Himal is a doctoral student at the USC Keck School of Medicine in the Epidemiology program within the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences. His research interests include health disparities, record linkage, and machine learning methods. Before his doctoral program, Himal was a Research Programmer in the Suzanne-Dworak Peck School of Social Work where he worked end to end with the research team, contributing to data preparation, analyses, and modeling. Himal’s past experience includes performing statistical analyses and building data visualizations in online advertising, IT consulting, and digital health startups. Himal received his BS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California and his Master’s in Data Science from the University of California, Berkeley.