Building in AI, informatics, neuro, and biotech. Currently founder and principal at Saturna Tech.

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I work in scientific research and engineering for AI, informatics, neuro, and biotech. Rapid advances in these fields are creating significant opportunities to synergistically expand our scientific understanding and meet human health needs through technology. I hope to accelerate this progress through research and product development to benefit people's health and well-being.

I founded Saturna Tech to accelerate technology for early-stage companies and research labs in AI, informatics, biotech, and neuro, and also to pursue my own independent research and product development. At Blueprint Bryan Johnson, I owned technical strategy, built an engineering team, and led their work across four consumer product verticals for health optimization. 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 was a research professor at the USC Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, where I worked on developing and applying computational tools for neuroimaging with MRI and microscopy.

I enjoy sharing my work through open source software, e.g. my Quantitative Imaging Toolkit, and through scientific publishing, having authored 70+ papers in biomedical imaging, neuroscience, and machine learning. You can also find some of thoughts and ideas shared on my blog. My work has been recognized by the CZI, from whom I received their Imaging Scientist award to support my scientific research, and I regularly contribute to scientific projects funded by NIH and NSF.

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Founder & Principal at Saturna Tech (current)
CTO at Blueprint Bryan Johnson
Staff ML Engineer at ArteraAI & PathAI
Research Assistant Professor at INI, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Imaging Scientist
Creator and Lead Developer of the Quantitative Imaging Toolkit
Computer Science PhD from Brown University
Engineering & Applied Science BSc from Caltech

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 & compliance.

ai+machine-learning

Extensive work in computer vision, biomedical AI, and LLMs. Experience from research prototypes to production systems at scale, including MLOps and model deployment.

data+informatics

Built end-to-end data engineering and informatics platforms, pipelines, advanced statistical modeling, and visualization / dashboards for insight and decision making.

system-design+devops

Architecting distributed systems using cloud infrastructure on AWS with databases, message queues, caching layers, IaC, etc. Experience with high-traffic web and mobile apps.

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, addressing inter-scanner variability, and visualizing data.

neuroscience+biomedicine

Scientific research across brain disorders including dementia, stroke, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, as well as brain aging and development, especially using neuroimaging.