PhD Year 5 Summary
Oct 1st 2024
My final year - defended, graduated, and transitioned to the next chapter.
Samir Akre-Bhide
I am a Clinical Data Scientist at Aura, developing AI models to enhance youth safety and mental health, and an independent consultant integrating wearable data for mental health applications.
I completed my PhD in Medical Informatics at UCLA, where I researched machine learning pipelines using smartphone and wearable data to monitor depression and mood.
Experience
Clinical Data Scientist
Aura
March 2025 - Present
Independent Consultant
Digital Sensing Integration LLC
September 2024 - Present
Ph.D. in Medical Informatics
University of California, Los Angeles
2019 - 2024
Co-Founder & CEO
AiroSolve
January 2022 - December 2023
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Davis
2014 - 2018
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PhD Year 4 Summary
Oct 1st 2023
A year of rejection, pivots, and finding my research direction while stepping back from AiroSolve.
PhD Year 3 In Review
Oct 1st 2022
My 3rd year flew by. I still don't believe it is already over and I feel like I still have not done much research.