SED Lab Alumni
2024
Huda Musa
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Huda is a third year Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. In the Safety, Equity, and Design Lab, she explored the use of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) feedback devices to improve survival rates among out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients. Huda assisted in conducting experiments, analyzed data, determined the efficacy of the feedback device, and made design improvements. Additionally, she worked on a secondary project involving systems analysis at a community health centre and midwife clinic, built process maps, and performed task analyses. Huda showcased her research at the Undergraduate Engineering Research Day (UNERD) hosted by the University of Toronto in August.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Lee Zheng is a 3rd year Computer Engineering student at the University of Toronto. His research focus in the SED lab was to assist in designing and conducting usability testing on the ML-empowered PSE reporting interface. Along with 2 other undergraduate researchers, he helped design the interface and assessed various approaches for integrating the machine learning algorithm and explainability feature into the interface. Additionally, he assisted with conducting iterative usability testing with healthcare professionals.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Seunghyun (Joe) Lee is an Industrial Engineering Student at University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity, & Design (SED) lab, Joe’s research was focused on assisting with the design and usability testing on the AI-powered Patient Safety Event (PSE) reporting interface. His responsibilities included aiding in the interface design and evaluating different strategies for integrating the machine learning algorithm and explainability feature. Moreover, he contributed to the iterative usability testing process with healthcare professionals.
Danne Mohamed
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Danne Mohamed is a third year student at Queen's University, specializing in Computer Science and Math/Statistics. Within the Safety, Equity, and Design (SED) lab, Danne's research focused on the impacts of obstetric unit closures in New York. Using skills in coding, data scraping, and statistical analysis, over the summer she analysed the socio-economic impact and effects on community health access caused by these closures. Additionally, she worked on developing models to predict future closures.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Elena is a 2nd year Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. This past summer in the SED lab, she contributed to the Patient Journey Mapping project through testing study infrastructure, screening participants, and supporting data management and analysis. Furthermore, she prepared an abstract for Undergraduate Engineering Research Day (UnERD) at the University and a conference submission for the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare.
Celeste Moriana
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Celeste is a 3rd year Industrial Engineering Student at the University of Toronto (U of T). Throughout the 2024-25 summer, she contributed to SED Lab, focusing on the Patient Journey Mapping Project. Her responsibilities included creating patient journey maps and conducting data analysis. Additionally, Celeste assisted in the preparation of an abstract for the UnERD Conference at U of T, in addition to a conference submission for the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Allan Zhou is a second year Engineering Science student pursuing the Electrical and Computer Engineering specialization. Within the Safety, Equity, and Design (SED) lab, Allan investigated the efficacy of a custom feedback device in supporting Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). Using his skills in conducting experiments, statistical data analysis, and data visualization, Allan presented his research at the Undergraduate Engineering Research Day (UnERD) as part of his First-Year Summer Research Fellowship.
Alicia Kho
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Alicia Kho is a third year Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. In the Safety, Equity, and Design (SED) lab, her research centered on developing, testing, and collecting data through surveys to create a comprehensive toolkit aimed at combating racism towards BIPOC in the healthcare system. Her responsibilities encompassed conducting descriptive analysis of survey data, aiding in the coding of qualitative data, and offering graphic design support for the toolkit's development.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Haeli Reynolds is a 2nd year Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity, and Design (SED) lab, Haeli's research focused on survey development, testing, and data collection for the Anti-racism in Reproductive Care project. Her responsibilities included conducting descriptive analysis of the survey data, assisting with coding qualitative data and providing graphic design support for the toolkit development.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Max Bao is a 4th year Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity, and Design (SED) lab, Max’s research focused on developing and testing a dashboard using historical maternal health data. She created prototypes in visualization tools, represented the findings of the statistical and qualitative data analysis, and conducted usability testing and iterative refinement.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Audrey Tian is a 3rd year Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity, and Design (SED) lab, Audrey’s research focused on developing and refining a maternal equity dashboard. Audrey assisted in integrating automation processes and predictive analytics to enhance dashboard functionalities. She also conducted usability tests and refined data visualizations.
Abdulaziz AlTelmissani
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Abdulaziz AlTelmissani is a 4th year Medical Laboratory Sciences student at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. Within the Safety, Equity, and Design (SED) lab, Abdulaziz’s research focused on developing and refining a maternal equity dashboard. He helped develop prototypes using visualization tools, presented findings from statistical and qualitative data analyses, conducted usability tests, and made iterative improvements.  
Nigel Ma
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Nigel Ma is a 3rd year Engineering Science student at the University of Toronto. This summer his research focused on refining a maternal health equity dashboard developed last year, specifically automating the data cleaning and linking processes and incorporating additional features. He also conducted usability testing of the dashboard.
Previous Years
Soyun Oh
Research Assistant
Soyun is a MSc student in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. Before her master's program, she completed her two bachelor’s degrees at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and The Cyber University of Korea and worked in UX research/design for a year. Soyun is interested in the intersection of Healthcare, Human Factors, & Universal Design. She worked on the ‘interpreter Utilization Project’ at St. Michael Hospital to enhance care quality and health outcomes of patients with limited English proficiency. Her ultimate research goal was to serve an underserved population both in healthcare and Information Technology like older adults and patients with limited English proficiency.
Jingjing (Isabel) Zhan
Research Assistant
Isabel graduated with her MEng in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto in December 2022. She received her BSc degree in computer sciences, statistics, and mathematics from the University of Toronto (2021). The purpose of her MEng project was to survey remote patient monitoring projects and evaluate their effectiveness in improving quality of care and increasing healthcare capacity and accessibility.
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Tochi Oramasionwu graduated with his MEng in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto in November 2022. He received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Exeter in England in 2019. Tochi worked on a project to investigate CPR performance by examining resuscitation teams’ use of real-time feedback from a defibrillator, and understanding how these responses are shaped by characteristics of the work system.
Izhaan Junaid
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Izhaan is a third year Industrial Engineering Student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity and Design (SED) Lab, Izhaan’s research focused on compiling healthcare checklists and literature on effective checklist designs, as well as refining an algorithm to assist healthcare teams in determining which checklists to utilize. He also assisted in the systematic review of literature regarding computer-aided detection of retained foreign objects, or RFOs, for the purpose of improving their overall detection rate.
LinQiao Zhang
Undergraduate Research Assistant
LinQiao is a third year Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity, and Design (SED) lab, LinQiao’s research focused on the Retained Foreign Objects (RFO) Project, aiming to enhance patient safety through refining the Borealis database and assisting with systematic reviews on computer-aided detection of RFOs. Additionally, LinQiao supported the Patient Journey Mapping (PJM) Project, addressing latent threats in maternal care and identifying practices to enhance safety, equity, and patient-centred care.
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Sam is a graduate of Emory University in the United States. He is passionate about leveraging human factors and system design to improve patient outcomes and support public health endeavors. Within the Safety, Equity, & Design (SED) lab, Sam supported work on maternal health outcomes through data compilation and analysis. At the same time, he provided guidance for undergraduate teams working on improving detection of RFOs and the incorporation of VR tools to aid in patient education and consent processes.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Anna is an Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity, & Design (SED) lab, Anna’s research focus was on investigating system safety and disparities in maternity healthcare through the examination of patient safety incident reports. She was involved in the analysis of remote patient monitoring programs with Women’s College Hospital, as well as investigating intervention techniques for the prevention of retained foreign objects during surgery.
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Undergraduate Research Assistant
Sasha is an Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. She is passionate about human factors and engineering design. Within the Safety, Equity, & Design (SED) lab, her research focused on improving the accuracy of intraoperative radiology reads involving the detection of retained foreign objects (RFOs). She was involved in developing an open and accessible library of RFO radiographs and testing multiple priming processes to support intraoperative reads.
Fiona Sun
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Fiona Sun is a 3rd year Industrial Engineering student at University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity, and Design (SED) lab, Fiona’s research focused on developing and testing a visual feedback mechanism to monitor system equity in maternal health. She developed a prototype that visually represented the findings of the statistical and qualitative data analysis related with maternal health data, and carried out related usability testing.
Bella Yang
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Bella Yang, a third-year Computer Engineering student specializing in Software Development and Artificial Intelligence, participated in a research term at the SED lab. As part of her research, Bella joined the team working on the application of Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) in medical settings. Her project involved developing an advanced and revolutionary process that utilizes AR/VR technology to enhance the patient consent process.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Michelle Lai is an Industrial Engineering undergrad at the University of Toronto specializing in Human Factors, with a passion for user experience design. Within the SED Lab, Michelle’s research focus was on identifying and comparing extended reality (XR) tools that have the potential to enhance the quality of informed consent process in healthcare. Her findings were synthesized in a narrative review, and led to a pilot study.
Zeina Shaltout
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Zeina Shaltout is a 3rd year Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity, and Design (SED) lab, Zeina's research focused on exploring the potential of extended reality (AR/VR) to enhance patient education and consent processes in healthcare. She led a student project to develop a VR demo and study XR tools' efficacy, aiming to revolutionize patient understanding of surgical procedures.
Max Bao
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Max Bao is an Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity, and Design (SED) lab, Max’s research focused on developing and testing a dashboard using historical maternal health data. She created a prototype in visualization tools, represented the findings of the statistical and qualitative data analysis, conducted usability testing and iterative refinement.
Francesca Fortino
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Francesca is a 2nd year Mechanical Engineering Student at the University of Toronto, interested in the Biomedical Engineering field. Within the Safety, Equity and Design (SED) lab she worked on the CPR project to conduct testing and ultimately complete a pilot study to determine the efficacy of tactile feedback devices in improving Bystander CPR quality.
Halle Teh
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Halle Teh is a 2nd year Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity and Design (SED) lab, Halle's research concentrated on utilizing extended reality (AR/VR) to enhance the informed consent process in healthcare. This aims to allow patients to understand their treatment options, such as surgical procedures, better through immersive learning.
Yasmeen Smadi
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Yasmeen is a third year Industrial Engineering Student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity, and Design (SED) lab, Yasmeen’s research focus was on examining hospital command and control centers. She evaluated their effectiveness, the investment costs involved, and the range of operations monitored to help better support the design of these centers.
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Layla Atallah
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Layla is a 2nd year Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity, and Design (SED) lab, Layla’s research focused on data analysis in understanding experiences of pregnant and postpartum women in the healthcare system within the Maternal Health and Disparities project. Secondarily, Layla supported the Extended Reality project.
Ayouni Khan
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Ayouni Khan is a 4th-year Molecular Genetics and Physiology student at the University of Toronto. Her research centered on the development of a proof-of-concept interface design that examines the viability of employing artificial intelligence to categorize patient safety events within reporting systems, with the aim to enhance risk management and optimize patient care.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Andrea is an Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity, & Design (SED) lab, Andrea’s research focus was on analyzing remote patient monitoring programs with Women’s College Hospital. She was involved in the operational project of analyzing workflows for the use of asynchronous messaging with patients.
Jasmine Zhan
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Jasmine is a second year industrial engineering student who is interested in the intersection between healthcare and technology. Her research within the Safety, Equity and Design (SED) Lab focused on examining the effectiveness of checklist designs in different settings, and determining how healthcare workers can select the most practical design.
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Undergraduate Research Assistant
Ruoqing (Russell) is an Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity, & Design (SED) lab, Ruoqing's (Russell) research focus was on investigating methodologies to mitigate and manage the risk of retained foreign objects (RFOs) in clinical surgeries with the aim to improve patient safety.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Andreas is an Engineering Science student at the University of Toronto interested in electrical and robotics engineering. Andreas investigated multimodal CPR feedback with the aim of designing and testing a CPR device with tactile feedback. He also participated in the development of a machine learning model for assisting in the detection of retained foreign objects.
Joey Lu
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Joey Lu is a 3rd year Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity, and Design (SED) lab, Joey’s research focused on exploring the potential of extended reality (AR/VR) to enhance patient education and consent processes in healthcare. He helped the team find the best alternative tool and the most suitable VR headset for the research.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Wei Fung is a Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Toronto. His research within the SED lab focused on investigating the use of multi-modal feedback on the CPR quality. He and his team built a CPR device and tested the effectiveness of the tactile feedback in supporting CPR quality.
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Undergraduate Research Assistant
Vimonsiri Wongapisumpo (Skye) is an industrial engineering student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity, and Design (SED) lab, Skye’s research focus was on exploring the various types of checklists for medical use and analyzing whether the checklists are suitable for practical use or not.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Milka is a Mechanical Engineering student at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, USA. Within the Safety, Equity, and Design (SED) Lab, Milka’s research focus was on enhancing the accuracy of intraoperative radiography to identify retained foreign objects (RFO).
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Alex is a Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Toronto who worked on the CPR project with Professor Myrtede Alfred. His eventual goal is to become a researcher in the biomedical field, but he is also interested in Mechatronics and Robotics.
Nicole Scala
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Nicole is a second year Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity and Design (SED) lab, Nicole's research focused on the effectiveness of command and control centres within hospitals.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Lisa is a Computer Engineering student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity, & Design (SED) lab, Lisa’s research focus was on studying and collating adequate medical checklists used by practitioners.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Esosa is an Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. Within the Safety, Equity, & Design (SED) lab, she investigated racial and ethnic disparities in maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in Canada.
