During her PhD, Sandya investigated the process of unconscious pain in patients under general anesthesia by tracking autonomic nervous system responses using statistical modeling and machine learning.
As a Schmidt Science Fellow, Sandya is working with Professor Todd Coleman and Professor Sean Mackey to build an ambulatory physiological monitoring system for the autonomic nervous system to test in chronic migraine patients.
Sandya hopes the development of these technologies will help guide a new era of digital health in which clinicians have access to data and insights gathered at home, with the help of technology, to personalize therapeutic and management strategies for each patient.