Fauzan is an honors computer science and cognitive science students in the Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences. He grew up attending his dad’s cricket matches, watching the Pakistan National Cricket Team, and playing cricket from a young age – cricket is a huge part of Fauzan’s identity. He founded the Rutgers Cricket Club in Fall 2022 (since the previous club disbanded) and will be serving as its President until Spring 2024.
Outside of cricket, Fauzan is a member of the Rutgers Board of Trustees, one of the two governing bodies at Rutgers, and an undergraduate researcher. His research interests include eliminating health disparities in medicine, vaccine hesitancy, and animal tracking with the use of artificial intelligence. Fauzan’s research in racial health disparities led him to create BabySafe Health, an application that utilizes machine-learning algorithms to analyze past infant mortality data to provide mothers with insight into their pregnancy’s potential health consequences, with three other Rutgers students.
Publications
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Justice Heath: A Comprehensive Examination of Correctional Facility Issues and Recommendations for Improved Health Outcomes, Fauzan Amjad, Shelise Cadet, Rina Badge, Nora Abdelfattah, Aniyah Muldrow, Yilmarie Torres, July 2022
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Preventing Sleep Deprivation in Correctional Facilities: The State of Current Knowledge and Recommendations, Fauzan Amjad, July 2022
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Implementation of the NSF I-Corps Entrepreneurship Training Approach to Decrease Racial Health Disparities in New Jersey via the Creation of a Maternal Healthcare Application, Fauzan Amjad, June 2022
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Awards & Distinctions
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Outstanding Abstract Submission | New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science
Received a certificate of recognition for an outstanding abstract submission for the poster session at the Community Engaged Scholarship Symposium: Best Practices to Achieve Health Equity (held on June 14, 2022)
- Semi-Finalist | Amazon Web Services US University Start-Up Competition
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Winner | $25,000 TechUnited: Better Wellness Challenge
Pitched my company BabySafe Health at the 2021 Propelify Innovation Festival in front of executives from RWJBarnabas Health, Colgate-Palmolive, and Labcorp and was awarded $25,000 as the winner of TechUnited: Better Wellness Challenge
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Winner | Johnson and Johnson & AWS Black Tech Health Hackathon
Developed a machine learning predictive analysis model with AWS Sagemaker and AWS Quicksight that analyzed 144,000 rows and 50 columns of CDC data to predict with 91% accuracy the leading cause of infant death. Collaborated with three other Rutgers University students to address the health disparity concerns raised by the model between black and white communities through implementation of machine learning algorithms in imaging diagnosis and hospital resources allocation to facilitate a more engaging doctor-patient relationship driven by data science.