Current Projects

• LiveNet: My Ph.D thesis research on using wearable technology for non-invasive physiological and contextual ambulatory/wearable sensing, proactive real-time health monitoring and classification, long-term continuous physiological behavior trending, and distributed healthcare applications involving the sharing of physiological information among peer groups.

• MIThril 2003: The new flagship wearable platform for the MIT Wearables Group. This wearable platform leverage commodity embedded hardware and centers around a sensor hub and interface board I developed call the SAK2. The architecture allows for the rapid prototyping of a variety of distributed, group-based applications and is capable of real-time data streaming, complex data processing and classification, and a variety of interaction modalities. This technology recently won the Most Visionary Technology Award at the MIT Enterprise Forum's 25th Annual Technology Conference.

• MGH Depression Study: A study in collaboration with Dr. Carl Marci, Director of the Social Neuroscience at the Massachusetts General Hospital using mobile physiologic sensing technology to classify depression and the effects of electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) on depression state.

• Poker-Physiometrics Study: A pilot study to correlate non-invasive physiology and contextual sensing data to stress in no-limit Texas Holdem tournaments. Volunteers Wanted!!!

• Army Natick Labs: We have recently started a research collaboration with the Army Research Institute for Environmental Medicine (ARIEM) at Natick. Our pilot study involves using non-invasive accelerometer sensing to determine hypothermia states, as part of a broader initiative to develop a physiologic monitoring device for soldiers under the US. Army's Objective Force Warrior Program.
  

• UR Epilepsy Study:
A colloboration with the Dr. Berg at the University of Rochester's Strong Hospital, to quantify epileptic seizures through accelerometry and to be able to develop a ambulatory monitor with a real-time classifier.

• Voxys Healthcare Systems:Co-founded a startup venture focusing on developing wearable physiologic monitoring applications for the consumer healthcare market. Our current focuses are on long-term predictive healthcare applications and electronic data capture/monitoring applications.
  

• Low-Cost Biometric and Health Monitors: In developing countries, it is difficult to provide adequate monitoring services to the critically ill as hospitals are understaffed and cannot afford expensive monitoring systems. This initiative focuses on developing a portable, cheap, wearable device with low-power processing and sensing capabilities that can monitor and record vital patient signs (EKG, temperature, movement, respiration, etc.) in order to take the place of direct human monitoring. VitaMon is my first attempt at using Media Lab technologies toward this end.
  

• SocioSalon: This was the spearheading event at a Bob Metcalfe hosted salon event for a long-term MIT initiative to explore new enabling technologies to help people to analyze and data-mine social networks.
  

• Advanced Diamond Solutions, Inc.: Co-founded a company which has developed a revolutionary diamond composite material for the thermal management industry and semiconductor packaging industries. The company was a case study for SEM.089, an undergraduate entrepreneurship seminar this Fall, 2003. We won the 2003 MIT 1K Business Plan Award for the Materials Industry and were a 2004 MIT 50K Business Plan Competition Finalist.