I am a final-year Computer Science undergrad at Bellini College of AI, Cybersecurity and Computing, University of South Florida (USF). My research interest is broadly under Representation Learning, Multimodal Learning, Ubiquitous Computing, and Computational Precision Medicine/Healthcare (specifically Medical Imaging and Auditing Framework).
I am also a research assistant @ USF advised by Profs. Lawrence Hall, Dmitry Goldgof, and Yu Sun, and research trainee @ Moffitt Cancer Center supervised by Naveena Gorre and Dr. Issam El Naqa.
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Experience
2025.05 - Present, REU, Robot Perception and Action Lab, Tampa, FL.
Advisor(s): Prof. Dmitry Golgof & Prof. Yu Sun.
Project: Real-time Multimodal Neonatal Pain Monitoring System2023.12 - Present, Reseach Assistant, Intelligent Systems Lab, Tampa, FL.
Advisor(s): Prof. Lawrence Hall.
Project: Out-of-Distribution (OOD) Generalization in Chest X-Ray, Invariant Risk Minimization (IRMv1) Evaluation2023.04 - Present, Research Trainee, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL.
Supervisor(s): Naveena Gorre & Dr. Issam El Naqa.
Project: Moffitt AI Interface for Cancer Research (MAI-CARE)
Extracurriculum
- 2025.09 - 2025.12, Participant, CRA’s UR2PhD Cohort 6
Research Proposal: A Universal Evaluation Framework for Visual Noise in Contained Systems - 2024.06 - 2025.12, Social Media Manager, IEEE Computer Society USF Chapter
Social Media (to Instagram/LinkedIn/TechX website): Linktree - 2024.08 - Present, Statistics/Calculus/Programming Tutor, Academic Success Center
- 2024.08 - 2025.12, Teaching Assistant, CDA 3201 Computer Logic and Design
Education
- 2022.08 - 2026.08 (Expected), B.S. in Computer Science, Bellini College of AI, Cybersecurity, and Computing, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
GPA: 3.93/4.0 - Merits: Dean’s List 2022 - Present
Updates
2025.12: 🎉🎉 I am honored to receive the CRA’s UR2PhD Certificate Cohort 6! Check out my little recap to join us in the celebration.
2025.12: 🎉🎉 We (Tima and I) presented our CRA’s UR2PhD Research Proposal, “A Universal Evaluation Framework for Visual Noise in Contained Systems” at the 1st Bellini College REU Symposium! Check out our poster and proposal for more details.
2025.11: 🚀🚀 We (IEEECS_USF) successfully hosted our 2nd run of the only TechX conference in US/Canada with over 500 signups, 350 participants, and 200,000 social media reaches! Check out our blog (written by yours sincere) for more details.
2025.10: 🚀🚀 Our abstract “Noise Injection: Improving Out-of-Distribution Generalization for Limited Size Datasets” has been selected for oral presentation at SPIE Medical Imaging 2026: CAD conference in Vancouver, BC!
2025.10: 🐱🐱 I am excited to join the RISE-MICCAI program to work with my mentor on my first submission towards MICCAI 2026 conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates!
2025.09: 🥹🥹 I attended the RISE-MICCAI LISA challenge for the 1st time, and I (barely) survived navigating GAIVI through Out-of-Memory issues for large-scale model…
2025.08: 🐱🐱 I am thrilled to be back to Emory Health AI Datathon & Summer School 2025 in Atlanta, GA to deep dive into applications of medical imaging embeddings!
2025.08: 🐱✈️ I flew 710 miles from Tampa, FL to Nashville, TN to attend my long-awaited VALIANT Summer School 2025 for medical imaging and surgical planning with AI!
2025.05: 🎉📢 I joined the Robot Perception and Action Lab (RPAL), Tampa, FL as an REU student on the “Multimodal Neonatal Pain Monitoring System” project.
2025.04: 🎉🎉 Okay, our team (IEEECS_USF) is honored to receive 3 awards - Best Social Media, Outstanding Workshop and Best Photograph - at the annual USF Engineering Banquet! As the Social Media Chair and Photographer, I am so damn proud of our team. Check out our little recap (written by yours sincere) to join us in the celebration.
2025.02: 🎉🥹 I presented my first research poster, “Can Invariant Risk Minimization (IRMv1) overcome shortcut learning?” at the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC) 2025! Check out our poster to see my diagrams…
2025.01: 🎉📢 Our team developed “Less Confusion in Diffusion”, an open-source Vision-Language model to detect common artifacts in Diffusion-Weighted MRI, at BrainHack Vanderbilt 2025 in Nashville, TN!
2025.01: 🎉🎉 I am honored to receive the Harry and Dorothy Kupferer Scholarship from USF Engineering!
2024.11: 🚀🚀 Our team (IEEECS_USF) successfully hosted the 1st TechX conference in US/Canada with over 130 participants!
2024.08: 🎉🎉 Our project “5-year breast cancer risk prediction using EMBED” won 3rd place at the Emory Health AI Bias Datathon & Summer School 2024 in Atlanta, GA!
2024.06: 🎉📢 I joined the IEEE Computer Society Student Branch Chapter @ USF (IEEECS_USF) as a social media manager or marketing chair, you name it.
2023.12: 🎉📢 I joined the Intelligent Systems Lab (ISL), Tampa, FL as a research assistant on a series of projects.
2023.07: 🎉🎉 I am honored to receive the Undergraduate Engineer’s Scholarship Fund!
2023.04: 🎉📢 I joined the Machine Learning Department, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL as a contributor to the open-source project “Moffitt AI Interface for Cancer Research (MAI-CARE)”.
2022.08: 🎓🎓 I started my degree in Computer Science (CS) at University of South Florida (USF), Tampa, FL with a 4-year Green and Gold Scholarship.