Work Experience

LightHearted AI Limited

Co-founder & CTO

(Apr 2023 - Present)

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Co-founder & CTO

  • Directing the tech team to develop a Digital Health Precision Cardiology Platform for early diagnosis at the community level

  • Established collaboration with NHS St George's Hospital, British Heart Foundation, Heart Valve Voice, and Harley Street Clinic

  • Product Development; Patent Derisking & Global filing

Entrepreneur First and SOSV HAX

Founder-in-Residence at LD20

(Apr 2022 - Present)

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Founder-in-Residence

  • Selected from 1000+ applicants to join EF’s program to find a co-founder and build a [DeepTech] company from scratch

  • 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)

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Co-founder & CTO

  • Directed the R&D team to develop a Neurobiomarker platform for predicting treatment response in neuropsychiatry

  • Developed partnerships with European Biopharma, Imperial College London, Martijn Arns at Brainclinics, & Stephen Faraone

  • Acquired access to and analyzed over 10,000 subject EEG data for normative & predictive modeling using Deep Conv-Transformers

  • 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 )

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ML & DS Research Engineer Consultant

  • 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)

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Assistant Director of ML and DS

  • Analyzing and extracting rs-fMRI whole-brain networks to compose Eloquent Cortex Mapping (ECM) for surgical planning

  • Directing the R&D team to design and build an end-to-end neuroimaging pipeline for brain tumor analysis

  • Building an automated end-to-end pipeline for multimodal neuroimaging analysis for presurgical planning

  • 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)

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Lead ML Engineer

  • Analyzed rs-fMRI scans using DPABI, and designed & built interpretable ensemble ML models to classify within neuropsychiatric & neurodegenerative disorder

  • Designed and Assembled an automated python-based rs-fMRI preprocessing pipeline for clinical research use

  • Supervised a team of interns to build ML models to analyze sleep and motion pattern changes from smartphone data

  • Scientific grant writing; Scientific research paper writing

Neuromatch Academy

Lead TA

(Jun 2021 - Jul 2023)

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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)

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Research Intern

Working with Dr. Sunil V Kalmady on Mathematical modeling of Individualized Survival Distribution

AI Without Borders

ML Engineer

(Mar 2019 - Jun 2019)

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ML Engineer

Built and optimized an automated system for delineating Invasive ductal carcinoma from histopathology slides using CNN models

Other Research Projects

  1. Spike Sorting Pipeline using SpikeInterface - Hussaini Lab (May 2021)

  2. Survival Analysis using Stage 4 Stomach Cancer Dataset - UofAlberta (April 2021)

  3. Personalized large-scale brain network modeling in Mild Alzheimer's Disease - Petra Ritter Course (Dec 2020 - Feb 2021)
    Team Mates: Sudeshna bora

  4. 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

  5. Detecting Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC) using Breast Histopathology Images Patches - AI Without Borders (Mar - Jun 2020)