Publications
Here is a friendly list of the papers I have contributed to. If any of them look relevant to your work, please feel free to email me — I am always glad to discuss the methods, share data where I can, or just compare notes.
Conference Papers
Published in IEEE QCNC, 2025
In plain English: Plain-language summary (draft — please review). When several quantum computers try to agree on a single answer, a few faulty or malicious machines can in principle derail the whole group — the classical ‘Byzantine Generals’ problem, but quantum. We layered two off-the-shelf noise-fighting tricks (readout error mitigation and dynamical decoupling) on top of an existing quantum-agreement protocol and ran it on real IBM hardware. The combination noticeably improves how often the honest machines reach the right consensus, even on today’s noisy devices.
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Journal Articles
Published in Gynecologic Oncology, 2024
In plain English: Plain-language summary (draft — please review). Uterine cancer rates in the U.S. are rising, and not equally across groups. Using 28 years of registry data and an information-theory tool, we separated the trend into the contributions of age, calendar year, and birth-cohort. Age dominates, but a meaningful share comes from the birth cohort you happen to belong to — which points to long-acting risk factors changing across generations.
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Published in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2024
In plain English: Plain-language summary (draft — please review). When younger women have their ovaries surgically removed, clinical guidelines say they should usually take estrogen replacement therapy until natural-menopause age. Many do not. We modelled the downstream consequences over 25 years and found this gap is associated with hundreds of avoidable cases of heart disease, stroke, and breast-cancer death — far more harm than the relatively small reduction in colorectal cancer.
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Published in Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2024
In plain English: Plain-language summary (draft — please review). Minimally invasive hysterectomy is gentler than open abdominal surgery — shorter recovery, fewer complications. Looking at almost 260,000 New York patients over 18 years, we found Black women, and women treated at hospitals serving a higher share of Black patients, were significantly less likely to receive the minimally invasive option. The gap is real, persistent, and getting wider.
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Published in Nature Scientific Reports, 2023
In plain English: Plain-language summary (draft — please review). Pancreatic cancer is usually caught too late — the 5-year survival rate is only 3%. We built a ‘what if?’ simulator that asks: how much earlier would we need to detect it for screening to actually save lives? The answer is a sweet spot of about 4–6 years before symptoms appear; pushing detection earlier than that gives diminishing returns, especially for fast-growing tumors.
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Published in Gynecologic Oncology, 2023
In plain English: Plain-language summary (draft — please review). Endometrial (uterine-lining) cancer comes in several genetic flavors, and one of them — POLE-mutated — has a much better outlook than the others. We modelled whether testing for that mutation, then sparing those patients from extra radiation, is worth the extra lab cost. It turns out it is: the test pays for itself by avoiding unnecessary treatment.
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Published in AVS Quantum Science, 2023
In plain English: Plain-language summary (draft — please review). Two clouds of cold atoms can be made to share quantum-mechanical correlations (entanglement) by gently ‘measuring’ them with light without destroying the state. We worked out, with pen-and-paper math and Mathematica, how much of that entanglement survives the unavoidable noise from stray photons and atomic jitter — and showed the entanglement is robust enough that the technique remains one of the most promising recipes for entangling matter.
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Published in JAMA Network Open, 2023
In plain English: Plain-language summary (draft — please review). Colorectal cancer screening saves lives, but only if people actually do it. We compared a new blood-based ‘liquid biopsy’ screen against the standard colonoscopy and stool tests. Even though the blood test would get more people screened, at today’s price the older colonoscopy still gives more years of life per dollar — so liquid biopsy isn’t yet cost-effective on its own.
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