Hi there! I'm Sarah 👋

Hello! I'm Sarah, an aspiring research scientist interested in developing human-centered machine learning and data science solutions to improve healthcare access and outcomes.

As a student at Duke University, I immersed myself in the rich academic environment in Durham by pursuing a double major in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science with a Design Fellowship. I believe in building up our communities and joining technical expertise and human understanding to create meaningful impact. This fall, I will be pursuing a PhD at UNC Chapel Hill as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow (awarded April 2025).

My experiences primarily lie in developing healthcare innovations, from building cloud platforms for wearable devices to analyzing demographic gaps in medical datasets. I've also worked on designing and building fundamental biomedical instruments and low cost innovations, including automatic blood pressure cuffs and a gynecological examination table for clinics in rural Peru. At Duke, I've had the pleasure of working and training in the BIG IDEAs Lab led by Dr. Jessilyn Dunn. My research, published in The Lancet Digital Health, spans machine learning, biosignal processing, and healthcare equity, with projects ranging from illness detection systems to full-stack applications that democratize access to health technology.

When I'm not programming or tinkering with hardware, you can find me arranging new music for my a cappella group, singing and playing the piano, or lost in a good book [currently reading Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World].