Work Experience
LightHearted AI Limited
Co-founder & CTO
(Apr 2023 - Present)

Co-founder & CTO
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Directing the tech team to develop a Digital Health Precision Cardiology Platform for early diagnosis at the community level
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Established collaboration with NHS St George's Hospital, British Heart Foundation, Heart Valve Voice, and Harley Street Clinic
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Product Development; Patent Derisking & Global filing
Entrepreneur First and SOSV HAX
Founder-in-Residence at LD20
(Apr 2022 - Present)


Founder-in-Residence
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Selected from 1000+ applicants to join EF’s program to find a co-founder and build a [DeepTech] company from scratch
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HAX is the world’s first and most active pre-seed program focused on hard tech startups. HAX helps founders tap into the world’s premier ecosystems for real-world product development, manufacturing and fundraising.
Numinous AI, Inc.
Co-founder & CTO
(May 2022 - Apr 2023)

Co-founder & CTO
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Directed the R&D team to develop a Neurobiomarker platform for predicting treatment response in neuropsychiatry
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Developed partnerships with European Biopharma, Imperial College London, Martijn Arns at Brainclinics, & Stephen Faraone
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Acquired access to and analyzed over 10,000 subject EEG data for normative & predictive modeling using Deep Conv-Transformers
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Developed & validated a foundational SOTA sex-prediction model (>79%) using multi- site & channel EEG
Columbia University | Taub Institute
ML & DS Research Consultant
(Oct 2021 - Mar 2022 )

ML & DS Research Engineer Consultant
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Developed an automated preprocessing and spike sorting workflow for curation of mice electrophysiology recordings
BrainSight AI, Inc.
Assistant Director of ML and DS
(Jun 2020 - Oct 2021)

Assistant Director of ML and DS
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Analyzing and extracting rs-fMRI whole-brain networks to compose Eloquent Cortex Mapping (ECM) for surgical planning
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Directing the R&D team to design and build an end-to-end neuroimaging pipeline for brain tumor analysis
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Building an automated end-to-end pipeline for multimodal neuroimaging analysis for presurgical planning
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Collated inputs from the product team and neurosurgeons to build efficient workflows to be used in clinical/research setting
BrainSight AI, Inc.
Lead ML Engineer
(Jun 2019 - May 2020)

Lead ML Engineer
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Analyzed rs-fMRI scans using DPABI, and designed & built interpretable ensemble ML models to classify within neuropsychiatric & neurodegenerative disorder
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Designed and Assembled an automated python-based rs-fMRI preprocessing pipeline for clinical research use
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Supervised a team of interns to build ML models to analyze sleep and motion pattern changes from smartphone data
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Scientific grant writing; Scientific research paper writing
Neuromatch Academy
Lead TA
(Jun 2021 - Jul 2023)

Lead Teaching Assistant
- Tasked with actively guiding 8-10 students on peer coding sessions at Neuromatch Academy, a virtual summer school for Computational Neuroscience and Deep Learning
- Provide technical expertise on Group projects and technical support for 7-8 other TAs
University of Alberta
Research Intern
(Apr 2021 - May 2021)

Research Intern
Working with Dr. Sunil V Kalmady on Mathematical modeling of Individualized Survival Distribution
AI Without Borders
ML Engineer
(Mar 2019 - Jun 2019)

ML Engineer
Built and optimized an automated system for delineating Invasive ductal carcinoma from histopathology slides using CNN models
Other Research Projects
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Spike Sorting Pipeline using SpikeInterface - Hussaini Lab (May 2021)
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Survival Analysis using Stage 4 Stomach Cancer Dataset - UofAlberta (April 2021)
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Personalized large-scale brain network modeling in Mild Alzheimer's Disease - Petra Ritter Course (Dec 2020 - Feb 2021)
Team Mates: Sudeshna bora -
Neuromatch (Kay dataset): How can we relate clustered fMRI BOLD signals to features of their corresponding stimulus images? (Nov 2020)
Team Mates: Anne Sofie Væver Jokumsen, Simone Tasciotti; TA: Sophie Laturnus; Project Mentor: Dr. Laura Lewis