I am an Assistant Research Scientist at the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare at the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD). My research focuses on understanding human learning in the context of surgical skills, and how technology can actively augment human learning using coaching and skill information from experts. I am currently working on projects related to learning in different contexts ranging across various surgical disciplines – urology, head and neck, gynecology, and more recently for child development.

I did my PhD with the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore). I was working on methods for automated evaluation and feedback generation for surgical training. I explored crowd sourcing and machine learning for developing surgical data science tools to deliver scalable automated surgical coaching. Read more ...

Prior to being a Hopkins grad student, I was studying Electrical Engineering during my undergrad at IIT Bombay (India). I was involved in many student bodies and clubs along with working on robotics projects for fun and competitions. I developed a keen interest in image processing and computer vision during my senior thesis project. The combination of vision, graphics and robotics drove me to this inter-disciplinary field and applied for grad studies in both ECE and CS at the different schools. Read more ...