Félix Morales, M.S.
Research Specialist
Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Northwestern University
Role: Félix Morales is primarily responsible for software development efforts related to cloud deployment, continuous integration, infrastructure scaling, and workflow management of containerized services, with assistance from Spencer Hong. He also assists in architecting the micro-services infrastructure of the BP/SD platform, and helps in the design and maintainenance the project website.
Bio: Félix Morales is a Research Specialist at the Amaral Lab and he mainly works on improving automated diagnosis of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) using machine learning on radiologist reports, with the aim of assessing clinician recognition of ARDS. He aims to implement this approach in a real clinical context, while using it to explore patterns of ARDS underrecognition on multiple ICU sites across the US.