research

current

  • sleep + computational research

    Stanford Heller Laboratory · April 2026 — present

    Work on automated sleep staging and experimental EEG/EMG analysis, including parsing recordings, comparing automated Wake/NREM/REM classifications with human-corrected scores, and examining how classifier behavior shifts across experimental conditions.

    The current thread is validation — establishing where automated scores can be used directly, and where an experiment's interpretation would change if they were.

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  • how representative is human biometric data?

    University of Kelaniya · 2023 — 2025

    Craniofacial variation among Sri Lanka's Indigenous Vedda community. I built and analyzed an original craniofacial dataset and examined how variation is distributed across the population.

    The work resulted in a first-author publication in the International Journal of Morphology. It was a morphology study, not a machine learning one — but the question of whose bodies end up inside reference datasets is part of why I still think about it.

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  • cultural anthropology

    Sri Lanka · 2023 — 2025

    Interviews with members of Sri Lanka's Indigenous Vedda community examining changes and continuities in religion and worldview, with accompanying ethnographic and autoethnographic work.

  • anticancer research

    Northeastern Illinois University · 2024 — 2025

    Computational and chemistry work investigating arsenoplatins, including SwissTargetPrediction to explore potential targets and SwissADME to examine properties including solubility.

  • earlier research

    Illinois Institute of Technology · Summer 2022

    A research internship in Food Science and Nutrition involving measurement of fasted blood glucose and exposure to wet-lab methods.