Her research is the first-of-its-kind providing a starting point for future research into real-time prediction and integration into a smartwatch, helping millions who experience vasovagal syncope a safe and comfortable position before fainting
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Sirihaasa Nallamothu wants to explore the world of AI and its social and medical implications in the future.
For her project on modern technology and computer science to address the research gap to predict Vasovagal Syncope in Patients with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), Indian American teenager Sirihaasa Nallamothu was selected as a recipient of the Cutler-Bell Prize. She was selected, along with three others, amongst a pool of graduating high school seniors throughout the US for the prize.
A panel of judges selected the recipients based on their projects’ ingenuity, complexity, relevancy, and originality. Every recipient of the Cutler-Bell Prize will be awarded a US$10,000 prize and a trip to the ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize Reception. The award is financially supported by a US$1 million endowment from the Gordon Bell and David Cutler Endowment Fund.
In her award-winning project, Nallamothu predicts and identifies relevant features of what causes episodes of fainting(Syncope) in patients with POTS using machine learning methods and physiological data. In her aim to address the gap on the subject, she wrote a Python script to extract the 15-minute window signal data of heart rate, blood volumetric pressure, EDA, temperature, and accelerometer data.
Nallamothu is the first person to conduct an IRB research study and collect human subject field data on POTS patients in the real world using non-invasive technologies. Her research is the first-of-its-kind providing a starting point for future research into real-time prediction and integration into a smartwatch, helping millions who experience vasovagal syncope a safe and comfortable position before fainting.
Sirihaasa Nallamothu wants to explore the world of AI and its social and medical implications in the future. A Kode with Klossy 2020 Web Dev scholar, Nallamothu is running ‘Girl Scouts Code’, an initiative that aims to teach Girl Scouts in the US coding. She founded a Girls Who Code club at her Middle school, developed and taught coding curriculum/activities, managed grants/funding, and networked and planned events.
The Cutler-Bell Prize promotes the field of computer science and empowers students to pursue computing challenges beyond the traditional classroom environment. In 2015, David Cutler and Gordon Bell established the award. Cutler is a software engineer, designer, and developer of several operating systems at Digital Equipment Corporation. Bell, an electrical engineer, is researcher emeritus at Microsoft Research.
