My Ph.D. in three minutes

A few weeks ago I defended my Ph.D. Some people were kind enough to ask the obvious follow-up: defended what, exactly?

The dissertation is 278 pages, and I know nobody is going to read 278 pages. So I tried to tell the whole thing in three minutes instead, with pictures, a map and my own voice.

Watch the 3-minute video on YouTube, or play it on the home page of navid.tech.

It starts in Rolla, Missouri, the Show-Me State, with thirteen cancer registries that cannot share their records. It ends somewhere a little more general: how institutions that cannot show each other their data can still learn from each other, and how to predict when something will happen, not just whether.

Thank you to my advisor, Sajal K. Das, and the CReWMaN Lab, and to the Department of Computer Science at Missouri S&T for the research and teaching assistantships that supported this work. And thank you to NSF I-Corps for helping me take it beyond the lab.