Christopher Knaplund, MPhil is a Research Coordinator at Columbia University working under Kenrick Cato and Sarah Rossetti, where they are developing a system to communicate nursing concerns to clinicians. Mr. Knaplund received an MPhil from the CUNY Graduate Center where he studied Quickest Detection and Stochastic Analysis. His education is as a pure mathematician, but currently he is interested in applying signal detection and classification to Electronic Health Record data. While Mr. Knaplund is not working, he enjoys being outside, hiking and carpentry.