Ann Arbor, MI · gap year before med school
biomedical engineer, becoming a physician-scientist
This is where I keep the things I've built, a little of what I write, and some proof that there's more to gap years than LinkedIn posts.
About
I finished a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan in three years. Mostly what it taught me is that the best fixes for medical problems tend to come from people willing to sit in both rooms — the lab and the clinic — instead of picking one.
Right now I'm in a gap year before starting at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in summer 2027, through the FlexMed early-assurance program. I'm spending it in MedTech consulting, keeping a few side projects alive, and thinking through what kind of physician I actually want to be.
Short version of the plan: become a surgeon — probably in neurosurgery — who also builds the tools the field needs, instead of only using the ones handed down.
Work & projects
A palm-press eye drop applicator for glaucoma patients with limited hand dexterity. Led a six-person team through BME 450 and a full NIH DEBUT Challenge submission — prior-art search, FDA 510(k) pathway research, working prototype, the whole packet. Faculty sponsor: Dr. Wrobel.
Working out of the Chicago office on MedTech and pharma-adjacent client work, including a strategy deck on fragmented ServiceNow adoption across maintenance operations for a hyperscale data center client.
MATLAB-based computational modeling work that contributed to two publications in AJP-Renal Physiology.
Machine learning applied to RNA-sequencing data.
Microcontroller and sensor prototyping for low-resource health settings.
Direct, patient-facing clinical experience — the ground truth for everything above.
Writing
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Photos
Right now
Western (Lehndi) Punjabi — the Gujrat/Gujranwala dialect.
Shookeen — a hookah and chai cafe I'm planning to open next year.
Mostly Pakistani and South Asian food. Cookout centerpiece: masala yogurt-marinated chicken drumsticks.
Cerebral thrillers and heist films — anything with a Nolan-shaped puzzle box.
Bhangra content, and generally staying close to Punjabi music, poetry, and folklore.