Salah Assana

Salah Assana

Research Assistant ll

Harvard Medical School

Biography

I am an Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare enthusiast with a background in machine learning, signal processing and medical imaging. I have worked as a Research Assistant (RA) since 2015 at several laboratories including the UVA Link Lab, MIT Media Lab and HMS Cardiac MR Center. My work has been published to several journals and conferences including JMRI, MRM, Radiology, ISMRM, MobiCom, and UbiComp.

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Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Signal Processing
  • Medical Imaging
Education
  • Master of Science, 2020

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • BS in Computer Science, 2017

    University of Virginia

  • AS in Computer Science, 2015

    Northern Virginia Community College

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Harvard Medical School
Research Assistant II
Jan 2021 – Present Boston, MA
  • Became proficient in operating Siemens Vida 3T scanner, with authorization to perform independent scans.
  • Contributed to the development of ML models for accelerated imaging, denoising, and heart function analysis.
  • Deployed ML models on Siemens scanner for real-time data processing using prototype OpenRecon framework.
 
 
 
 
 
MIT Media Lab
Research Assistant
Sep 2018 – May 2020 Cambridge, MA
  • Developed a novel mmWave sensor capable of contactless cardiovascular activity monitoring.
  • Used C++ Boost library to enable the use of multiple sensors concurrently and allow for real-time data evaluation.
  • Used MATLAB to filter signal and analyze the cardiac data for signs of heart illnesses.
 
 
 
 
 
Booz Allen Hamilton
Machine Learning Engineer
Sep 2017 – Aug 2018 Tysons, VA
  • Worked as full stack developer on a scrum team with C# and JavaScript libraries like AngularJS & Backbone.
  • Used Hadoop and Hive to build a scalable distributed data lake on AWS.
  • Built a abstractive text summarization tool using TensorFlow, NumPy, Pandas and Pyrouge
 
 
 
 
 
UVA Link Lab
Research Assistant
Sep 2015 – May 2017 Charlottesville, VA
  • Introduced a new doorway sensor capable of determine travel direction with 99.7% accuracy.
  • Wrote multi-threaded C driver to increase speed of sensor by 3000% & reduced energy consumption by 50%.
  • Develop optical flow based tracking algorithm robust to illumination changes & background movement in Python.

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