Ishan Patel ​– M.S in Computer Science student

Ishan is a Computer Science graduate student at Northeastern University. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from Gujarat Technological University, India. His interests include artificial intelligence, game development and machine learning.. With the mHealth Group, he is working on developing games for citizen science, where the game-playing crowd in cloud labels data that supports behaviorally-related health science research.  

Anne Smithey – B.S in Health Sciences student

Anne Smithey is a senior in the Health Science program. Among other jobs, Anne has worked as a research assistant in the Infection Control Department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and as a senior health educator and leadership council member for Peer Health Exchange in Boston. With the mHealth Research Group, Anne is working on the Virtual Bicycle Highway project.

Krystal Huey – Doctorate of Pharmacy student

Krystal is a fifth-year pharmacy student interested in how technology may impact pharmacy practice. Krystal has worked as a clinical trial coordinator and team manager at Brain Power, LLC, as a translational medicine clinical intern at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, and as a research assistant and peer tutor at Northeastern. With the mHealth Research Group, she is working on a study to validate microinteraction ecological momentary assessment (μEMA) for behavioural measurement.

Karmen Lu - B.S. in Computer Science student

Karmen is a rising sophomore in Computer Science at Northeastern. She is helping with mHealth Group mobile activity recognition projects this summer.  

Rohan Jahagirdar ​– M.S in Information Systems student

Rohan completed his undergraduate studies from Mumbai University, India. He worked for a startup called 135 Tech Labs developing mobile applications, backend data architecture, infrastructure scaling and mobile and web SDKs and APIs. He has worked as a research assistant working as a data architect at Northeastern, and as a Java Developer Intern with HealthEdge Software. He is currently working on developing mobile games-with-a-purpose to help researchers label mobile data to support machine learning and health experiments. 
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Clarence Hann ​– M.S in Game Science and Design student

Clarence is a Game Science and Design student at Northeastern, and he has completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering at East China Normal University. He has experience in Unity Game development as well as .NET application development. He is working on the design and development of serious games that assist researchers who need labeled datasets to support the development of new algorithms for behavioral measurement using wearable sensors and mobile phones. 
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Aiden Zhang - B.A. in Computer Science and Economics student

Aiden is a rising senior in Computer Science and Economics at Brandeis University. He worked as data analyst intern in TalkingData last summer, where he did a project analyzing mobile app usage data. He is working with the mHealth Group this summer helping with mobile activity recognition projects. 

Alums

Spencer Franklin – Computer Science and Game Design student

Spencer is a 4th year B.S. in Computer Science and Game Design student.
He has worked on a diverse set of games at various times, as a developer, artist, or QA tester. He is especially interested in designing educational games. For the mHealth Research Group, Spencer is working on software development for the MDCAS crowdsourcing project. 

Ranadeep Guha ​– M.S in Information Systems student

Ranadeep is a second year Information Systems student at Northeastern University and has completed his Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering at Heritage Institute of Technology, India in 2013. He has 4 years of industrial experience in Software Development, DevOps and Quality Engineering in companies including New York Life, Cognizant and Ericsson. He is extremely passionate about architecting applications on the cloud, experimenting with frontier technologies and solving coding puzzles. He is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and Developer. At the mHealth group, he is using his expertise in developing on-demand and scalable applications on the cloud to run algorithms for analyzing data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) study.​

Nihar Patel ​– M.S in Computer Science student

Nihar Patel holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Gujarat Technological University, India. His interest lies in machine learning and artificial intelligence. In the mHealth group, he is working developing Unity games-with-a-purpose to help with labeling accelerometer data to support machine learning.  

Spencer Franklin – Computer Science and Game Design student

Spencer is a 4th year B.S. in Computer Science and Game Design student.
He has worked on a diverse set of games at various times, as a developer, artist, or QA tester. He is especially interested in designing educational games. For the mHealth Research Group, Spencer is working on software development for the MDCAS crowdsourcing project. 

Max Rais – B.S in Computer Science and Game Design student

Max is a fourth-year undergrad CS and Game Design student. Max has previously worked as a software engineering intern at Intuit, and has participated on teams programming games and applications using Unity for clients as car companies and publishers. He helped the team making games for science in Unity as part of the MDCAS crowdsourcing project. ​

Sushant Mimani ​– M.S in Computer Science student

Sushant worked as an SAP consultant for 4 years after earning a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, India. He has also worked as a software developer and a DevOps engineer during his internship and co-op as a master's degree candidate. Sushant recently worked on developing programs for data QC and analysis of the mHealth NHANES PAM dataset and is interested in Cloud infrastructure deployment and provisioning and big data processing.

Ayush Kumar Singh ​– M.S in Computer Science student

Ayush previously earned a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Graphic Era University in Dehradun, India. He has worked as a machine learning intern for Dassault Systèmes and a software engineer for TripAdvisor. Ayush recently worked on NHANES AWS project and is interested in real time inference systems using machine learning on large-scale sensor data.