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Aug 28, 2026 This site has been rebuilt from the ground up on the al-folio Jekyll template: new projects, updated publications, a full CV, teaching portfolio, and a blog I am now launching with a post on federated learning in primary care. Feedback welcome.
Jul 01, 2026 I started as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (IKIM), University Hospital Essen, working on the FLIP-IT project: federated learning for medical data.
Jan 15, 2026 Two new publications: Semi-supervised vessel trajectory analysis for unregulated fishing activity detection in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, where I am the corresponding author, and Rethinking AI in youth mental health in the International Journal of Mental Health Systems.
Aug 15, 2025 Our overdose-risk classifier preprint, A machine learning approach: A classification model for overdose, is now on Research Square. The revised manuscript is under review at BMC Public Health.
Jul 01, 2025 Our paper Utilizing Machine Learning for Early Intervention and Risk Management in the Opioid Overdose Crisis was published in WIREs Computational Statistics. Separately, the HAVA maritime criminal detection project with Clause Technology and NCIS is underway.
Jul 01, 2024 I joined UBC’s Master of Data Science program as a Postdoctoral Teaching and Learning Fellow, teaching graduate and undergraduate data science courses.
Apr 30, 2024 I completed my PhD in Neuroscience at UBC. My dissertation, Machine Learning Applications in Addiction Risk Prediction, develops machine learning models for overdose risk prediction on the BC Provincial Overdose Cohort.