, noninvasive method to estimate arterial oxygen (PaO₂) from standard ICU monitor data, addressing the “SpO₂ = 100%” blind spot.
52,000 paired ABG/vital samples2 hospitals
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Outcome: Published in Critical Care Explorations (2021); designed for bedside monitor integration to catch dangerous oxygen drops between blood-gas draws.
Led at Boston Children’s Hospital. Built and deployed an NLP pipeline that scans Twitter for food-poisoning signals, engages affected users, and routes verified clusters to health-department dashboards.
18 agencies live3× reporting increase
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Outcome: Cut outbreak detection and response time by about 60% across U.S. and U.K. health departments; documented in three peer-reviewed papers (2018–2020).
An independent Global Tech Uplift project. Designed streaming DNS analytics to detect covert command-and-control activity and deliver real-time analyst alerts.
Streaming DNS analyticsReal-time analyst alerts
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Organization: Independent project by Global Tech Uplift.
An independent Global Tech Uplift project. Developed a decision-support concept to organize field data, prioritize areas of concern, and help humanitarian teams coordinate analytical work.
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Organization: Independent project by Global Tech Uplift.
