Samir Akre-Bhide's Personal Website - Clinical Data Scientist, Independent Consultant, and PhD in Medical Informatics.https://www.samirakre.com/https://www.samirakre.com/2026-04-21-stelo-vs-lingo-cgm-comparisonhttps://www.samirakre.com/2026-04-21-stelo-vs-lingo-cgm-comparisonTwo weeks of wearing a Stelo and Lingo simultaneously revealed correlated trends but a 20 mg/dL calibration gap. This is why you need an A1C baseline to interpret a CGM.Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.samirakre.com/2024-10-01-year_5_summaryhttps://www.samirakre.com/2024-10-01-year_5_summaryMy final year - defended, graduated, and transitioned to the next chapter.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.samirakre.com/2023-10-01-year_4_summaryhttps://www.samirakre.com/2023-10-01-year_4_summaryA year of rejection, pivots, and finding my research direction while stepping back from AiroSolve.Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.samirakre.com/2022-10-01-year_3_summaryhttps://www.samirakre.com/2022-10-01-year_3_summaryMy 3rd year flew by. I still don't believe it is already over and I feel like I still have not done much research.Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.samirakre.com/2021-10-17-year_2_summaryhttps://www.samirakre.com/2021-10-17-year_2_summaryThe second year of this PhD was strange. I don't feel like I was particularly productive and I'm not sure if I can disentangle how much was pandemic and how much was regular un-productivity.Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.samirakre.com/2020-12-31-moonlanderhttps://www.samirakre.com/2020-12-31-moonlanderIn August of 2020, I spent a night indoors and got sucked into the dark space that is ergonomics youtube, leading me to impulse spend $365 on a split keyboard.Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.samirakre.com/2020-07-02-what_happened_to_my_startupshttps://www.samirakre.com/2020-07-02-what_happened_to_my_startups"Is this a real startup?", I would often ask myself in the time between working on projects.Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.samirakre.com/2020-05-11-why_start_a_companyhttps://www.samirakre.com/2020-05-11-why_start_a_companyThe purpose of this post is to force myself to reflect on my life decisions, have a record of my decision process as a young adult on the internet forever, and help someone.Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.samirakre.com/2019-07-30-la_biotech_startup_scenehttps://www.samirakre.com/2019-07-30-la_biotech_startup_sceneI've been telling people my goal is to start a company at some point during my Ph.D, and since I'm going to be in LA for the foreseeable future, I did some intense DuckDuckGo-ing to examine the state of LA's biotech scene.Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.samirakre.com/2019-06-23-biomedical_termshttps://www.samirakre.com/2019-06-23-biomedical_termsFor people generally interested in biology, computers, medicine, and engineering there are too many fields for what feels like the same thing.Sun, 23 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.samirakre.com/2019-05-18-why_bloghttps://www.samirakre.com/2019-05-18-why_blogI am now a terrible writer. I intentionally misspell words, use the wrong form of there/their/they're, and have proved that my high AP English test score meant literally nothing.Sat, 18 May 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.samirakre.com/2017-09-16-3dprint_1https://www.samirakre.com/2017-09-16-3dprint_1About a week ago I was feeling overwhelmed by my minimum wage paycheck and impulse bought a 3D printer.Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.samirakre.com/2017-05-25-genefigurehttps://www.samirakre.com/2017-05-25-genefigureA web app to help create genome figures for use in scientific papers using SVG, with support for manual input or GenBank file uploads.Thu, 25 May 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.samirakre.com/2017-05-11-joulehttps://www.samirakre.com/2017-05-11-jouleI spent a stupidly long time trying to get my Joule set up for the first time using primarily Intel's documentation, so I've decided to write a post detailing how exactly to do it on a Mac.Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT