About Me

 

I am a Data Science Engineer and my favorite thing to do is search for patterns which started when I was first exposed to Number Theory during my undergraduate degree.

I am currently pursuing my MS degree in CS at Georgia Tech and looking for ways to contribute to Educational Technology as I have been always passionate about learning and learning about learning.  Having a background in Mathematics, in particular Number Theory and Group Theory, the first natural choice for contribution to Education Technology was in designing an Intelligent Tutoring System which would guide students through the proofs and abstract thinking. I was planning to target self-motivated lifelong learners (graduate level and above) seeking help in areas ranging from article result interpretation to construction of solid foundations for new proofs.

After dwelling on this overambitious goal for awhile, a totally different problem re-emerged with the sudden insight – what if we can adapt technologies to learning styles for individuals who have  little choice in how they learn?

A very dear person to me suffers from narcolepsy, a neurological disorder manifesting itself in excessive daytime sleepiness alongside with other symptoms such as hallucination, cataplexy and automatic behaviors. In the past I have made a few attempts, although futile, directed towards dealing with the symptoms – ranging from learning foundational neuroscience (in the hope of understanding this disorder) to seeking ways of collecting data to predict effectiveness of different medications.

Our modern society demands a substantial amount of attention to new technologies and informational sources submitting individuals with narcolepsy to a greater level of frustration and lower level of quality of life. What I hope to get out of this research is a new understanding of the symptoms’ temporal behavior in order to minimize this frustration. Finding optimal ways of performing those activities which spark the various symptoms of this condition can be modeled for each person by learning their individual narcoleptic characteristics. Understanding their own symptoms’ patterns with timely precision can empower individuals to take control of what, when and how they could learn!