Dr. Aalami is a Clinical Professor of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery at Stanford University and the Palo Alto VA and serves as the Director for Digital Health at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. He is the course director for Biodesign for Digital Health, Building for Digital Health, and co-founder of the open-source CardinalKit and Spezi projects to support sensor-based mobile research projects. His primary research focuses on clinically validating the sensors in smartphones and smartwatches in patients with cardiovascular disease and translating digital health solutions.