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Emi Aoki

Graduate Research Assistant

College
Francis College of Engineering
Department
Center for Advanced Computation and Telecommunications (CACT), Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

Data Analysis, Data-Driven Computational Modeling, Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, Applications of Machine Learning on Medical Imaging

Education

  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts of Lowell
  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts of Lowell

Selected Awards and Honors

  • Dean鈥檚 Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement (May 2020 and May 2021)
  • Jeffery Cosiol International Merit Scholarship Endowment (Sep. 2019 鈥� May 2020)
  • Dean鈥檚 List (Fall 2017 鈥� Spring 2020)
  • International Academic Council Scholarship (Sep. 2017 鈥� May 2020)

Selected Publications

Projects, Publications, Work and Other Activities

  • Arielle Joasil, Habibat Alimi, Sarah Simmons, Emi Aoki, and Kavitha Chandra, "A Survey and Classification of COVID-19 Open-Access Datasets." In preparation.

  • Jay Weitzen, Rachel Wakim, Joshua Watts, Emi Aoki, Sivly Lay, and Naye Yoni, "," IEEE COMCAS, 2019.

  • Graduate Research Assistant (Fall 2020 鈥� Winter 2022):
    • Thesis Title: A Statistical Characterization of Covid-19 Infections Considering Population Density, Race and Ethnicity, and Age Groups as Covariates
    • Advisors: Prof. Kavitha Chandra and Charles Thompson
    • Investigate data-driven relationships between city-level geographic, demographic data and Covid-19 confirmed cases
    • Develop methods for presenting findings to a broader community to empower community mitigation strategies
    • Develop data collection algorithms using Python


  • Research Project (March 2021 鈥� June 2021):
    • Advisor: Prof. Zhu Mao, Sponsored by NEC Laboratories America
    • Investigated the power line-induced vibration data using Python
    • Developed feature-based classification of utility pole


  • Research Project (Jan. 2020 鈥� Jan. 2021):
    • Advisor: Prof. Zhu Mao
    • Investigated possible HoloLens applications such as a hollow wall detector using knocking sounds as input
    • Developed HoloLens applications (Unity 3D) to establish connection between HoloLens and Other devices (i.e., Android, MATLAB) for transferring data


  • Lab Grader (Fall 2019, Spring 2020):
    • Assisted Prof. Dohn Bowden and teaching assistants for EECE.3120 鈥� Electronics II Laboratory
    • Punctually evaluated lab reports for 20-22 students per semester
    • Supported students in lab hours and open labs


  • Undergraduate Research Assistant (May 2018 鈥� Dec. 2018):
    • Advisors: Prof. Jay Weitzen and Prof. Rachel Wakim
    • Collaboratively developed a post-processing software used to map an indoor wireless coverage
    • Performed software testing to detect errors