15+ years in AI, informatics, neuro, and biotech. Currently founder and principal at Saturna Tech.

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My work brings together scientific research, engineering execution, and technical leadership to address challenges in AI, neuroscience, and biotech. My perspective is that we are living at an inflection point where rapid advances in these fields are creating significant opportunities both to expand our scientific understanding and to employ technology to meet human health needs. My personal mission is to accelerate progress on both fronts, advancing scientific knowledge while translating the latest research into practical solutions that benefit people's health and well-being.

My career spans academia, medical research institutes, startups, and scale-ups. At Blueprint, I owned technical strategy, built an engineering team, and led their work across four consumer product verticals for health optimization. At ArteraAI and PathAI, I developed diagnostic and prognostic clinical tools for cancer patients using the latest techniques in machine learning and AI for digital pathology. Prior to that, I spent five years at the Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, conducting research, developing computational neuroimaging tools, and supporting the research community through teaching, mentoring, and events. At Saturna Tech, I'm currently providing consulting services to early stage startups and labs, and pursing independent research and product development.

I care deeply about making my work widely accessible. I actively contribute to science, having published 70+ papers in biomedical imaging, neuroscience, and machine learning (h-index: 29). I write open source software, and my Quantitative Imaging Toolkit has been used by researchers worldwide for over a decade. My work has been recognized by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, from whom I received their Imaging Scientist award to support my academic research.