Projects

Basil Health - clinical reporting for DEXA scans

Turns DEXA body-composition scans into personalized clinical reports and a longitudinal patient record. In production at three paying clinics; 300 patients processed.

Daycase - charting for same-day surgery

Scheduling, role-based patient charts, and case close-out for an outpatient surgical practice moving off its current charting system. 29 clinical forms, about 500 questions.

LASTguard - anesthetic-safety decision support

Answers ‘how much more local anesthetic can this patient safely receive?’ Prototype with demo protocols - not clinician-reviewed.

City of Houston - wastewater analytics

Embedded with the city’s wastewater utility on its federal consent decree program. 40 operational and compliance dashboards rebuilt in five months, off vendor-locked Power BI.

DatArdurra - AI document search for engineering teams

Ten access-controlled RAG deployments on Azure OpenAI for Ardurra departments and clients, so teams can ask questions of their regulatory and technical documents.

Stormwater trash interceptor - IoT fill monitoring (patent pending)

A load-cell system that tells a crew when a stormwater trash interceptor is actually full, by correlating net drag against stream flow.

Adaptive traffic signals - GPS probes instead of loop detectors

One thesis - vehicle GPS can replace buried loop detectors - matured through four implementations, ending on a Raspberry Pi intersection running Webster’s formula.

Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DEXA): Principles, Clinical Applications, and Relevance to Minimally Invasive Surgery

Forthcoming in Laparoscopic, Endoscopic and Robotic Surgery, 2nd ed., 2027

First-author book chapter on how DEXA measures body composition, its clinical applications, and its relevance to minimally invasive and bariatric surgery.

Common Complications after Bariatric Surgery

Forthcoming in Laparoscopic, Endoscopic and Robotic Surgery, 2nd ed., 2027

Second-author book chapter (Chapter 101, Section V: Bariatrics and Metabolic Surgery), revised for the new edition, including new material on DEXA body composition in bariatric follow-up.

From DEXA Data to Patient Action: AI-Assisted Body Composition Reporting in Bariatric Care

Presented at the 7th International Bariatric Club World Congress, University of Oxford, 2026

First-author study of AI-assisted DEXA body-composition reporting in bariatric care, over a retrospective dataset of 9,091 scans from 2,709 patients at an independent practice.

Recommended citation: Sharma, P. "From DEXA Data to Patient Action: AI-Assisted Body Composition Reporting in Bariatric Care." Presented at the 7th International Bariatric Club World Congress, University of Oxford, September 2026. Abstract to appear in a British Journal of Surgery congress supplement.

RAGs in Data Pipelines Advance Water Industry Knowledge Consumption

Presented at the APWAOK & OWEA Technical Conference, 2025

Talk on applying retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to water and public works: secure, source-grounded access to engineering, regulatory, and operational knowledge.

Recommended citation: Sharma, P., et al. "RAGs in Data Pipelines Advance Water Industry Knowledge Consumption." Presented at the APWAOK & OWEA Technical Conference, May 2025.