Meet the CareDEX Team

PI, Co-PIs & Senior Investigators

Prof. Nalini Venkatasubramanian
UCI, Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences (UCI/CS), Prof.
(PI)
Prof. Sharad Mehrotra
UCI/CS, Prof.
(Co-PI
)
Prof. Nikil Dutt
UCI/CS, Prof.
(
Co-PI)
Lisa Gibbs, MD
UCI, Chief, Div. of Geriatric
Medicine & Gerontology,
Medical Dir.
(Co-PI)
Julie Rousseau, PhD, CNM, RN
Project Scientist/Director of Strategic Initiatives
Division of Geriatrics,
School of Medicine
Volunteer Clinical Professor, School of Nursing
University of California, Irvine
(Co-PI)
Ronald T. Eguchi
ImageCat, Inc., CEO
(Industry collaborator)
Dr. Nnenia M. Campbell
Natural Hazards Center
(Collaborator)
Dr. Marina Mendoza
ImageCat, Inc., Engineer
(Industry collaborator)
Saina Danner
Healthcare IT Consultant
ZhengHui Hu
Programmer Analyst at Imagecat Inc.
(Industry collaborator)
Chris Davison
Associate professor of Information Technology at Ball State University

CIVIC Engagement Core Partners and Collaborators

Amanda Kimball
Fire Protection Research
Institute, Dir.
(Core Partner)
Roxann Crawford
FEMA, Region IX
(Collaborator & Advisory
Board
)
Casey Grant
DS Research Associates &
Engineers, Exec. Dir.
(Collaborator)
Robert Tutterow
NFPA, Fire Service Section
Chair
(Advisory Board)
Davis Park
Center for Innovation and
Wellbeing, Front Porch Living,
Dir.
(Collaborator & Core Partner)
Kristle Bulleman
Front Porch Living,
Field Coord. & Trainer
(Collaborator & Core Partner)
Nadine Roisman
Walnut Village, Exec. Dir.
(Core Partner & Advisory
Board
)
Pamela Lowe
Walnut Village Retirement
Community, Dir. of Health
Services
(Collaborator)
Gregory Hwee
Front Porch Living,
Field Coord.
(Collaborator & Core Partner)
Victoria Hutchison
Research Project Manager at Fire Protection Research Foundation
(Core Partner)

Students

Modeste Kenne
UCI Ph.D. Student
Research areas: Networked Systems, Internet of Things, Smart Resilient Communities, Cyber-physical Systems
Elahe Khatibi
UCI Ph.D. Student
Research areas: Simulations,
Inverse problems using Internet of Things,
Data Generation
Mowhebat Bazargani
UCI Ph.D. Student
Research areas: Simulations, data generation, inverse problems using the Internet of Things
Shweta Iyer
UCI Alumni – Software Development Engineer
(Amazon)
Guoxi Wang
UCI Ph.D. Student
Research areas: Software-defined networking (SDN) and network security
Rahul Atul Bhope
UCI Ph.D. Student
Research areas: Wireless Communications, Mobile Computing, and Machine Learning, Federated Learning, Internet of Things, Localization and Healthcare
Peeyush Gupta
Graduate Research Assistant at UC Irvine
Research areas: TBD
Yiming Lin
Ph.D. Candidate Student & Graduate Research Assistant
Research areas: Data Quality, Data Management, Streaming Data Analysis, and IoT
Nada Lahjouji
UCI Ph.D. Student
Research areas: Database Systems and Data Management
Kushal Kuchibhotla
UCI Undergraduate Student
Research areas: TBD
Ishan Varshney
UCI Undergraduate Student
Research areas: Data Analytics, Data Management, Machine Learning, and Internet of Things
James Homer
UCI Undergraduate Student Research areas: Data Management, Hardware Testing, and Internet of Things
Celeste Penney
UCLA Undergraduate Student Research areas: Emergency Medicine, Digital Health, and Psychiatry
Ian K. Herman
University of Hawaii Undergraduate Student Research areas: AI, Theoretical Computer Science, Cyber Security, and IoT