I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia, under the guidance of Dr. Praveen Rao. I am a part of the Scalable Data Science (SDS) Lab at the School of Engineering, where I develop and hack scalable algorithms and systems for data and knowledge management, and information retrieval. I am also affiliated with the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI), at the School of Medicine, where I test innovative applications