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You’ve found my abode on the web – welcome! As a brief introduction, I currently live in Pittsburgh, and I’ll soon be a Radiation Oncology resident at Johns Hopkins. Before residency, I worked at MIM Software on Radiation Oncology AI and was part of Theory Division, Jacob Scott’s lab doing evolutionary/engineering research. If you want to reach out to me, you can send me an email; I’m also on Twitter, LinkedIn, and GitHub.

While I take my work seriously, I like have fun with what I do along with those around me. I’m a big movie buff; avid reader of sci-fi and fantasy; and pretty decent cook. If there’s a bug in software or if given a challenge to solve, I put everything into solving it. I feel the same way about helping my patients; there is nothing that’ll stop me from trying to achieve the best outcome for them. However, road-blocks in research sometimes require a good rest to come up with new ideas. But being single-minded in solving hurdles is similar to how slime molds approach problems and leads to a lot of learning at the edges of solution space. It also sometimes incurs some incidental benefits like finding a hole in my hospital’s firewall in medical school while trying to build a bioreactor for research.

As a biomedical engineer, my mission has always been to find a balance between engineering and medicine. This hasn’t changed in medical school & residency, and is especially relevant when using machines and software to treat cancer. Between the modalities/specialties treating cancer (surgery, medicine, and radiation), radiation oncologists bring engineering and technical expertise and that is what I aim to contribute to the field as a whole. Innovation is central to both engineering and medicine, a vital aspect of my day-to-day and goals for the future.

I tend to scribble ideas on my trusty notepad. But assembling ideas into longer-form posts may inform others about the approach I took to solve problems they have/may come to face. It’s also a good exercise for me. Topics will be varied, but posts will be tagged to improve organization.