Professional Interests

Modern society as we know it is currently undergoing a tech revolution. The advent of the computer revolutionized how we record and receive information. The mobile phone completely transformed how people communicate. More recently Uber has innovated the antiquated taxi cab experience, Nest has made the home A/C system 'smart,' and Robinhood is using digital technology to bring stock trading to the masses.

Healthcare is the next frontier of technological advancement, and my future career goals are to be involved in the transformation. The current innovations happening in the field are astounding. Advances in engineering technology in itself have lead to inventions such as a continuous glucose monitoring system from Abbott and an invexpensive, portable HIV/AIDS diagnostic device from Daktari.

An even more rampant area of innovation is combining biologically-inspired hardware with digital monitoring or feedback. mc10 has developed a band-aid sized hydration sensor which monitors hydration levels and relays the data to a smartphone. Proteus Digital Health uses a similar idea: an ingestible sensor, wearable patch, and smartphone work together to monitor a patient's physiological condition.

I reference these examples simply to say that there is ample innovation happening in the broad field of biomedicine and bio-inspired tech, and that I hope to someday be involved in leading and implementing the new paradigm of healthcare. For now I hope to complete my degree and gain as many relevant, interesting experiences as possible along the way.