Experience

Althea Health

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder & CEO

  • Dec 2022 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area Althea is creating an unparalleled virtual AI assistant for healthcare that turbocharges the healthcare workforce and transforms the patient experience by leveraging proprietary human-like conversational AI and large language models.



Hyperfine

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Director of Brain Sensing

  • Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

  San Francisco Bay Area Hyperfine (NASDAQ: HYPR) is the groundbreaking MedTech company that created Swoop, the world's first FDA-cleared portable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system capable of providing neuroimaging at the point of care.



Liminal Sciences, Inc.

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Jul 2020 - Nov 2022

  San Francisco Bay Area Co-founding member. Liminal developed the first non-invasive AI-powered device for monitoring blood flow and pressure in the brain. Liminal's mission was to make brain monitoring as ubiquitous as monitoring heart. Liminal later was merged with Hyperfine, the creator of the first portable MRI, during a SPAC IPO (NASDAQ: HYPR). - As part of the executive team, developed and implemented short and long-term technology and product roadmaps and strategies needed to enable company… Show more Co-founding member. Liminal developed the first non-invasive AI-powered device for monitoring blood flow and pressure in the brain. Liminal's mission was to make brain monitoring as ubiquitous as monitoring heart. Liminal later was merged with Hyperfine, the creator of the first portable MRI, during a SPAC IPO (NASDAQ: HYPR). - As part of the executive team, developed and implemented short and long-term technology and product roadmaps and strategies needed to enable company success. - Inventor and technical architect of the world’s first AEG (acousto-encephalography) technology, a novel way for monitoring brain pressure and blood non-invasively. - Multiple core inventions about various technologies for brain sensing, neuromodulation, and Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI), with over several patent applications. - Built an in-house engineering organization by hiring and developing best-in-class technical talent. - Led across the R&D disciplines including device software, cloud software, Machine Learning, data analytics, and electrical engineering, and transducer engineering.

• Head Of Research

  • May 2019 - Jul 2020

  San Francisco Bay Area



Stanford University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Staff Research Engineer

  • Jun 2016 - May 2019

  Stanford, CA - Conducted transformative research on novel sensing and therapy medical device and underlying technologies including device, transducer, physics, design, electronics, brain monitoring and therapy, and guided intervention, leading to numerous publications in accredited scientific journals. - Multiple inventions and IPs covering impactful innovations in MedTech and consumer space. - Co-PI/contributor to successful research grants from government agencies and private sector… Show more - Conducted transformative research on novel sensing and therapy medical device and underlying technologies including device, transducer, physics, design, electronics, brain monitoring and therapy, and guided intervention, leading to numerous publications in accredited scientific journals. - Multiple inventions and IPs covering impactful innovations in MedTech and consumer space. - Co-PI/contributor to successful research grants from government agencies and private sector including NIH, NSF, DARPA, ARPA-E, Intel, Fluenta Inc., 4Catalyzer and Butterfly Network. - Lead multiple projects with breakthrough discoveries: Pattern Interference Radiation Force (PIRF) for ultrasonic neuromodulation, guided-wave transducer device for efficient transcranial ultrasound delivery, machine learning for near-field localization in chaotic cavities, biophysical mechanisms of ultrasound-mediated neuromodulation, acoustic microscope for in-situ characterization of skull, acoustic printer for rapid screening of bacterial infections, wide- bandwidth squeeze-film CMUTs for airborne applications, machine Learning for ultrasonic flow-metering systems, to name a few.

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2011 - Jun 2016

  Stanford, CA Conducted cutting edge research on novel device technologies and algorithms for diverse applications in medical and sensing applications, which led to several publications, patents, and external licensing. - Developed the first Lamb wave multi-touch ultrasonic touchscreen, enabling a novel cost-effective and power-efficient way to build touchscreens. - Developed novel physics-based Machine Learning models and adjoint method for localizing objects in reverberant and chaotic… Show more Conducted cutting edge research on novel device technologies and algorithms for diverse applications in medical and sensing applications, which led to several publications, patents, and external licensing. - Developed the first Lamb wave multi-touch ultrasonic touchscreen, enabling a novel cost-effective and power-efficient way to build touchscreens. - Developed novel physics-based Machine Learning models and adjoint method for localizing objects in reverberant and chaotic ultrasonic/acoustic environments. - Conducted research on cutting edge piezoelectric and capacitive (CMUT) transducers for therapeutic and imaging applications using ultrasound. - Developed several computing techniques for modeling wave propagation and heat distribution in complex media such as biological tissue.



UCL

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2010 - Sep 2011

  Developed computing techniques for modeling photoacoustic imaging of brain tumors, diffusion of opti- cal energy in the brain, wave propagation in the skull bone and the brain, dynamics of microbubbles as photoacoustic. This research led to multiple publications and inventions.