15+ years in AI, neuroscience, biotech, and longevity. Currently founder and principal at Saturna Tech.
> about
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 product verticals in the space of longevity. 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.
> experience
- Founder & Principal at Saturna Tech (current)
- CTO at Blueprint Bryan Johnson (2024-2025)
- Staff ML Engineer at ArteraAI & PathAI (2022-2024)
- Research Assistant Professor at INI, Keck School of Medicine of USC (2021-2022)
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Imaging Scientist (2021-2022)
- Creator and Lead Developer of the Quantitative Imaging Toolkit
- Computer Science PhD from Brown University
- Engineering & Applied Science BSc from Caltech
> expertise
technical-leadership
Engineering management experience building teams, setting technical strategy, guiding product development, and aligning engineering with business objectives.
research-product-pipeline
Translating research into commercial products and applications. Experience building consumer apps, software services, and navigating regulatory requirements.
system-design-devops
Architecting scalable cloud distributed systems on AWS with databases, message queues, caching layers, IaC, etc. Experience with high-traffic web and mobile apps.
machine-learning-ai
Expertise in computer vision, biomedical AI, and LLMs. Experience from research prototypes to production systems at scale, including MLOps and model deployment.
data-science
End-to-end work including engineering pipelines, warehouses, advanced statistical modeling, and visualization / dashboards for decision making.
mri-technology
Neuroimaging expertise spanning image acquisition, analysis workflows, and visualization. Deep knowledge of computational methods for diffusion MRI.
digital-pathology
Skilled in building digital pathology workflows for cancer and neuroscience, using self-supervised learning and addressing inter-scanner variability.
neuroscience
Neuroimaging research across brain disorders including dementia, stroke, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, as well as brain aging and development.
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Research visualizations and computational methods from my published work



















> contact
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