Professional
Industry Experience
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Ghamut Corporation-
Founding Partner2016 – Present
I founded Ghamut in 2016 with Tuka Alhanai. A year later it won MassChallenge Boston, a distinction awarded to the top 1.5% of competitors. Ghamut helps organizations identify where AI delivers the most value and then leads the technical execution, from strategy through to deployment. Clients have included Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Biogen, Bayer, Allstate, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, among others. For the work and the team, see ghamut.com.
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S&P Global-
Associate Director, Data Science2018 – 2019
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The Boston Consulting Group-
Associate2011 – 2012
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For earlier roles, see my CV.
Boards and Advisory Roles
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ChristianaCare-
Board Committee Member2026 – Present
ChristianaCare is Delaware's largest health system: three hospitals, about 1,400 beds, more than 13,000 employees, and a Level I trauma center. The committee holds board-level responsibility for cybersecurity risk, information governance, operational resilience, and technology strategy across the system.
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Abundant Venture Partners-
Expert Network2024 – Present
Abundant builds and scales companies for health systems. Founded in 2011, it is backed by an alliance of 17 healthcare provider organizations that together direct more than $80 billion in purchasing, and it has founded 19 companies and made 36 investments. The Expert Network is a by-invitation group of industry specialists who advise the studio and its companies.
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BTG-
Talent Advisory Council2020 – Present
BTG is the on-demand talent marketplace that places independent consultants and executives with Fortune 1000 companies. Heidrick & Struggles, the global executive search firm, acquired it in 2021. The Talent Advisory Council is a small group of BTG's most trusted talent, invited to advise the firm on how it serves clients and consultants.
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Patents
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Thromboxane-A Synthase: Potential Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agent for Metastatic Cancers and Cardiac Atherosclerosis2025
Using causal inference on plasma samples, we identified TXAS as a blood-based biomarker and therapeutic target for metastatic prostate cancer and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
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Training and Use of Bayesian Networks and Language Models for Agribusiness Delinquency Risk Assessment2025
Bayesian networks trained on feature dependencies, combined with language models, to assess delinquency risk in agricultural lending.
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Method and Device for the Passive Recording of the Electrocardiogram while Working at a Desk2024
ECG sensors embedded in a desk, chair, keyboard, mouse, and floor mat passively estimate the user's electrocardiogram while they work.
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Adjustable Solar Cell Network2012
A controllable voltage and current module that captures up to 20% more photovoltaic energy.
In the Media
Coverage on our work applying AI to human signals32 articles
- Detecting depression from how someone speaks in an interview
- A wearable that reads the emotional tone of a conversation as it happens
- A mobile game you play with your heartbeat
Coverage on our work on AI's impact in the clinic14 articles
- Doctors' gut feelings about a patient predict the tests they order
- Nanoparticles and AI that find rare disease biomarkers in blood
- Decision support for cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy
Coverage on our work on whether AI can be trusted, and my testimony before Congress11 articles
- A test that tells when a large language model is likely to be wrong
- Testimony to the U.S. House on using AI to improve health care
- Frontier AI models fall short in languages other than English
Coverage on our work connecting people, and on building Ghamut15 articles
- Connect, the algorithm that arranges lunch with a stranger
- Ghamut named a winner of MassChallenge Boston
- Podcast conversations on turning AI into business results
Coverage on my efforts to explain AI to the public8 articles
- Three WKAR public-television specials on AI in education, elections, and art
- How Michigan's students and universities are handling AI
Coverage on my early scholarships and national service3 articles
- A Gates Cambridge Scholarship for the M.Phil. at Cambridge
- Selected as one of nine NIH DATA National Service Scholars