Data · Analytics · Healthcare
Amir
Abdur-Rahim
Turning clinical data into decisions — Chicago.
Healthcare data analyst with 2+ years of Epic EHR experience — building clinical ML, BI, and documentation tools. MS in MIS at UIC, graduating Fall ’26.
fig. 00 · Chicago — 41.88° N
Professional Experience
fig. 01 · aug 2021 — sep 2023 · Epic EHR
Chief Medical Scribe
ScribeAmerica — Advocate Christ & Condell Medical Centers
Aug 2021 – Sep 2023
- Supported 6+ hospitalists with real-time EHR documentation using Epic, capturing patient encounters, progress notes, and discharge summaries in high-volume clinical settings.
- Contributed to AI-assisted documentation pilot, helping achieve a 20% productivity improvement. Trained new scribes on Epic workflows and SOAP documentation standards.
Things I've Built
fig. 02 · n = 8 builds · clinical ML to iOS
Theli
Coming soon — App StorePrivacy-first iOS Nutrition Scanner — independent product
Barcode lookup + on-device label OCR, Apple Health sync. No accounts, no ads, no tracking.
Parkinson's Voice Screening
Clinical ML from Acoustic Features
Graduate coursework · UIC MS MIS
Binary classification of Parkinson's patients vs healthy controls from sustained vowel recordings (n=81). Extracted 167 acoustic features (MFCCs, jitter/shimmer, spectral contrast) across 4 classifier families; LR odds ratios, Hosmer-Lemeshow calibration, and Youden's J threshold optimization for clinical interpretability.
WIEIAD Risk Scoring
Multimodal ED-Signal & Diet-Quality Pipeline
Graduate coursework · UIC MS MIS
Multimodal analysis of 1,100+ 'What I Eat in a Day' TikToks — Whisper, OCR, and CLIP features with LLM rubric scoring across MyPlate nutrition and five ED risk signals; a mainstream vs. coded-hashtag comparison found 2× signal prevalence. Final iteration: Gemini whole-video analysis of 467 video-days against HEI-2020.
DocDefend+
Clinical Documentation QA Platform
Graduate coursework · UIC MS MIS
Full-stack app using Claude AI to validate whether clinical notes support billing codes before claim submission. Defensibility scoring, E/M recommendations, and financial impact analysis.
StudentPM
Project Management Application
Graduate coursework · UIC MS MIS
JavaFX desktop app with MVC architecture, SQLite integration, and user authentication.
LightERP
Enterprise Resource Planning System
Graduate coursework · UIC MS MIS
React MVP with Firebase Cloud Firestore and full UML documentation suite.
CTF & Security Labs
Capture the Flag & Cloud Security
SANS competition
Top 20 regionally in the SANS AWS Skills to Jobs CTF (7,498 pts). Network forensics, packet analysis, and AWS security labs covering KMS, VPC, S3, and IAM.
US Airline Flight Patterns
Tableau Data-Visualization Story
Coursework · IDS 405 · Full case study
A four-point Tableau story across two years of US flight records and 11 carriers: traffic over time (with a flagged data-completeness artifact), weekly flights by airline, and the distance-airtime relationship. Includes the live interactive viz.
Verified Credentials
fig. 03 · n = 12 credentials · 2 tracks
Data & Analytics
Cloud & Security
Technical Stack
fig. 04 · 5 categories · 33 skills
Education
fig. 05 · MS MIS ’26 · BA psychology ’20
Expected Fall 2026
Master of Science in Management Information Systems
University of Illinois Chicago
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
University of Illinois Chicago · May 2020
Learning in Public
fig. 06 · 10 explainers · 44 sections
Interactive ML explainers, built while studying for my data mining coursework.
Neural Networks
Neuron anatomy · XOR & depth · Activations · Backprop
7 sections · interactive03/PCA / Dimensionality Reduction
Covariance & eigenvectors · Scree plots · Standardization · PC scores
5 sections · interactive06/SHAP / Interpretability
Waterfall charts · Beeswarm plots · Global importance · Shapley math
4 sections · interactive