In the press

Shipped, and written about.

Research is one kind of proof. A product a distributor can put on a wall in another country is another. These are announcements about devices I helped build — and what, specifically, was mine.

Two team members from Cannabix Technologies, including Babak Ghorbani, examining the BreathLogix Industrial Series alcohol screening device

Image: Cannabix Technologies Inc.

April 30, 2024/GlobeNewswire

Cannabix Technologies to Deliver Breath Logix Alcohol Screening Device to Australia

Cannabix began distribution discussions with Breathalyser Sales & Service Pty Ltd. of Sydney — Australia's oldest distributor of drug and alcohol testing equipment — and shipped the weather-resistant BreathLogix Industrial Series for evaluation across mining, oil and gas, trucking and industrial sectors. The partnership later became an exclusive distribution agreement covering Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

My role

Their managing director singled out "ease of use and unique cartridge technology." Both sit on top of work I owned: the on-device interface for running a test and reading a result, and the ML-based sensor drift correction that made a pre-calibrated cartridge viable in the first place — the same work that extended device lifespan by roughly 50%. Getting a model to hold its accuracy through Australian mine-site heat and humidity is a different problem from getting it to work on a bench, and that gap was mine to close.

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Product comparison of the BreathLogix Workplace Series and Industrial Series alcohol breathalyzers, showing dimensions and design features

Image: Cannabix Technologies Inc. / GlobeNewswire

May 7, 2024/GlobeNewswire

Cannabix Technologies Launches New Compact Breath Logix Workplace Series and Prepares for Delivery to South Africa

Cannabix launched the BreathLogix Workplace Series — a compact, autonomous wall-mounted alcohol screening unit for indoor facilities — and opened distribution discussions with Run Rite Electronics of Durban, South Africa. The device runs pre-access, random and post-incident testing, captures an identity photo, reports blood alcohol content, and pushes real-time alerts by text, email and web portal.

My role

The Workplace Series is the compact sibling of the Industrial unit, built on the same detection stack. The parts that were mine: the classification and regression models that turn a raw breath signal into a defensible BAC reading, and the drift-correction layer that keeps those models honest as the sensor ages — the work behind the pre-calibrated cartridge design and its low-maintenance claim. The web portal the alerts land in is one I architected from an empty repository on AWS.

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